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Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.
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No borders but damn, you have to support your local antifa if you have left your fellows alone
Where would I go if I migrated away? Most of the world is falling into authoritarianism as the child protection laws and the attempts to effectively ban OpenPGP encryption have proven. Not only that, most of us Americans only know English and a bit of Spanish (if even that).
So, even if I moved away and abandoned my friends and family to face the fascist wolves without me, then I’d only be delaying the inevitable. I’d only encourage you to move away if you’re trans, but otherwise we must hold the line here no matter how tempting it is to move away from it.
Most of the world? No. You just need to do more research. But yes, moving abroad is hard and offersno guarantees.
Why should I leave? They’re the ones who suck
Same reason conservatives don’t want conservative women.
They don’t want something that fits their interests and opinions.
They want to beat and conquer something that thinks differently from them, and mold them into something that is subservient to their interest and opinions.
there’s at least 200 other countries that are at least as shitty as christo-fascists wish this one were. WHY CANT THEY MOVE.
Because those countries don’t have football and Hooters.
I think you’re being extremely generous to America here. Not to mention there’s not 200 other countries in the world.
Does this number reflect only people who left by choice, or does it also include those who have been deported? The composition of this group would be interesting to see.
Trump has deported fewer people than Biden (I think? Definitely fewer than Obama) so, even if it did include people being deported, it still wouldn’t change the takeaway as far as I can see: Americans are willingly getting the fuck out in record numbers.
Unless you’re focusing on the “all the way back to the Great Depression” part more than recent history.
Also mandatory “fuck Donald Trump” disclaimer, my point isn’t that he’s better than Biden or Obama. If anything my point is that they’re all the same where it counts.
Trump has deported fewer people than Biden
I don’t think we know those numbers, and may never know. He’s disappearing people to other countries without tracking them. Why do you think this is true?
Trump hides the numbers because they’re short of his stated goal of 1 million deportations per year or whatever. Part of the reason he’s deporting fewer people, despite plainly more aggressive / unhinged tactics, is because fewer people are coming into the US because both of them made it more of a shithole. Why do you think he wouldn’t put his name on something “huge” and “bigger than Biden” if he could?
If ı would get a job offer with 100k$ ,I would still not consider on USA
100k isn’t that much money over here.
100k USD barely anything in a big city.
Man how you guys leaving? I’d love to leave
emigrated to Spain in 23, took a remote job and was able to finangle a visa through their DNV
Many Americans are, ironically, moving to Mexico.
And often (but of course not always) bringing gentrification and white supremacy bullshit with them.
You must be kidding.
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A recent bill in Canada restored Canadian citizenship to thousands of people living abroad. I’m helping my friend move to Canada and giving her a place to live after she claims her citizenship. After she stays here three years, all her children get the same opportunity to claim citizenship. Am I operating an Underground Railroad?!
I feel people tend to forget that Canada almost voted in a Trump clone.
Ontario is governed by a Trump clone, as is Alberta.
Like, things can be bad in different ways. It’s not meaningful to describe every corrupt politician as a Trump clone, Trump didn’t invent sucking.
Oh, we’ve commonly elected people just as evil as Trump. So have the Americans. Just not as stupid. Meanwhile, we threw away our pretense of “rule of law” at the Toronto G20 in 2010 just so Harper could impress China, and no following government ever did a damn thing about it.
But if you’re talking about the last election, it was not even close, there was no “almost” about it.
Doug Ford is far dumber than Trump.
Is that a “fuck trumpism with blood as the lube” “no almost” or an “all aboard the fascism-train” “no almost”? (I’m still ignorant on CN politics)
There was no Trump-like candidate that had a chance in hell in the last Federal election. It was a historic loss for the conservatives.
Trump saying that he was going to take Canada over probably did Canada a favor. It’s hard to say the US is going in the right direction. with a far right, autocrat in power. Your conservatives can’t emulate that then.
It might help home prices a bit. I mean, there’s not much we can hope for in this world anymore but affordable housing would be cool.
Not if private equity keeps buying up the houses 🥲
We could disincentivise that if we actually had any sway on policy.
Rich muricans are leaving the US, most can barely leave the state.
