The article does not mention this fact because it's not true: http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=nl&v=27. The net migration rate merely stopped growing.
I thought it was a widely held "fact" that the NL is overcrowded and that dutchmen should try to find their lebensraum elsewhere.
It's a pity though, cause the metaphorical meaning of living "room" is precisely what I meant.
Sometimes bordering on (self-) censorship. So that caution is not necessarily a good thing.
I agree that one should be careful when using emotionally charged words, but I also think that playful usage might be a way out of the self-censorship that surrounds a great many dreadful historical events. Not just in Germany.
It's easy to imagine the Netherlands having the same problem. Of course, emigrating to a less dense country is an easier solution.
Modern Germany is dense, yes. But guess what: People are migrating en masse from states like Saxony-Anhalt (118 inhabitants/km²) to Baden-Württemberg (301 inhabitants/km²).
[1] In quotation marks, because there was no state called Germany back then.
http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/local_news/why-are-they-all-...
"In 2004 almost 50,000 people born in the Netherlands decided to leave and live in a foreign country. Since 1954, the number of emigrants has never been so high. The Dutch economy, with the exception of the early 1980s, has never been so poor since 1954.
The Netherlands is undergoing the longest period of stagnation in two generations, according to the latest statistics from the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis."