As CNBC reported on Thursday, soon after the announcement of the preliminary results of the race for the White House almost 30 thousand people visited the website of the Expatsi travel agency. The company offers familiarization tours to help Americans move abroad.
“We are recording increased traffic on our website, higher than in the entire year of 2022. People want to move out quickly. Preferably before the inauguration” Jen Barnett, co-founder of Expatsi, said in an email to CNBC.
US election results. Americans are looking for places to move
Based on testimonials from some clients, she explained that the most important factors when choosing a new country are government stability, cost of living, affordable health care, low rates of gun violence, easy relocation, and a warm climate.
According to Barnett, in the past the most popular countries among Americans considering moving abroad were: Portugal, Spain i Mexico.
“Now we are seeing interest Ireland, France i Albania. Americans can spend a year in Albania without permanent residence,” noted the co-founder of Expatsi.
How she added interest has been building in the weeks leading up to Election Day in the US. Hundreds of people who planned to become Expatsi clients approached the company.
USA. A sudden jump. Americans want to escape to Canada
According to Google search data on Wednesday, when many people found in the news they read in the morning that Trump would be president of the USA again, there was a sudden jump in the search for “move to Canada” Canada) and “immigrate to Canada”. An increase in the popularity of such searches exceeded 5 thousand percent
Other inquiries that exceeded 5,000 percent, then “costs of moving to Canada from the USA”, “jobs for Americans in Canada” and “can I move to Canada if Trump wins”.
USA after the elections. Canada won't accept all applicants?
CTV News journalists asked the press office of the Canadian Ministry of Labor about the durability of the government website Canada.ca, which can be used to search for information about Canada, including work. They were assured that the site is designed to withstand heavy loads.
The possibility of moving to Canada was also checked by many Americans in 2016. It will not be as easy now as it was then, because at the end of October this year. the federal government announced a more than 20 percent reduction in immigration limits.