American citizens are leaving in record numbers
Replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.
A millions-strong diaspora is studying, telecommuting and retiring overseas. The new American dream, for some of its citizens, is to no longer live there.
On a conference call last month hosted by Expatsi, a relocation company, almost 400 Americans signed up to learn how to move to Albania.
The former Stalinist state offers a special visa allowing U.S. citizens to live and work there, with no tax on foreign income for a year, no questions asked.
Michael Le Blanc, a 56-year-old former creative producer at Adobe and Paramount now freelancing from Lisbon, moved with his two children after the second active shooter scare at his 8-year-old son’s Los Angeles school.
In the six months since, his wife, Stephanie, a 42-year-old academic adviser in the U.S., has found work selling Lisbon real estate to incoming Americans.
Some 58% of foreign buyers in Portugal are from the U.S., and house prices have doubled in five years in some of the upmarket historical districts.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/americans-leaving-the-us-migration-a5795bfa
RE: Ännu ett tecken på att dollarn står högt.
Man vill inte gärna använda ordet v...vin.
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