40% of American women under 45 want to permanently leave

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Anonymous wrote:I’m one of them.

Being an immigrant is tough. I’m desperate to leave but nicer places don’t want Americans and getting a visa let alone citizenship is an uphill battle.

I don't understand why Americans want to move to, particularly Europe so badly given they pay higher taxes for public services and earn a whole lot less overall. All the high-skilled people limited by their market in Europe move to the United States to earn more than they do in the old continent.

Have you been in a coma for the last decade?

New poster here. I lived in the UK for years and also worked in Germany for a brief period, plus many work trips to offices in Germany. Europeans make substantially less than Americans, especially at professional roles. Salaries are lower. Cost of living is still pretty high, especially in cities where the good jobs are. Many aspects of QoL is lower, such as housing and material comforts. There are some things they do well, such as national health (which still come with plenty of restrictions) and vacation policies. And I do love the cities. But European economies are more moribund and career growth is more limited. You'd be surprised by how many high performing Europeans have actually moved to the US for careers. Dubai is also hugely popular due to jobs and tax free incomes.

Europe also has significant cultural and political challenges. Some economic related, others over mass migration. The latter is an enormous tension point. And, guess what, European countries have stricter abortion laws than blue America (shocker, eh?). The grass is definitely not greener on the other side of the fence and spending a week in a fancy European city center isn't a taste of real life for the typical European. I've seen a particular hysteria and that is totally clueless among young progressive American women who have no idea what life is really like outside the US.

This. I have several European friends, and they all say both Europe and the US have their pros and cons. Careers and entrepreneurship are much more difficult in Europe, and there is tremendous pressure to conform and not do better than everyone else. I’ve even heard stories where someone will start to do well, buys themselves an expensive car, and people will trash it just to keep them in line.

Interestingly many of my American and European friends have moved to Mexico and love it. So Mexico could be an option.

Of course Mexico isn’t particularly happy that foreigners are coming there and driving up prices.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/world/americas/mexico-city-protests-rent-prices-tourists.html

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Anonymous wrote:I would leave if I was younger too.

Thank God I've gone through menopause.

And undoubtedly you live in a blue state where you could get any abortion that you wanted. The ridiculous part is that these women don't realize that there are restrictions on abortion in European countries. "But my rights!"

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I don’t know any women, even those under 40 who feel this way. We have family in Europe and have spent plenty of time there. As others have said, there are pros and cons everywhere you go, but we have a pretty good here.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know any women, even those under 40 who feel this way. We have family in Europe and have spent plenty of time there. As others have said, there are pros and cons everywhere you go, but we have a pretty good here.

"pretty good here" in what sense?

The cost of living in the US is climbing higher. We are finding it more expensive here than in the UK now. My spouse moved to the US from the UK 30 years ago, and they said it was much cheaper in the US than in the UK. Now, when we go back to the UK, we are finding it's cheaper there than here, especially the healthcare costs.

Food in Europe is better, too. They have more stringent laws around food safety; no GMO, etc.. They are less controlled by corporate greed than we are here.

The political climate here is more like a dictatorship. Rights are being eroded. Ethics being violated. It's very disturbing.

And I used to be a conservative.

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Most of the 40% who want to leave would change their minds in exchange for a Gucci purse.

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Well living somewhere is different than visiting and there's pros and cons to all places. But..

Our current country is not great. The US of years ago when folks wanted to immigrate for a better life here because of so many pros is diminishing.

5 yrs ago maybe US has more pros than cons but soon we will have more cons than pros.

We are currently the laughing stock of the world.

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Anonymous wrote:And do many more want to come in? Everyone thinks the grass is greener somewhere else.

For the first time ever in the history of the United States, more people are projected to be leaving than coming in https://www.npr.org/2025/07/04/nx-s1-5455815/more-immigrants-likely-to-leave-u-s-this-year-than-enter-forecasters-say

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Not all places in Europe are the same.
There are also options outside of Europe.

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Healthcare, food, education, public transportation, gun control - these are all very important to many people, understandably.

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Anonymous wrote:Healthcare, food, education, public transportation, gun control - these are all very important to many people, understandably.

Deep blue inner city Baltimore has all that stuff

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All three of my kids wants to move overseas: DD, because of the threats to women’s rights and healthcare; DS1 because there are more academic opportunities in science overseas; DS2 because of the threat to free speech at the universities.

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of women vote against their own interests?

The 60% that want to stay in the US, probably.

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Anonymous wrote:I m an immigrant from SEA. I think USA is much better for women than a lot of places I know or came from. And I am consider upper middle class in my country.
I love the USA. It’s give me a new life. You have it so good that you take it for granted here.

This true, but the rights we fought for are being taken away. The country that our grandparents worked to build is taken over by oligarchs that want AI to run everything.

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Anonymous wrote:https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-women-leave.aspx

40% of American women under 44 want to leave the USA

Interesting

Uh, no. stop readomg hysterical women's cmments as real It never is as they want you ro seem.

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They should leave provided a female from any other country can enter US.