List four pull factors that attract people to urban areas in Low Income Countries.

Population from low-income countries tends to migrate to high-income countries because of different factors:

-They offer a better lifestyle.

-They offer better studies also, it is where you can easily seek highly qualified education. 

-They offer better work in urban areas, which will bring in more income. This emigration of highly qualified workers to richer countries is called "brain drain".

-The person could also emigrate because of violence, discrimination or war from the country the person is from.

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