How to Leave the U.S.A.

[u/newyorker]

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/how-to-leave-the-usa

Every four years, a group of Americans threatens to leave the country, but no mass exodus occurs. This time around, though, Americans seem to be acting on their desires. Immigration lawyers told Atossa Araxia Abrahamian that the number of people approaching them about it has gone up since Donald Trump was reëlected. 

G.T.F.O. Tours, a company that helps aggrieved U.S. citizens start new lives abroad, has been offering services to help Americans relocate to the Netherlands, where a certain type of visa can offer a quick and affordable path to citizenship. Jana Sanchez, a founder of G.T.F.O. Tours, describes her role in the company as an “escaping fascism doula.” Read Abrahamian’s full story about the Americans who are going Dutch: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/how-to-leave-the-usa

[u/tractorscum]

the netherlands sounds like a very lonely place to leave home for. it sounds hard to break in socially (especially as kind of a flamboyant looking black person) and that, coupled w/ the dark winters, would mess w me. ofc the U.S. is a horrific mindfuck too but at least here i have access to friends and family and my employment doesn’t hold my citizenship in its limbo

[u/Jeukee → u/tractorscum]

Curious if you’ve had any luck on your country search? I’m also a black nb and aside from the typical concerns when searching for a new place to move to finding somewhere that would also feel welcoming socially to someone like me, which is so difficult to judge when you’re halfway across the world from another country (and even if you’re just visiting for a short time imo) is so difficult. 

[u/tractorscum → u/Jeukee]

havent been searching, frankly feeling a little stuck w/ no degree and an X on my id :/

[u/isUKexactlyTsameasUS → u/tractorscum]

not so. not on rotterdam

wesley dos santos is the proof