In fact International Living has articles about Americans living happily close to Quito. I blame the rats for enticing these people with "the roads are paved with gold" ideas. Although, as long as the rats and GOPe are in charge I guess this isn't completely wrong.
Also, I saw a NumbersUSA video a few years back and they clearly showed the folly in trying to import the world. It was fairly frightening.
It is not bad if you have a US income. On the other hand if you are a national and protest the eco-nuts that are ruining the economy and taking away your job they throw you in jail for eight years.
All four of my grandparents heard that, in America, the streets are paved with gold, and all four of them made their way here between 1904 and 1914. Had they not, they and their children would have perished in the Holocaust and I never would have been born.