I have told them how the measure of leaving his own barren land – barren of peoples – and coming to a new land where life of man teems till they are like the multitude of standing corn, was the work of centuries.
– Bram Stoker
Dracula, Chapter 24. Van Helsing explains Dracula’s motivation for leaving Transvlvania for England. He is leaving a country with few people to feed on for a place where life is flourishing and just waiting for a vampire like him to prey upon.