I’m afraid stats on this would not be easy to find. 5 years down the line there may be some cites. (Not that I’d know how to post it).
I think, in my pea brain that experience with overseas travel and knowledge of the area you’re considering might be a good thing.
Really nice if you have family and friends there.
Of course, employment or a trust fund is important. I think the financial impact is detrimental to a person being happy.
You not about to be happy if you’re hungry and in need.
I’m not going anywhere, my personal experience with over seas travel, matters not at all.
I know moving from state to state(military brat) is hard on the whole family. Its impact ranks right after a death in the family.
I’ll invent some data. It’s clear if 100 people decide “Holy crap, I gotta get outta this place!” 5 might actually look into it. Of that five, 2 might make a real effort. 1 might go on a tentative trip. And, may go back for an extended stay.
After they’ve lived there 5 years and taken steps to change citizenship, I’ll consider them moved.
Talk is cheap. If you’re gonna go, well, go. Go in good health. I’m behind you 100%.
I don’t have a realistic way to leave, even though I’d like to. I’m not old enough or monetarily prepared for retirement, so no way to get some kind of retirement visa somewhere. I’m also way too old (and too many health problems) to be considered for citizenship in most English-speaking countries. There’s no spouse or relative who could sponsor me and no enticing, in-demand skills on my part. So I’m kind of stuck.
I’d like to at least get out of Texas - I have nightmares of the US dissolving into individual fiefdoms and being trapped here and not allowed to leave eventually. Even that is a tall order that would take me years to prepare to move to another state. I still need to work for a long, long time yet.
Just want to say that if one of your parents or grandparents were born in Ireland, you were a citizen of Ireland when you were born. There’s a Foreign Birth registry you have to join, then you can get a passport and live and work without restriction/sponsorship in most of Europe.
I got mine in 2008 and it wasn’t to flee the tyranny of W/Cheney. I left for Ireland in 2015 before Trump announced what was then a laughable run for President.
I reckon most Irish descendants may know this, yet might be good to know for some.
I’m always a bit mad about that. When my grandmother was born in Saskatchewan in 1915, she and the Ireland-born Irish had the same status: Irish by “race” (ethnicity), but British by nationality (British Subjects).
Alas, by the time we hit the 21st century, she was a Canadian citizen with zero rights to Irish anything (since all of her grandparents were also Canadian-born).
I haven’t yet taken advantage of my maternal grandmother’s origins in County Kerry, but I still could, and gain Irish citizenship. And I’m widowed at the moment (and thus, unattached).
Ironically, my wife from St. Petersburg was able to join me with less difficulty in the UK because of some Brexit oddities than if I’d remained in Dublin. So there’s no quicker path to Irish citizenship for non-EU foreigners.
She’s coming up on five years and residency - the downside being she’ll still need a Shengen visa to go to some parts of the EU and entirely separate visas for other parts.
One of the many things that irks me about Nigel Farage - one of the biggest proponents of Brexit - almost instantly got himself and his family Irish passports.
Selfishly, I’m a middle class cishet white man. I’m going to be fine (probably).
But we need to adopt the tactics abolitionists used. The democrats are far too spineless to be competent opposition against fascism. The abolitionists knew how to fight.
I’ll be voting in primaries and in every election I can. I’ll donate money to groups I believe in. If I end up on juries where people are charged for crimes of resisting fascism, I’ll vote not guilty. If there is other productive, useful things I can do I’d be open to doing them too.
But I don’t think its going to get as bad as Nazi Germany. maybe that makes me naive, but I think the worst it’ll get (worst case scenario) is maybe Hungary under Orban. Hungary currently scores a 65/100 on personal freedoms. By comparison the US is an 83. It was a 94/100 back before the GOP won lots of races in 2010 and started enacting voter suppression and gerrymandering.
Worst case scenario, IMO, is the US becomes a hybrid autocracy/democracy like a latin American nation. We won’t become a full on dictatorship. The law and justice party in Poland has been trying to turn that nation into a dictatorship for years and they still score an 80/100.
But I’ve been wrong before. MAGA would love for the US to become a full dictatorship if they could, and the enablers who vote alongside them aren’t any better.
Anyway, I’d rather stay and fight. But I’ve encouraged my nieces to leave the country.
Under Trump, that 83 score will slide even further. I’m in the same boat as you, as I am not in the demographic that MAGA currently is targeting. But we will all suffer. It’s bad enough that immigrants and lgbtq are now being targeted. MAGA is firing people who they think are DEI hires in government. The free press is under attack by bogus lawsuits. States that don’t “comply” with Trump’s view on things like transgender athletes will be targeted. There will likely be rollbacks in the ease of voting. Public universities will be dismantled if they have even a whiff of DEI in them.
And then what happens in January, 2029 if a Dem wins POTUS in 2028? At that point, it will probably be the final potential tipping point on whether or not we’re a nominal democracy or a full-on dictatorship.
Poland has reversed the slide lately, as their “law and justice” party was defeated in 2023. This is a good example that shows these authoritarians can be defeated. They did an enormous amount of damage over 8 years, so the new government has their work cut out for them. But in any event, it’s something that gives me hope.
Worst case scenario is that after Trump dies the white nationalists complete their takeover, and America becomes something that makes Nazi Germany look benevolent. The Nazis had neither nuclear weapons nor the kind of military edge the US has. Hitler killed tens of millions of people, such an America will kill billions. They want to kill at least half the population of the US, and entire continents outside our border. And neither Africa nor South/Central America have nuclear weapons to deter them from just massacring the population by ICBM.
No, wait; the very worst scenario is that it’s the Christian End Timers who take control, since their goal is to kill everyone.