MASSIVE EXODUS!
single digit change in migration patterns
It’s pure hysterical clickbait. The far more newsworthy headline would be about people declining to immigrate to the US, as the Feds add more and more foreign nations to its shit list. Very obvious that Trump (by way of Steven Miller) wants the US to be Whites Only.
But they idea that people are leaving in droves requires you to believe that’s a viable option for anyone.
Why would the rich leave? Don’t they benefit from Trumps policies like tax breaks and stuff? Or do you just mean the moderately ‘normal’ rich people with ‘only’ 6-figure incomes?
Why would the rich leave?
Because they can afford to escape the bedlam. Nobody wants to be in Minneapolis right now. Nevermind LA, Portland, or Charlotte.
If you’ve got enough money to put up in a hotel for a month or friendly relatives in another state to crash with, it sounds far preferable to dealing with ICE agents clogging your streets and ramming your car. Doubly so if you’re living in the US on a temporary or revocable permit. Who is holding a Student Visa or Green Card that feels safe in any of these cities right now? They’re snatching neuroscience students out of Columbia University student dorms, ffs.
The super-rich are right at home, yeah.
Yeah, this isn’t cheap at all. It’s either a huge chunk of money up front or you have to uproot and move your family only taking what you can afford to the next country, a huge upheaval, with probably no support network at all where you move to. Ans that’s just residency, you’re not a citizen until you’ve put in years and meet whatever citizenship requirements.
I think my plan B if I get laid off is to cash out everything and flee. Not too sure where, but I don’t have a lot of hope with the current administration or job market.
Americans are immigrating to other countries, they just like to call themselves X-Pats® because they think immigrant is a dirty word
I’m going to be a pedant and say they are emigrating to other countries.
E.g. Fewer people are immigrating to the US as it speed runs fascism. Many Americans, however, are emigrating to other countries.
Emigrate is to leave ones country to live in another, immigrate is to come to a country to live.
Many said people are moving to avoid this type of narrow minded perspective from others in the US… Educated folks know anti-immigration is a tactic of emotional control by the ruling class.
And yapping on twitter complaining about the locals and missing their life back home. #TakeMeBack
No, no! They are “replanting themselves and their families”.
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My husband and I are moving to Mérida, Yucatán, México in April. We don’t feel safe in Los Angeles anymore. And despite all the stuff going on in Mexico, Mérida is one of the safest cities in all the Americas.
I’m in the PV area. Trust me “all the stuff going on in Mexico” was a brief temper tantrum that lasted a few hours and some cars were burned after the head guy was taken out. Despite what English media wants to tell you, Mexico is safer today than it was before the events of Sunday.
Thanks for sharing, and that’s good to hear. My husband was saying stuff was being blown out of proportion on US news outlets, too.
Beautiful place to nice to tbh, what would be your monthly total expenses be moving to Mexico vs America?
I think comparing those relatively their respective median wages makes the more sense
beyond that, mksg monthly expenses I see don’t ammortize the costs of buying stuff like phones and other consuemer eletronics and/or appliances which are unfortanely a necessity that one day will to be replaced
They’re fleeing
Wish I could leave. This is going to get bad …
You got to have a way to do it though. You either have to have a job already lined up or you have to be under 30 so you could work some crappy job for 2 years or you have to be independently wealthy. The average Joe working at the Ford factory isn’t going to be going anywhere anytime soon.
The average Joe working at the Ford factory
That isn’t the average Joe though, not by a long shot.
The average is the average Joan working as a cashier.
Personne peut me messager avec un boulot français au sud de la France (ou Paris). Je voudrais y évader toute suite. Chuis biologiste, et chevalier professionnellement.
I mean I would if my support system didn’t have serious roots here.
If I was single you bet I would.
But being married with children it’s a lot harder to do that.
I actually left the US because I have kids - I didn’t want them growing up there, or with the trouble we saw coming years ago.
I agree. I’m in the same boat. I would make the point though that if you emigrate somewhere else, you’re going to have to leave behind a lot of comfort. That includes your support systems. Without wads of cash you will have to endure living in conditions you don’t want to. You will have to struggle more than you think is reasonable.
We are just not uncomfortable enough yet to take that leap.
I totally get that, but we are married with a child and living very far away from any traditional support system (in a different country than either of our families). It’s certainly tough, especially missing out on the free child care that everyone around us seems to be enjoying, but honestly it’s not that bad, and even has some of its own benefits.
