People who are saying they are going to leave the country because of the results are delusional, amirite?

and even moving to different states is a huge pain in the butt and difficult for alot of people

by Certain-Poem 1 month ago

It is. More so than you would think.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

There's no restrictions or requirements to move between someone though. It's just a PITA but nowhere near applying for residency

by Anonymous 1 month ago

yeah, i dont understand how people even do that without a job waiting for them, a support system, or money.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Nah, moving states is really easy. I used to do it a couple times a year in my 20s. The key is to just keep your amount of processions really low. I always made sure everything I owned could just fit in my car.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

yeah i'm sure id be easy if you didn't have a family lol

by Certain-Poem 1 month ago

99.9% of people who say they'll move to another country, will in fact not move to another country.

by Wrong_Woodpecker 1 month ago

Just like they didn't last time.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

well of course. they wish they could, though.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

And that includes Canada. Just because it's next door, just because they speak English and are similar to us in many ways, doesn't mean you can just move to Canada. They're not exactly holding the door open for us

by Anonymous 1 month ago

They'll be shocked to learn that the majority of countries do in-fact have immigration laws

by Anonymous 1 month ago

No one's going anywhere, they say this every election.

by Possible-Squirrel-67 1 month ago

Selfishly, I wish those who said they are going to move end up doing it, maybe housing will become more affordable. Been trying to find a house now for a few years, just nothing on the market ><

by Longjumping_Cake_182 1 month ago

That's now how the housing market works

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Nobody is going anywhere. The same 4-year cycle repeating itself. "The world is over!" No its not.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

They also forget that USA is not the whole world, it is just a small part of it.

by GullibleLook 1 month ago

Oh they love to think that

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Cringe and they're terrible people for the most part lmao

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Democracy is over though so the decision is you do wanna live with American tyranny or get out.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

No its not. My life isnt going to change. "Tyranny"

by Anonymous 1 month ago

You think their immigration laws are as easy to deal with as ours? A lot of imbecils do believe everyone has open borders minus the usa.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Immigration is the same everywhere. If you want to move to a country you have to have something they want, so train in that department and go

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This is where I am, honestly. The election results were hardly the only thing factoring into it, but more so the straw that broke the camel's back: I've been disappointed with the quality of life in this country for a long time and having studied abroad, I've come to realize I just no longer mesh well with American society as a whole. My relationship with this country is like that relative you don't talk to: you really do love it and want it to be its best, but you just can't be around it for your well-being anymore.

by Sharon44 1 month ago

I know exactly how you feel! If I didn't have major responsibilities and a cat, and was in the right place in life lol I'd move.

by Simonisjanessa 1 month ago

A large portion of them will be disappointed to learn that most other countries have stringent immigration requirements.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

And actually enforce them.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I recently looked into what it would take to retire in another country, nothing to do with the election, and it is not easy. The one thing that really surprised me was heath care. Just because the country has universal Healthcare doesn't mean you can move there and take advantage of it. Especially if you have pre existing conditions.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

some people have dual citizenship

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I‘m in Europe and I promise u it won't work. At all. Especially language-wise.

by Calm_Aardvark 1 month ago

French :(?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

No Germany. Berlin people know some English, But bureaucracy here will break anybody‘s neck. Unless you're a student, then maybe.

by Calm_Aardvark 1 month ago

I moved to Portugal 4 years ago, it's working pretty well. The language is tough, but honestly, how often do you actually talk to people outside your immediate family? My Portuguese is still pretty bad, but there's only one or two times a month that I actually need to speak to people. And when I do, they usually switch right to English when I mess up a conjugation.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Nice but I'm not speaking for every country. I just didn't wanna start with where I live. Also, that's not exactly a great way to live, is it? May as well live in Siberia then.

by Calm_Aardvark 1 month ago

Agree that the average person doesn't have to leave after an election. But if 'day to day life isn't changing' after elections than boy do you people have impotent leaders. At least in Hungary we know that when Orbán wins, we continue the downward spiral. - - and we feel it. And that's why I reject the 'it's not a big deal' premise.

