Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (www.wsj.com)
from FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 19:02
https://sh.itjust.works/post/56013908

cross-posted from: piefed.social/…/americans-are-leaving-the-u-s-in-…

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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umbrella@lemmy.ml on 27 Feb 19:51 next collapse

we should deny them visas to escape the hell they created just like they deny ours.

i doubt they are sending their best. i think it’s a plot for them to take over our jobs, really.

oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Feb 20:01 next collapse

Just let me leave this shitty country asshole

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 27 Feb 20:51 collapse

likewise.

Sineljora@sh.itjust.works on 27 Feb 20:19 next collapse

Agreed. Try not to think of us as people. Think of us as Americans.

hperrin@lemmy.ca on 27 Feb 21:14 collapse

You doubt that it’s the best that want to get the fuck out of this hellhole? You think it’s college educated productive people who want to stay under Trump’s tyranny and not the inbred hillbillies?

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 27 Feb 21:56 collapse

i see it’s pretty awful when it’s done to you. we should probably violently deport you and send you to concentration camps in our borders and shit.

maybe we could do it for decades now that you want to leave!

smeg@infosec.pub on 27 Feb 20:37 collapse

🙋‍♂️ I left in 2025. It’s great! Walkable and bikeable cities, affordable groceries, my health insurance actually pays for stuff, there’s public transit, the food is safer, and not absolutely every I do funnels into only 12 companies.

I moved my family. When my kid needs higher education, it won’t cost more than our home. I can send him out in the streets without worrying he’ll be hit by a truck going 80. Active shooter or intruder drills aren’t a phenomenon in his school.

I only wish we could have done it sooner.