It's hard to fathom going Gault and abandoning America. I love America for our Constitution and the freedom to chose one’s own life that flows from that original source. I suppose if getting out of Dodge was the only way to keep the government from taking my life's work or live as I choose, it could be the option of last resort.
You can take the constitution out of the country. I’d say 99.9% of the political thought came from out side the country. Locke, Montesquieu, Italian city states, the Dutch Republic, Rome and Greece.
Free states come and go, mainly were there are free people.