{"id":3723,"date":"2024-08-13T07:15:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T14:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2025-09-22T22:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:24:38","slug":"34-of-americans-say-they-want-to-move-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/08\/13\/34-of-americans-say-they-want-to-move-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"34% of Americans say they want to move abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hah hah: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/2024\/07\/07\/americans-moving-abroad-politics\/74286772007\/\">Moving to another country because of politics? More Americans weigh it (usatoday.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly zero percent will actually move abroad, because they cannot do so. The first anecdotal story is of a couple, with money, who&#8217;ve bought their way into citizenship in Antigua and Barbados &#8211; because they suffer anxiety mental illness over politics. Another anecdotal story is a guy who is moving to South Africa &#8211; <em>as his wife is, in fact, from South Africa and a citizen there<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every person quoted says they have or will leave the U.S. because of conservative political views and Trump. The story is a political hit piece pretending to be about Americans moving abroad. Every example for moving is because democracy sometimes elects a leader with differing views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Reminder &#8211; just 2% of American live abroad at any point in time and about 1% of Americans retire abroad, with up to half of those already having prior dual citizenship, or right of ancestry residency\/citizenship options, or close family living in the destination country. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on data and stories here is what you need to emigrate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Have a pre-existing dual citizenship<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Have a right of descent ancestry that entitles you to residency or citizenship in another country<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be an attractive young woman (90% of the marriage category) and marry a foreigner; marriage is the single largest category of those who move abroad, based on a review of about 400 media stories published from mid 2023 to summer of 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be young and have the right work skills (typically STEM or health care)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be wealthy and buy an investment residency visa in another country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are not on that list, you can&#8217;t move to most countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 34% of Americans say they want to move abroad. Hah hah. Won&#8217;t happend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}