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Meet The Growing Number Of Americans Who Want To Move Abroad
Business Insider ^ | Nov. 8, 2011, 5:21 PM | Abby Rogers and Gus Lubin

Posted on 11/10/2011 8:11:16 PM PST by Niuhuru

A growing number of Americans is thinking about turning expat, according to a survey by America Wave and Zogby International.

The share of Americans planning to relocate increased to 2.5 percent from 0.8 percent in 2009. If this number describes the entire population, that means around 6 million Americans are planning on leaving the country.

America Wave's Bob Adams (a Business Insider contributor) found that single people, political conservatives and men were more likely to be in this group.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abroad; americans; business; conservatives; expat; expats; international; men; population; relocate
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To: pepsionice

It is definitely entrepreneurial people, affluent people who want to escape the taxes on worldwide income, and those who don’t like what is happening here. If I start another biz, it willbe offshore.


21 posted on 11/10/2011 8:21:56 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (You know, 99.99999965% of the lawyers give all of them a bad name)
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To: Niuhuru

BS. Just where the heck would they move?


22 posted on 11/10/2011 8:22:38 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: SkyDancer
Smart person, if I were younger I would be down there with you.
23 posted on 11/10/2011 8:22:56 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: Niuhuru

Thankin’ ‘bout it, had an offer to teach English in China, where, the man said, there is no welfare for the lazy bums!


24 posted on 11/10/2011 8:25:21 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Niuhuru

Where is Galt’s Gulch these days anyway?


25 posted on 11/10/2011 8:25:35 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
I’ve lived abroad. I learned America is the best nation on Earth.

Same here and I am a signature away from dual citizenship that could be very lucrative in 25 years.

No F'n way. I am a proud citizen of the United States of America.

26 posted on 11/10/2011 8:26:08 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: freedumb2003

I visited Veracruz long ago, but recently read an article that Veracruz the city and Veracruz the state have been almost irretrievably lost to gangs and corruption.


27 posted on 11/10/2011 8:26:28 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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To: Paladin2

Some here seem to have interpreted Galts Gulch to mean the Peoples Republic of China.

Ayn Rand did not mean that.

Of that, I am absolutely certain.


28 posted on 11/10/2011 8:27:00 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (America First)
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To: max americana

I left the USA many years ago and moved to California. Next I’ll be in Mexico without having to leave CA.


29 posted on 11/10/2011 8:27:05 PM PST by umgud
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To: org.whodat

I meet with a group of expats in Brisbane every so often and we chat about life and how to live in a great society here in Oz. The killer is learning the lingo. It’s easy once you get the hang of what they’re talking about, right mate? The whole thing here is just tickety-boo. And Bob’s yer uncle.


30 posted on 11/10/2011 8:27:54 PM PST by SkyDancer ('If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate ")
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To: Niuhuru
I have several friends at retirement age who have looked seriously at moving out of the country. We meet often to discuss.

After trips to Panama, Vietnam, Costa Rica and Spain we have decided to join compatriots who are populating Idaho and South Dakota in order to establish patriotic American strongholds here at home.

31 posted on 11/10/2011 8:28:39 PM PST by Baynative (The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
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To: SkyDancer

No worse than rural Canada, where I lived long before satellite TV and the internet, PLUS I had to know some French.


32 posted on 11/10/2011 8:30:21 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: freekitty

The country with the most expat Americans is Canada. Roughly a million. Now some would say the cultural shift is minor so Canada might be considered cheating in terms of moving away from the USA but there is where you find the most Americans abroad.


33 posted on 11/10/2011 8:31:44 PM PST by xp38
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To: xp38

Spot on.


34 posted on 11/10/2011 8:32:50 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: steve86

>>I visited Veracruz long ago, but recently read an article that Veracruz the city and Veracruz the state have been almost irretrievably lost to gangs and corruption.<<

It is rough but I our place is outside that zone. We are keeping an eye on the situation and are sure the government is planing on moving in. The Mexican prez is PO’d and it looks like he wants to use VZ to make an example.


35 posted on 11/10/2011 8:33:10 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012 -- the man we need at the time we need him)
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To: xp38

I’d move to Banff in a heartbeat if I could, Alberta is the “Texas” of Canada, people there are much more conservative than in Toronto.


36 posted on 11/10/2011 8:33:22 PM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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To: Paladin2

if you find it, please pass along the coords

with entitlements (ie: buying votes with taxpayer money) at 60% of federal spending... I’m working 30% of my time to support the parasites

the same parasites that vilify me or anyone like me.

it’s like the Jews in 1930s Germany paying taxes to build the death camps. it makes no sense


37 posted on 11/10/2011 8:34:59 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: dfwgator

Yep. I’ve seen at least as many Stetsons in Calgary as Dallas.


38 posted on 11/10/2011 8:36:01 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: dfwgator

I’m considering moving to Canada or Switzerland if
Obamacare isn’t repealed by Jan 2014.


39 posted on 11/10/2011 8:36:12 PM PST by preamble
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To: Niuhuru

Eff ‘em. If they choose to run when their country needs them most, I say good riddance, and never call yourself my countryman again.


40 posted on 11/10/2011 8:36:51 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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