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There is basically nobody who leaves because of a high level of immigration. Its either people who welcome immigrants or ones that will fight tooth and nail to have immigrants everywhere but their country. They will try to get them deported but not leave their own country cause that very flawed logic itself also prevents them from assimilating to other cultures. The national budget on the other hand is fucked because of reckless and unbalanced spending rather than immigrants, spain for example functions because of immigrants. Look at the stark contrast between portugal and spain, one just "deals" with immigration, the other thrives with immigration. The economy is shit in every single country basically so you cant really blame it on immigrants when countries with 0%, 1% and 30% immigrant populations are being hit equally. For fucks sake theres a war in ukraine, gaza and iran, all of which contribute to this and all of which are completely unnecessary. The immigration crisis from syria is also kinda the wests fault but thats a different discussion. I cant really comment on such domestic issues cause i dont have that much insight but from what i hear, the social contract is mainly "failing"(putting that in quotes because you make it sound like theres a better alternative) in the areas of public transit and public builings, havent heard of very large problems with the healthcare other than overdiagnosis(this is something a german doctor friend said, once again not my own experience). Overdoagnosis being a problem where doctors follow precedures 1 to 1 and test for a million different things that dont really affect you and the treatment often causes more harm. Of course this is not about cancer and such but rarer, "less important" diseases.
The fax and nuclear reactors are were/are horrible decisions but i dont think thats something that would effect emmigration so directly. In general germany should modernise, but this is true for every sector in germany and also in general for every european country without the exception of like estonia.
As for the low/no skill argument, brother, you are either stupid af or racist. Most syrian immigrants(and others from the middle east and tbf the rest of the world) who came to europe used to have means and education. The ones who could escape syria often were the better off ones with companies and degrees. Its enough to spend like 2 seconds with any immigrant and all of them are doctors and entrepreneurs and whatever but they had to leave their life in the middle east cause they were escaping from a fucking war. Doctors licenses from the middle east are not valid in europe. I know nurses who sell doughnuts and doctors who had to redo their whole university education(6+ years) to be able to practition in europe. The only people spreading the "low skill" argument are people who are racists or the ones who believe and follow the racists.