{"id":2730,"date":"2024-02-13T15:42:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T23:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2024-02-13T16:12:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T00:12:54","slug":"large-percent-of-americans-say-they-will-move-abroad-depending-on-next-national-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/02\/13\/large-percent-of-americans-say-they-will-move-abroad-depending-on-next-national-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Large percent of Americans say they will move abroad depending on next national election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hilarious: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/american-relocation-post-election\/\">Survey: Where Americans are Relocating Post-Election (casino.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reality check: Most Americans will not be able to move abroad. To move abroad you need:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>To have right of descent ancestry in your destination country (your are a descendant of an immigrant)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You need to marry someone from the destination country<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be young and have in-demand job skills that warrant the hose country issuing a residency visa; related, earn an university degree in the destination country, having studied on a student visa.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be rich and buy your way in.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And learn the local language: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/02\/07\/struggling-to-learn-the-language-the-best-expat-countries-in-europe-for-english-speakers\">France ups language level for residency: Here are the best European countries for English speakers | Euronews<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond that, immigration to other countries is very hard and often impossible for most Americans. But the media peddles a fantasy that Americans can easily move abroad whenever they want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For lots more on that topic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/09\/04\/the-media-myth-that-americans-can-just-move-abroad-for-a-better-life\/\">Part 1: The myth that Americans can just move abroad for a better life \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/12\/29\/part-2-the-myth-that-americans-just-pack-up-and-move-abroad\/\">Part 2: The myth that Americans can easily move abroad \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilarious &#8211; a huge number of Americans say they may move abroad depending on next election outcome. Reality: Most will be unable to move abroad due to visa requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}