Why American families are leaving the US for Europe

[Gefn]

In travel news this week, the Americans who’ve had enough of the United States and have started new lives overseas, plus everything you need to know about Europe’s new visa waiver scheme. And while this Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end of the summer travel season, you might want to think about booking next summer’s trip now. Here’s why.


The turmoil of the past few years has made a lot of people rethink their priorities and decide to start their lives afresh.

The Dawkins family from Texas – 59-year-old Nadine, 61-year-old Kim and their adult children – bought a home in the little Italian town of Latronico after tiring of the US political climate and reading CNN Travel stories about houses on sale for a euro.


https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/02/travel/travel-news-us-families-relocate-europe/index.html

[GtHawk]

In travel news this week, the Americans who’ve had enough of the United States and have started new lives overseas, plus everything you need to know about Europe’s new visa waiver scheme. And while this Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end of the summer travel season, you might want to think about booking next summer’s trip now. Here’s why.


The turmoil of the past few years has made a lot of people rethink their priorities and decide to start their lives afresh.

The Dawkins family from Texas – 59-year-old Nadine, 61-year-old Kim and their adult children – bought a home in the little Italian town of Latronico after tiring of the US political climate and reading CNN Travel stories about houses on sale for a euro.


https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/02/travel/travel-news-us-families-relocate-europe/index.html

They are leaving because of the US political climate? I will make a prediction that in a year, no more than two, they will be back, quietly. Once they have learned that the political climate in Europe is not only not better but worse and those God given freedoms they took for granted in America don't exist in Europe, they'll be back.

[berdie]

They are leaving because of the US political climate? I will make a prediction that in a year, no more than two, they will be back, quietly. Once they have learned that the political climate in Europe is not only not better but worse and those God given freedoms they took for granted in America don't exist in Europe, they'll be back.

My first thought at well.

[kevindavis007]

They are leaving because of the US political climate? I will make a prediction that in a year, no more than two, they will be back, quietly. Once they have learned that the political climate in Europe is not only not better but worse and those God given freedoms they took for granted in America don't exist in Europe, they'll be back.

Europe is nothing more than a Technocrat wet dream.

[jmyrlefuller]

They are leaving because of the US political climate? I will make a prediction that in a year, no more than two, they will be back, quietly. Once they have learned that the political climate in Europe is not only not better but worse and those God given freedoms they took for granted in America don't exist in Europe, they'll be back.

Unfortunately they don't seem to be recognized here in America, either.

That's the rub about it. The left can always leave and find a place better suited to their values. For us on the right, this is it. There are no places that require you to buy into a government health care scheme. There are no places where the right to bear arms is encoded in their Constitution. Once we lose this war, conservatism as we know it is dead... and at the rate we're going, we're going to lose.

[libertybele]

Unfortunately they don't seem to be recognized here in America, either.

That's the rub about it. The left can always leave and find a place better suited to their values. For us on the right, this is it. There are no places that require you to buy into a government health care scheme. There are no places where the right to bear arms is encoded in their Constitution. Once we lose this war, conservatism as we know it is dead... and at the rate we're going, we're going to lose.

It is imperative that we hang onto the 2A; without it all of our other rights will be non-existent (though they are slowly eroding away).

We have to find a way to place a true conservative in the WH period or we will indeed lose.

[mountaineer]

Once they have learned that the political climate in Europe is not only not better but worse and those God given freedoms they took for granted in America don't exist in Europe, they'll be back.

If they think the USA is over-regulated and overloaded with do-nothing bureaucrats, they ain't seen nuthin' yet.

[jafo2010]

My university roommate, back in the days of Clinton's presidency, very conservative, called me one day, and said 'I have had it!  I am moving to another country.'

I said what country?
He said, New Zealand.
I started laughing and said, New Zealand is a socialist country, you will not like living there, not in the least.
He says, then Ireland then.
I said, Ireland is a largely Catholic country, you would have a hard time finding a job there being a Protestant.
He just grunted, and said, 'I guess I'll stay here then.'

He was a sports journalist for a Virginia newspaper, down in North Carolina doing a story on NASCAR, when he had chest pains.  He was rushed to the hospital, and died on the table with his chest cracked open.  He was 47 years young.  That was 22 years ago, and more when he wanted to leave the USA.

Point here is that there are always folks wanting to leave to find a better place to live.  There is no better place.  If things continue to deteriorate here in the USA, do you honestly think anywhere else in the world will MAINTAIN a better existence?  Just not happening.

[Bigun]

There is nothing new about this! 

My friend John Gaver has been writing about it for years!

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[the OlLine Rebel]

I was hoping all the celebrity liberals would finally cash in their promises and move there (or anywhere not the US).  But here we find conservatives leaving?

[Smokin Joe]

I was hoping all the celebrity liberals would finally cash in their promises and move there (or anywhere not the US).  But here we find conservatives leaving?

Conservatives are the very people we need to stay.

[jafo2010]

Laughable article.  For every American family leaving the USA for elsewhere, there are 10,000, perhaps 100,000 families clamoring to get into this nation.

We have huge problems with the current Biden Idiocracy, and it may well end up permanently destroying the greatness about this nation, but there are still enough people in the USA to make a difference.  Sadly, the executive branch, legislative branch and judicial branch of government are devoid of folks that want to preserve this great nation.  Thus, the reason I claim we are in serious trouble.