If you figure out where you want to go, I’d be interested. Frankly my wife and I have thought about leaving the country. Best countries are S. Korea, Taiwan or Japan, but obviously they all have their own issues, fear of China/N.Korea etc. But all of them are much more sane than America is now. But you would have to make a huge cultural shift. Both my wife and I understand some Japanese and Korean (she basically though is fluent in Japanese and way ahead of me in Korean). If Hillary had become president, we would seriously have considered going to S.Korea and had that as a contingency plan.
Damn, you sound a lot like my thinking. I suspect that even 90% of Republicans DID NOT understand that if Skunk Cabbage won in 2016, there was no going back short of Civil War, which likely wasn’t going to happen. It would have been no different than 1917, when Lennon takes over in Russia. Eventually people figure it out and overthrow, but it takes GENERATIONS before that happens (look at Iran, now, for example - over 40 years of Mullahs).
To the NeverTrumpers, they had it ‘all figured out’. We’d suffer through 2 years of Hillary, and then elect a bunch of Republicans to stop her.
...except, by then, it would be too late. With Garland on the Supreme Court and most other courts already Left-Wing, literally EVERYTHING Skunk Cabbage did to bypass Congress (think DACA on steroids) would have been upheld. We’d have several hundred Republicans in DC, totally powerless.
So, now, where are we? In my opinion, Trump’s first term buys us time, should Skunk Cabbage manage to win in 2020, so I won’t be packing suitcases in Feb. 2021 (as I planned to do in Feb 2017). I may still pack then, but I won’t leave until I’ve confirmed that it is indeed over.
By the way, as far as getting money out of the US, I think one way to do it might be through ATMs. For example, if you have 10 (US) banks, and you pull $800 per month out of each bank, you likely won’t set off alarms, but you will, pretty quickly build up your foreign currency holdings. Other than that, it’s quite challenging. [and thinking a bit more, if I ‘divorce’ my wife, then our accounts are separate, and we likely could pull out twice as much]
Also, have you looked into Japan’s rules for allowing high-quality immigrants to re-locate there (I know, odd concept for Americans...to give a crap regarding who settles in one’s country)? Obviously, I don’t know your background, but for people who can actually CONTRIBUTE (I know, foreign concept) to their society, they’ll let you settle there.