Drew Hinshaw

You can do a lot of jobs from just about anywhere and people are realizing, hey, I can afford a life across the Atlantic that I can't afford anymore in the U.S.,

It was really the first year since 1935 when more people moved out than moved in.

A big part of that was deportation.

600,000 people deported.

Another 2,400,000 residents of the US decided to leave.

We heard the same things over and over again.

People realized that they could just live much nicer on an American salary overseas.

They could afford housing and health care and education that increasingly felt out of reach in the U.S.

They left because they liked walkable cities and cobblestone old capitals in Europe.

Last year, more Americans moved to Germany than Germans moved to America for the first time in years.

The same was true in Ireland.

In Norway, there are now more Americans living in Norway than Norwegians living in America.

That's a really symbolic milestone.

This is, after all, a country of immigration that has historically brought in more people than it sends out year after year after year for centuries.

And yet here in our 250th year, we are seeing something that's really not like the U.S.

And the reasons for that are complicated.

They're not simple to reduce to a handy kind of political point, but it's definitely unusual.

And it's changing cities and countries that are on the receiving end of this really interesting wave of American immigrants.

Back in October, at a beautiful waterfront home in Florida, three men quietly came together to try and end a war.

These men were trying to draft a plan to end the long and deadly conflict between Russia and Ukraine.