{"id":6823,"date":"2026-05-18T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=6823"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:52:54","slug":"the-myth-everyone-is-leaving-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2026\/05\/18\/the-myth-everyone-is-leaving-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"The myth: Everyone is leaving the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/17\/americans-are-leaving-the-united-states-in-record-numbers-spending-hundreds-to-learn-how.html\">Americans are spending hundreds to learn how to leave the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">89% say they wish to leave the US for &#8220;political reasons&#8221;. Which implies they do not like democracy when the electorate chooses policies differing from their preferred policies. Indeed, one of the story&#8217;s anecdotal subjects says he might stay depending on the outcome of the next election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imagine a country where the citizens are so privileged they can just move to another at each election result. Amazing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reminder<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An estimated 1.6% of Americans live abroad at any point in time, which is close to zero percent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 40% of Americans who live abroad are living in Mexico or Canada. About 20% are living in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 2\/3ds of those who move abroad do so because they (a) had prior dual citizenship, (b) have a right of descent ancestry privilege &#8211; notably Italy, Ireland and now Canada, or (c) they are an educated American woman who married a foreigner (one of the largest categories).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An estimated 1.0% (+\/-) of Americans retire abroad and about half of those had prior close connections to the destination country (prior dual citizenship, family living there already and a right of descent residency privilege, or, they were working abroad in the country and chose to retire where they already own their home).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elite, privileged Americans say they will leave the U.S. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-immigration","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823","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=6823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6824,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions\/6824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}