Neal Freiman

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.

And now this is another fun stat.

What was the last time I said since the Great Depression is the last time that more people left the United States than came?

Well, this was in 1935.

This is the last time more people left the U.S.

than moved in.

And where they were going might surprise you.

The biggest destination in 1935 was the Soviet Union.

More than 100,000 Americans applied to work in tractor plants, steel plants, factories of the Soviet Union, and they were playing baseball over there in Moscow.

Very interesting trend.

It looks like it's only going to accelerate as we head into 2026 and 2027.

All right, up next, I'm not sure this next bit of news will keep people from fleeing America, but it is a start.

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