Neal Freiman

deported 675,000 people last year, while 2.2 million others self-deported, per the Department of Homeland Security.

But that doesn't reflect a broader trend of Americans' own citizens heading to foreign shores.

While comprehensive stats on out-migration are difficult to come by, residence permits, home purchases, and student enrollment analyzed by the Journal indicate that American citizens are heading overseas in record numbers.

When surveyed by the Journal on why they're leaving America,

Expats cited a buffet of reasons, lower health care and education costs abroad, safety in the wake of school shootings, distaste for Trump's chaotic politics and the search for a better quality of life.

And what do you make of this great American exodus?

Yeah, they call the University of St.

Andrews mini Nantucket, actually.

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I do know a lot of Americans that did go there, but the March across the Atlantic is pretty staggering.

How many Americans are moving to Europe?

The total number of Americans living in Portugal is up more than 500% since the COVID pandemic in the past 10 years, the number of American residents has nearly doubled in Spain and the Netherlands.

There are now more natural born Americans living in Norway than Norwegian born residents in the United States.

Maybe they want to get really good at cross country skiing.

And then last year, more Americans moved to Germany.

then Germans moved to America.

The one stat that I thought that shocked me but may not shock people is what cohort of people is really driving this trend.

And it's young American women.

A Gallup poll last year found 40% of American women aged 15 to 44 would like to permanently move overseas.

And now by comparison, in 2023, nearly as many Sub-Saharan Africans, 37%, they are living in the poorest part of the world, wanted to do the same.