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 ...
lol - My BIL wants to to move to the acreage he bought in Mexico. He’s PO’d that nobody wants to go to Mexico with him.
Zucotti Park?
How quickly we got to this. Sad.
re: “The people who want to stay here are the ones who ruined this great nation.”
What an asinine thing to say. Good-bye and good riddance! I guess we just turn our backs on all the patriots who bled and died before us from Bunker Hill, to the Alamo, to Pearl Harbor, to those who died on Normandy Beach?
Thomas Paine once said:
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands now deserves the love and thanks of men and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation with us, the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
Shame on you for painting all who remain in our great nation as users and takers. If the principles our country was founded upon were ever worth fighting for and defending, why leave the field to the enemy now? Doing so is a betrayal of every patriot who died in the cause of defending her and are now buried in Arlington, Gettysburg, Pearl Harbor, Normandy beach, and in unmarked graves in our own nation and around the world. Shame on you!
It may very well be that those who say our great nation is faltering and cannot recover are correct - but even so, I cannot leave her or give up hope or stop trying to make things right - America has been in tough times before and just as there were quiters at Valley Forge and at every major crisis we’ve faced as a people, there will be those who throw in the towel now as well.
Go if you must, but don’t besmirch the motives of all who remain behind. So, go have a great life “working and getting on with life”. Thanks for all your help.
I think if I could get to Switzerland I would be SO outa here...
When I lived in Panama you could not get to Bocas Del Toro by car. One of the few places I never made it to.
Mining is absolutely booming, an ordinary cook and I don’t mean a housewife though if a housewife that can cook wanted to make over $80,000 a year working at the mines then by all means then go to Australia.
The country has around a 6.2% unemployment rate, skilled workers in the IT and movie business are courted with all kinds of nice offers. property is a bit high but minimum wage is far higher than America, picture a waitress making $20 an hour, and you don’t tip them.
there was a report about the number one ranked city on Earth, ironically it was in Norway, but in a warmer latitude Melbourne ranked second.
I remember the Australia Olympics, flawlessly performed, I seriously doubt Chicago could have done any better.
Buying cars or a motorcycle is different due to the taxes at the time of purchase, they are on the other side of the road, power is 220v 50hz. Recently weather has played a very aggresive role, floods and fire.
I live in Alaska, I work in Alaska, my work is summer seasonal. I can do the same thing in Oz and make 50% more, and most of all I don’t have to worry about the IRS or being penalized and having my wages garnished for the healthcare act.
Its a bit spendy flying to Oz, about $2,000 RT from LAX, and its a 15 hour flight. I do the Anchorage to Hawaii, kill some time there acclimating to the temps and then its just a 10 hour hour flight.
I have posted some comments in blogs and forums with my hobbies and I call it “Escape from America”.
America has its chance to “change” but only if they find the proper leadership, so far it seems too many people are victims of either mass hypnosis by electing Obama or victims of some wild Air Force drug experiment.
But I especially feel some sadness that they really just could not go with their hearts to support Sarah Palin, instead they used the MSM as their conscious guide.
I will be leaving America but only because of economic reasons, if I stay I will go under and lose my home and anything that they want to take away.
We just got back from Istanbul...it was beautiful.
What kills me is they will be the first to come back after either the smoke clears or thier in danger of getting thier heads lopped off by thier host nation, candy a## traitors. When you leave dont come back!
I never thought I would think this much less say it but a couple of mos ago I suddenly found myself online looking at property listings in the Fraser Valley in BC. Its called the banana belt because it does not get real cold. I don’t think there is any chance of it but if Barry should get elected again we may very well buy a little vacation place there. Just in case.
Nah. I like using toilet paper, razors and soap too much.
But thanks for the suggestion!!
;-D
About ten years ago, at a Thai restaurant in Seattle, my sister and I had a ‘heated discussion’. She claimed that since my father had retired and had a good pension and had money saved up, that he should support my 30 year old brother who was unemployed and not interested at all in working. Well, the ‘loud discussion’ progressed and after hearing her call our honorable military rapists and murders, we were asked to leave when I almost flipped the table on her. I got good points in the ‘discussion’ and I think she took some to heart.
But she never mentioned anything in that discussion to me again. I can only hope she felt some shame. I bring this up as I know my sister and brother are no doubt camping with the unwashed masses in Seattle. (neigher one works and are so liberal that the speck of light you see in the distance past the big ball of light of liberalism is one million light years away and they are to the left of that)
And while I have been thrown out of better places than that, I really wanted my Pad Thai.
You're a better man than a communist tyrant wannabe who lived abroad and learned that the rest of the world is miserable, so he wants to bring us down to their level.
You have absolutely no idea of what you are talking about. When you do, come back and we can have a reasonable discussion.
its like people who rent telling land owners that they should pay more property taxes....once you don't have any skin in the game, it changes your opinion....
but also....don’t these grand countries you folks live in have their OWN internet forums you can post to, about your new country?.....since you’ve all switched your loyalties, then by all means, get involved in your OWN country, leave OURS to US....
I believe MANY Baby Boomers will move offshore to make retirement possible.
On Social Security only, life is difficult here. In Ecuador, for example, you could buy
a beachfront condo for $120k and live well on $1500/mo.
After the next financial crisis, many Boomers will find this prospect very attractive.
Which province is most popular? Alberta?
“You can’t own land in Mexico as a foreigner.”
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Yes, it is possible, I understand, “by placing the property in a bank trust. (Fideicomiso)”
Always remember that it is easy to set up a corporation to accomplish things overseas also.
A beautiful area to garden...
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