The point-based system will stop new migrants coming to Germany for the following reasons, 1. Extremely high income-tax bracket. 2. Language barrier. 3. Cultural differences, unwillingness & inability to accept ex-pats by natives. Given the facts that most immigrants countries like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the UK have are from Asia, for instance, India, China, and Philipine etc. Young talents from those countries would have much fewer difficulties in language-related issues when considering migrating to English speaking countries and it is simply not worthy to spend another 3 years on learning a new language which only spoken by a very small portion of the world. On top of this, cultural wisely, Germans are much less likely to tolerate other NON-EU nationals in terms of their own customs, values and ways of life. From my own experience of living in Berlin for a year and a half, sometimes, the cultural environment could become just too hostile to bear. One sad example is my 4-year-old boy was told to leave the playground for not speaking German. Last but not least, life quality is another challenge for people who have lived in those English Speaking countries. Honestly speaking, the only 2 things relatively cheaper in Germany are food and 0-4-year-olds daycare. However, when being grateful about the unreasonably high income-tax granting some free medical benefits, please don't forget, a 40-50% of your family total income that is taxed by the government can also pay most of the bills by yourself, plus, correct me if I am wrong, the medical benefit only applies to one's family when the income meets some criteria, which in New Zealand, that is totally free to every citizen and residents. Therefore, as one of the ex-pats and migrants myself, we are leaving and maybe only missing the friends here but definitely not the country.