Joe Parkinson
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207 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
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Our job is to travel around, normally finding the big stories that are happening across the world that Americans are interested in.
Sometimes the most appealing stories you almost miss because they're hiding in plain sight.
This story is about, in a way, challenging some of the foundational ideas of America and its story as a country of immigration.
It just kind of blew my mind.
But hidden within that is another story, which is perhaps more surprising and perhaps even has a longer historical impact.
And that is that more Americans are choosing to leave of their own volition, natural-born Americans.
But the prototype of Americans who used to move was, to be honest, a kind of profile of the well-credentialed, well-educated professional worker who was perhaps posted overseas or maybe had made money and wanted to retire overseas.
That profile has now been completely shattered, completely turned on its head.
It's young families.
It's younger people.
It's not just people from the coasts.
It's people from the Midwest and people from the South.
You don't have to look very hard to find them.
So I was doing the reporting for this piece and there's an area of central Lisbon where there's an American supermarket.
So I go into the supermarket and there was a guy there who was like handling this huge like jar of ranch dressing.
The number of Americans leaving is rising so fast that there's a whole kind of subsector of the economy that's growing to try and cater to their needs.
And a bunch of relocation companies have sprouted up.
And a lot of them have a branding that caters to a particular demographic.
It's not like the American influx is a uniformly positive, welcomed, you know, dynamic across Europe.
It's becoming increasingly controversial because Europe's suffering from a similar cost of living crisis, particularly in housing.
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