You could field a 16-inch softball league with the celebrities who’ve threatened to leave the United States if their presidential pick wasn’t elected in recent years.
What’s more striking today is that it isn’t only the Hollywood set floating the idea of relocating. Increasing numbers of ordinary Americans — especially younger women — say they’re thinking about moving abroad, not because of a single election outcome but because they doubt the country’s direction, economic prospects and social climate.
That shift should worry all of us.
For the second year, about one in five Americans indicated they’d like to move abroad permanently if given the option, according to Gallup. Their data uncovered that this spiking trend is being driven primarily by younger women between the ages of 15 and 44.
Among that group, a stunning 40% said they’d leave the U.S., compared with just 10% a decade ago. These aren’t people who’ve actually left, of course — but their interest itself is telling. Gallup notes the same phenomenon isn’t playing out in other advanced economies.