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But to explore further on the angle you and Dan D opened and show the OP to be completely false.
Take your average townland in a village on the West Coast.
Removing of course all the French Germans and Americans who fled their local poverty in their homeland to move to the bleak wastelands of the Connemara Gaeltacht, looking only at the locals you see that some have local wealth, others have local poverty, then you have the variety of locals wealth which came from Nairobi, Aberdeen, Jedda, Singapore, Sydney, Osaka, Dusseldorf, Utrecht, Boston, NY, Toronto, Wellington, London, Cardiff, Durban, Alexandria, Mumbai.......
Migration is a two way street and has about as many reasons as there are migrants.