People Swapping

In my younger days I was very keen on living in the UK. Scotland mainly, but I like the rest of it as well. My family trace back there from most sides, and I felt a strong connection. Ultimately, even after marrying a Brit, I couldn’t stay there and had to leave 

It especially bothered me that many Brits wanted to live in Australia/NZ.

Surely rather than having an unhappy Kiwi and an unhappy Pom, they could swap places and be in the country they prefer? Wouldn’t that benefit everyone?

Why not have an international swap register, where people who otherwise wouldn’t qualify for residency or citizenship could swap places with another person?

I could imagine it working very well between Australia & NZ and the USA, because neither country is represented much in the other…

Alternatively we could expand the AU/NZ arrangement by allowing free migration between Australia and Canada, on a trial basis. Both countries are quite similar, and the uptake should be similar in each direction.