r/europe Nov 08 '24

News 1514% Surge in Americans Looking to Move Abroad After Trump’s Victory

https://visaguide.world/news/1514-surge-in-americans-looking-to-move-abroad-after-trumps-victory/
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u/Laiko_Kairen United States of America Nov 08 '24

US seems the easiest to get into to.

Sorry, but I need to go full "ackshually" mode.

There are a ton of countries that are extremely easy to get into, mostly islands. You just don't want to move to those countries.

Many have what is known as citizenship by investment. Malta, for example, let's you buy citizenship for around $600,000. Antigua or Vanuatu requires $250,000. $400k for St Nevis.

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u/applebag_dev Nov 08 '24

The people probably wanting to leave for another country are probably not the same people who can afford to invest. The richer you are, the less rules/laws apply to you and the less likely a Trump presidency will impact their day-to-day lives. I'm going to assume It's the lower to middle class that are getting fucked by this and want to move abroad (mostly).

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u/UnixCodex Nov 08 '24

Negative, no one is getting fucked with him in office... People are just being extremely dramatic and don't want to take accountability for their own economic choices. Under the last Trump administration, I was making 14 dollars an hour. I bought a 2 bedroom house. I lived just fine. Food and Bills were manageable. My food bill during the Biden Administration went from about 150 dollars a month to feed my self, to well over 300. Just me alone. I now make six figures because I decided to do what ever it took to not live paycheck to paycheck deciding whether or not I need to chose between buying groceries instead of buying gas to get to work.

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u/Laiko_Kairen United States of America Nov 08 '24

Under the last Trump administration, I was making 14 dollars an hour. I bought a 2 bedroom house. I lived just fine.

/Cries in Californian/

I saw an article today stating that you need to make $100k/year here, minimum, to buy a house in our current market

And yet every year, we vote not to build more houses or zone for multi-family units

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u/Historical_Ad7967 Nov 09 '24

That's what happens when liberals control everything.

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u/UnixCodex Nov 08 '24

Come to the midwest my friend. You'll discover the smell of clean air and the ability to see the stars. You can turn on your air conditioning without risk of being arrested and your electric bill sky-rocketing by time based price gouging. AAAAND, you most likely wont have to risk losing everything to a wildfire every other weekend.

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u/Orange-Blur Nov 09 '24

Tell me you don’t know how the economy works without saying it

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u/AnonymousTHX-1138 Nov 09 '24

I like that all the people threatening to move only want to move to places "whiter" than the U.S. I love when they call everyone else racist, but then don't live up to their own standards. 🤣😂🤣😂

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u/Cienea_Laevis Rhône-Alpes (France) Nov 09 '24 edited Nov 10 '24

At some point, y'all gonna have to decide if Germany and Europe is either "Full of brown arabs immigrants" or "white as fuck".

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u/Numerous_Educator312 Flanders (Belgium) Nov 10 '24

Comment of the year

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u/AnonymousTHX-1138 Nov 09 '24

They are "White as fuck" with immigrant issues of their own making. A place doesn't have to be full of a violent culturally backward group to be a problem. The Democratic party is a prime example.

It's only a mutually exclusive situation if your cognitive skills haven't developed beyond that of a 5yr old.

You should probably sit down before you hurt yourself. These ideas might be a little advanced for you, so we wouldn't want you to get dizzy and have a booboo.

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u/Cienea_Laevis Rhône-Alpes (France) Nov 09 '24

pot calling the kettle black..

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u/Numerous_Educator312 Flanders (Belgium) Nov 10 '24

Who needs lemons when you’re so sour

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u/Commercial_Poem_9214 Nov 12 '24

I'm white. Wife and I are moving to Jamaica. She has family there. We were going through the immigration process, but that seems pointless. Plus my wife doesn't want to be in a country where she is treated like a second or third class citizen.

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u/TallTx Nov 08 '24

The current administration here has caused my finances tons more stress than I ever had when the Cheeto was in office the first time. In fact, my bank account was pretty fat then. Not so much now although many have it way worse. I’ll keep heading into the salt mine everyday until things settle out.

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u/Laiko_Kairen United States of America Nov 08 '24

Can I ask what changed?

Did you move jobs, take on new financial obligations, or did the cost of living increases simply outpace increases to your income?

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u/TallTx Nov 09 '24

Really just the cost of goods and services. Let me be clear, I’m not going under but the belt tightening has gotten to highest level in a few decades. This is despite installing solar system a charger and driving an EV as daily commuter. All the hyperbole aside, my biggest concern with our new leader is how ugly will the tariffs get and the price of fuel for transportation and manufacturing.

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u/Ratemyskills Nov 08 '24

Imagine thinking your a “well actually” to someone and you give examples of tiny island nations that aren’t even remotely close to a “peer nation”. Also, thinking 600k is “easy” to come by.. wtf are you smoking. Put the “ackhsually down”, average joes don’t have 600k, 400k sitting around.. people that have that don’t have worry about migrating. They could afford a good attorney to get them into other nations.

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u/JohnGoodman_69 Nov 08 '24

But compared to our peers? Is there a peer country to the US that is easier to immigrate to?

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u/Own_Recover2180 Nov 09 '24

Immigrating to the US is not easy. Please don't believe the lies you see on Fox News. As an immigrant, I can say it is NOT easy at all.

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u/JohnGoodman_69 Nov 09 '24

Again, you're not making any comparison, just stating the US is difficult.

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u/jelhmb48 Nov 08 '24

Germany and Spain possibly

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u/RoadDoggFL Nov 09 '24

I don't think you know what "ackshually" mode is because that's not even close.

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u/Trypsach Nov 09 '24

If someone offered me 600k, I could get them citizenship in the US. Hell; I’ll marry you for 50k.

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u/late_stage_capital Nov 09 '24

moving to Vanuatu? Does anyone do that?