by koby54 1 month ago

Honestly if you have a remote job, it's relatively easy to get a remote worker visa and move to another country and work from there. My friend did just this and moved to Spain. She now has a remote worker visa there which allows her to stay for 5 years. You don't even have to make a huge amount to qualify for this visa. Think it was only over $3k a month.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Not all the countries have it. I think Greece also have it but Italy, France, uk don't have it. I have done a bit research. It's not only about the visa, but learning the languages, housing hunting, making friends.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yes, I didn't mean all countries have it. But a lot of countries offer it now. Spain, Malta and Greece are three countries that offer this. Bali too. And I think Mexico. And yes I know it's not super easy but a lot of remote workers seem to want to do this.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I left for Indonesia for a year after DUMP got elected the first time. #finebyme

by Organic_Clerk3707 1 month ago

Yes. I'm looking at costa rica.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

a beautiful place :)

by Organic_Clerk3707 1 month ago

I'm just lucky i have a get away fund.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

yeah I went to San Jose recently and it's way nicer than the city I'm living in rn in the states

by Anonymous 1 month ago

My friend is there now with her husband

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Lol

by Tight-Cod 1 month ago

I can go anywhere in the EU, dual Irish citizenship. I'm not leaving but if I wanted and had the money I could just go to Prague. I'm sure most people are just talking out of their ass and using their emotions instead of common sense. Too many people think because theyre American they can move anywhere without any immigration requirements.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Well alot of the time, a country directly south with a cold climate is actually preparing to receive political immigrants. I think that it's a pretty valid thing to plan leaving a country where it's leader has all but threatened your life for the crime of existing/

by Anonymous 1 month ago

No western country is gonna accept political refugees from the US at the moment, it'd have to get a whole lot worse for that to happen.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Human rights isn't an opinion

by Anonymous 1 month ago

The fact that people quote that man as if they can trust anything he says will never fail to baffle me. All three of his Supreme Court picks also said they wouldn't go after Roe, but here we are.

by External-Wedding 1 month ago

why would you believe a known compulsive liar when he says he wont do something? Thats the real problem here, people who think like that.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

if you googled "right wing lies" the list of results would never end.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

There are a LOT of people who refuse to believe that they've been victimized by misinformation and propaganda. They're having a visceral, emotional reaction to it because they are incapable of believing that they have been so thoroughly deceived.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yeah it's crazy to not want to live in a country run by a convicted felon rapist pedophile.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

for real 🙄 people are like "it's not even a big deal , trumps not that bad" ok tell that to all the dead women from the abortion bans

by Bheathcote 1 month ago

Bill clinton was elected twice and nobody left

by Optimal_Pineapple 1 month ago

Clinton literally got impeached over a sex scandal with another consenting adult. Trump has been found legally liable of sexual battery and just won the election.

by External-Wedding 1 month ago

Immigration laws aren't really easier or harder, they are just different. For example, it is very easy to immigrate to Canada... as long as one scores high in the immigration ranking system (and, obviously, is healthy and had no issues withthe law). And if one's score is low, it's not hard, but outright impossible.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

The difference is that people are legitimately scared for their safety, if they just didn't like the next president, I'd say they were delusional too, but theyre terrified, they genuinely do not feel safe in America anymore, your borders aren't protecting your people, for many they're imprisoning them and stripping them of their rights, so they are seriously weighing the pros and cons of leaving before trump is officially sworn in. And it may not just he the next 4 years.

by Old_Worldliness 1 month ago

When it comes to women's reproductive rights it's not just going to be 4 years though is it? Once those are gone, it's going to be harder to get them back. I do agree that other countries have strict rules for moving to them and the U.K. ones have got harder over the last few years as I suspect many have

by Hour-Tear-9880 1 month ago

What's going to happen i$ a whole lot of men are going to realize with no or limited abortions in their states, their wives dying of miscarriages, leaving them to raise their children alone and pay for daycare… men will actually CARE because 1 man = 100 women in this world. Enjoy your white Jesus Santa Claus!

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Most of them are, and most of them aren't going anywhere. Anyone who hasn't actually looked into the requirements to immigrate to another country is just up in their feelings. That said, a friend of mine has been contemplating a move abroad for years, and this election just bumped up his timeline.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Honest question from a europoor; how difficult is it? I moved countries a few years back within europe and all i had to do was get some documentation done which took a few hours spread over a few months.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Nah I have dual citizenship. I know what a good country looks like I lived there for decades. You make a lot of sweeping generalizations about people you know nothing about, but that's the Republican way.

by Breitenbergclau 1 month ago

People always say this after an election, it almost never happens

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Facts

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Your day to day life ain't changing much I promise you that. In some states, women went from being able to schedule an abortion to it being a crime. It happened in a day. If you think your life isn't changing much, consider yourself privileged.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

