It could be better because the "failing" you described is a very different set of problems than those coming with large immigration. Just look at Western Europe, Sweden or Paris to see how bad things could go in only a few decades. I would totally prefer living in a more dire economic state rather than "adapting" my lifestyle to the immigrants (which is sadly already the case in my country and that includes extensive airport-like checking at a lot of place because of terror attacks, amongst other things).
