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The original was posted on /r/askhistorians by /u/-Mamba- on 2023-08-25 02:22:15+00:00.

When the people in the Western half became pretty aware that their state was in undeniable decline, why wasn’t there a mass movement of people settling into the part of the empire that was still going strong? Did they just think Roman control would eventually come back?