Stories of those who decided to leave America Trump

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As it turned out, these people were not joking at all when they said that they would leave the United States should Trump win the presidential elections, the correspondent says BBC Capital.

When she first heard that Donald Trump was going to run for president, Sarah thought it was a joke that you should not take such news seriously.

But, she said, on November 8, 2016, “something unimaginable” happened: Trump won the election.

Sarah, who asked us not to use her last name for security reasons, immediately called her husband, who was on a business trip overseas, and told him: “That’s it. I want to leave, and I'm not kidding." He replied: “I know. Let's leave."

Sarah is 43 of the year, her husband is 45 of years old, and they have 2 daughters of school age. In February, they will leave their home in a small town in the Midwest, where they lived the last 3,5 of the year, and go to another country thousands of kilometers away.

They do not plan to return.

During the discussion of one of the most intense election campaigns in modern US history in office smoking rooms, coffee shops, in the press and in the kitchens, many people said they would leave the country if Trump became president.

But when Trump did win, most of them, including celebrities such as Miley Cyrus and Amy Schumer, backed down and abandoned their promises to leave.

Some of them simply did not have such an opportunity, and someone said that he decided to stay and fight.

Others said they were just joking. However, there are people who have already left, plan to leave or, in some cases, postpone returning to the US from abroad.

No choice

For Sarah and her family, moving was the only option. She says she would like to “stay and fight,” but the safety of her family and the ability to all live together are of paramount importance to her.

Her husband is not American, does not have resident status, and works long hours abroad. Their children are dual citizens of the United States and his home country, and Sarah is a U.S. citizen with legal residency in both countries.

In order to come to his wife and daughters, her husband designed temporary visas.

“It’s like a lottery: what if someone doesn’t like him and won’t let him in? - she says. “With the change of power, this prospect has become even more frightening.”

She believes that her family was lucky, because they have the means and possibilities to change their place of residence.

At the same time, she experiences how her daughter will perceive what is happening. The fate of her compatriots who cannot leave the country also worries her.

“What example am I setting for my daughters by leaving the country when so many people cannot do the same? Who will stay here to protect them and fight for them?” Sarah asks herself.

Sarah says she is very sorry to leave friends, but they support her. Many say they would leave too if they could.

But not everyone agrees with this decision, especially her father, who voted for Trump.

“Those who don’t understand me say: “Good riddance!” she admits. “And that’s why we’re leaving.” I don’t want to raise my girls where I don’t feel safe, I don’t want to put them at risk like that.”

New Deal in Politics

The same-sex marriage parties, Corey Carl and Casey Daily, did not even want to wait for the announcement of the election results.

“[Even] before Trump became a serious candidate, my wife and I felt there was a political backlash brewing against Obama and the success of his liberal policies over the last 8 years,” says Corey Karl.

So they started looking for a place outside the US to go to. “We decided we wanted to live in Canada,” she notes.

Last January, they moved to Toronto from New York.

Carl is a communications consultant working remotely, and Daly is an analyst for a global company with operations in North America and Europe. She had worked there for 10 years, so there were no problems with the transfer to Toronto.

According to Karl, many people misunderstand the process of moving and the criteria they must meet if they want to move further north.

“Generally, you either qualify to immigrate to Canada or you don’t. It’s quite simple and depends on how many points you get,” she explains.

Best of all, if you aren’t 35 years old, you have a degree above a bachelor’s degree, and you’re a specialist in a particular field or are in a leadership position.

“In this case, your chances are very high,” she adds. “A written job offer is not required, although you will need to confirm that you have savings to cover expenses while you look for work.”

Women say they wanted to help other people who may have more problems with the move than they have, but many have refused this idea.

To offer their assistance, Carl and Daly wrote a book, Immigrating to Canada, and created a website for those trying to immigrate from the United States to Canada. Traffic to the site jumped 300% in November and "spikes up when Trump tweets something particularly threatening," says Corey Karl.

The degree of interest each has its own

Of course, the traffic on the website does not mean specific results.

Lawyer Marisa Feil, who lives in Montreal and specializes in immigration to Canada, has one client who, after the elections, left his job in the United States and occupied a similar position in the Canadian branch of his company.

However, most calls about moving - and there have been a lot more of them lately - do not result in any concrete action.

According to Feil, most of the questions asked to her concern whether a job offer is needed in order to immigrate to Canada or to receive a temporary work permit.

“Many Americans are surprised to learn that they don’t have enough education and/or work experience to move,” she says.

“Canada has moved to a system where most immigrants must have some kind of connection to that country, such as a job offer from a Canadian employer or a family member in Canada who can help with the job search,” Feil explains.

To the ends of the earth - from Trump and Hillary

New Zealand Immigration consultancy New Zealand Shores found its website traffic increased by 600% the day after the US election.

Her employee Sarah Krom, an immigration specialist from Hamilton (New Zealand), told us about this.

Krom says some of her clients' desire to leave is driven less by Trump's victory and more by the "political situation" in general.

“I’ve had a lot of clients who don’t like Hillary either,” she admits.

The agency currently handles the cases of about 150 American couples and families, an increase from previous years.

“New Zealand seems attractive to them at the moment,” says Crome.

For Galina, a resident of New York, temporarily working in Australia in the field of property management, Trump's victory meant that her plans to return to the US are postponed for a long time.

“Right now, I have no intention of returning at all until I am confident that America will survive this test,” she says.

Galina was an ardent supporter of Bernie Sanders and asked to name only her name because of the complex nature of her decision.

“At this point, I don’t believe Trump will be a good president, let alone on security issues. I'm afraid that he will raze the country to the ground, that he will anger the wrong people and it will lead to a world war or a terrorist attack. Besides, he is a disgrace to America,” she said.

Among other reasons why she prefers to stay in Australia, Galina cites subsidies allocated by the government for health care, a ban on the free carrying of weapons, free education and higher wages.

Marisa, the married mother of 2 children, hails from the south of the United States, said she was going to apply for dual citizenship in a European country where her grandmother and grandfather were born.

Her grandfather was a permanent resident of the United States, but did not naturalize.

She is concerned about the choice of members of the new president’s administration and upcoming reforms that could limit the rights of people living in the United States.

In addition, she said, she was tired of living in a place where racism and xenophobia flourish. People around her constantly talk about how Trump is the president who will send immigrants home and put these people “in their place.”

Marisa, who did not want to disclose her last name, said that they also used much more offensive expressions.

She says that her older brother has already filed an application, and he was given dual citizenship.

Neither she nor he plans to leave right now, but Marisa’s husband has already started looking for work in Europe, and soon she will do the same.

At the moment for her is a backup plan, which she is quite ready to implement.

... Sarah had no idea that she or her family would ever have to leave the country. She says she is very upset. He always thought he would raise his daughters in the USA.

“But I have to protect them,” she says. “In my right mind, I cannot stay here when I have the opportunity to leave.”

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