These people don't know how to handle not getting their way and it's really sad honestly.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

"Don't know How to handle not getting their way" you mean like women dying of pregnancy complications?

by Double_Ingenuity8142 1 month ago

My sister did and hasn't been back since 2017.

by Turnerbecker 1 month ago

"As easy to deal with as ours?" My buddy married a Canadian. She was lost in the system for 8 years before they gave her citizenship.

by tommiebednar 1 month ago

We also call those people MORONS!

by Designer-Feeling-532 1 month ago

and the simplest answer is it is very difficult or impossible. You need money, and an in demand skill or trade. Whether they would do it or not is immaterial, they probably CANT. I had a friend whose mother was trying to retire to somewhere in the west indies-forget which country-she kept applying every year, they kept rejecting her, saying to come back when she had more money. Like i said, i dont remember which country, but i doubt thats an uncommon example.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Doesn't matter which side you're on, this has been my sentiment through every election cycle

by Anonymous 1 month ago

People have said that every election since Obama started

by Expensive_Speaker 1 month ago

Not happy but not throwing empty threats. I DO think there may be a brain drain like in Europe in the early 1930s .

by ManyInternational 1 month ago

First logical statement i've read in a while

by Only-Breakfast 1 month ago

This opinion only seems unpopular because the louder minority crying about it lol.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This happens every single election: no one actually leaves. Unless they're deported out, of course

by Anonymous 1 month ago

This you?

by Anonymous 1 month ago

It's not delusional, I left the US 4 years ago. It wasn't easy, but it wasn't harder than getting your first job or getting into college. The world is kind of ending right now and it looks like American hegemony is entering into a death spiral. It's not a bad idea to hedge your bets. With that said, nowhere is a panacea, but if you can get a US passport and another passport in the Schengen, you've really given yourself and your family some good options in the future.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Whatever you say 50's dad. You forgot to include how we should be grateful for cheap technology too.

by Budget_Brilliant_152 1 month ago

You called him names but didn't call him a liar

by Optimal_Pineapple 1 month ago

I have dual citizenship and money, so yeah, I can leave. Not everyone is stuck, like you.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Are you single? 😘

by Anonymous 1 month ago

I don't care if it's a process, haha. I'm moving to Japan, but this was a plan of mine regardless of the winner of this election. I'm just tired of this country in general and there are more opportunities for me there without having to pay an arm and a leg to get there.

by Quiet-Poetry-7696 1 month ago

Wait until they find out how strict other countries immigration laws are

by Anonymous 1 month ago

You think their immigration laws are as easy to deal with as ours? The fact the you think the US has easy to deal with immigration laws tells me just how uninformed your whole opinion is.

by External-Wedding 1 month ago

Fact, not an opinion.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Why? Who wants to stay in this hell hole

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Millions and MILLIONS of people.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Yeah i doubt it. If we gave folks an easy out, we could get out of here and leave all the small dicked obese greasy man pigs to kiss each other. A girl can dream.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Ya how about the millions of immigrants coming here every year lmao kind of this whole political issue that's been going on

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Crazy how this is the conversation we're having and not 'how did we elect a confirmed racist rapist felon?'

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Because nobody outside of the Pacific Northwest or northeast coast liked Kamala Harris. Believe or not there's an entire United States outside of Brooklyn and Eugene, Oregon lol

by Optimal_Pineapple 1 month ago

Donal tramp and Don Jr were planning on going anywhere to avoid prison so maybe ask them?

by Deep_Conference 1 month ago

Yet the celebrities never follow through on their plans to leave. Wonder if they looked at the tax rates in a Europe for high wage earners

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Go to haiti !

by Every-Fox 1 month ago

I hope they try. Maybe they'll get some perspective on how the rest of the world deals with immigrants, the long process to become a citizen, the expectation that you assimilate and learn the language, and what they do if you're found to be there illegally.

by Skylakling 1 month ago

Nah, I'd get brutally executed.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Some people are really scared and putting their ducks in a row to make moving a possibility. Some people just say it to blow off steam

by Anonymous 1 month ago

No one should ever be upset when the trash takes itself out.

by Anonymous 1 month ago

Instead of moving, I'll take them getting off social media for 4 years instead lol

by Prudent_Extension545 1 month ago