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Record number of Americans are leaving the country and renouncing their citizenship for good, report says
In the aggregate, as many as 295,000 more people may have left the U.S. than immigrated there in 2025, according to one study
Americans appear to be leaving the U.S. at once-in-a-century levels, fleeing divisive politics and a cost of living crisis.
In 2025, the flow of Americans ditching the 50 states for good caused the first estimated net outward migration of the U.S. population in decades, something that likely hasn’t happened since the 1929 Great Depression.
“Previously, the Americans leaving were super-adventurous and well-credentialed,” Jen Barnett, founder of the resettlement consultancy firm Expatsi, told The Wall Street Journal. “Now they’re ordinary people, like me.”
In 2024, Barnett joined in the trend, relocating to Yucatán, Mexico.
The U.S. government doesn’t officially track the number of Americans who’ve resettled abroad, so estimates of just how many people left can vary.
But within the US, the migration from Blue states can be seen as well as the cost of living in places like Hawaii and California are too much for most Americans.
And with inflation rising once again, and the DNC set to take the midterms, who will no doubt raise taxes too boot and not fix the inflation, will you be the next to consider the jump?