Up to 1 in 3 voters say they will leave the U.S. if their candidate does not win the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reality<\/strong>: Almost no one will leave, and those that do, already had immigration privileges and their dedication to the U.S. was never that strong anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today’s silly news story: These Americans Say They\u2019ll Move Abroad if Their Candidate Loses – The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The very first anecdote is someone eligible for dual citizenship in Germany! Hah hah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2nd one – a real estate developer – is probably looking at an investment visa, available to the wealthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 3rd example is a transgender related couple who already moved to Vietnam – notably, they appeared in a prior story by the paper. Thus, they are not “going to move” – they already left!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The 4th one is a doctor, who had already moved to B.C. <\/em>(Doctors, especially, have easy access to move to most countries – unlike everyone else.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Refreshingly, this story notes the problem: “It\u2019s relatively easy to vacation abroad as an American, but obtaining residency in another country<\/a> is far more complicated<\/em><\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another one – these people are weird: If Trump wins, I’ll leave America for Europe \u2013 but my husband will stay behind<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Update<\/strong>: Another story on this topic: Record numbers of wealthy Americans are making plans to leave the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n A survey by Arton Capital, which advises the wealthy on immigration programs, found that 53% of American millionaires say they\u2019re more likely to leave the U.S. after the election, no matter who wins. Younger millionaires were the most likely to leave, with 64% of millionaires between 18 and 29 saying they were \u201cvery interested\u201d in seeking so-called golden visas through a residency-by-investment program overseas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The media is going wild with this theme – just in the week (mostly) before the 2024 national election:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first link says 1 in 5 Americans want to move to Canada. Reminder – an estimated 2-3% of Americans are living abroad at any point in time, and perhaps half of these are temporary – including work assignments, military assignments, and study abroad. Between 0.7% and 1.2% of retirees live abroad, with over 1\/3d of those in either Canada or Mexico – about half retired abroad because they had family connections or they had long established ties to the country, such as working in Canada for years and owning a home, etc, prior to retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And finally – Canada has instituted new restrictions on inbound immigration and is prohibiting the purchase of real estate by anyone not already having permanent residency status in Canada! Hah! But all those Americans still think they are going to move to Canada!<\/p>\n\n\n\n As the election nears, the media runs more stories about how everyone will move abroad depending on the outcome. Pro tip: Real estate will apparently become really cheap in 2025!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-regulatory","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121","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=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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