Posted on 03/20/2024 2:44:50 AM PDT by Libloather
For years, aging Americans have looked south to Florida for their ideal retirement home to escape into retirement from their four-decade grinds in the U.S. workforce.
But wealthy citizens are increasingly considering a life across the Atlantic, with an unappealing showdown between Joe Biden and Donald Trump being labeled as the reason.
David, a 65-year-old lawyer from Chicago, is going to Portugal on a scouting trip next month with a $500,000 budget in the hopes of finding a new second home on the Silver Coast, between Lisbon and Porto.
The lawyer, who asked to remain anonymous, citing concerns he might be harassed, said the political climate had turned so toxic that he was driven to seek peace across the Atlantic.
As the grandson of four immigrants who landed on Ellis Island, David has become particularly perturbed by debate in the U.S. around immigration.
“This country of mine has become intolerant,” David says.
“This country has always vilified people who are not like them. So we see these pictures of people on the south of the border, and they're just people, but both sides use them for political reasons, and that's just one example of the absolute intolerance, and it's sad.”
The lawyer is also moving to escape the looming threat of gun violence.
“I told my wife about 15 years ago that I had made peace with the fact that I could be shot dead at any moment in time in this country,” David said.
David is hoping to close a deal before the U.S. elections in November, because he believes that if Trump secures a second term as President, demand for homes abroad could skyrocket.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Seems tolerance is more welcomed than offered by those looking to leave.
Yahoo? Bwahahahahahah.
‘Nuff said.
“This country of mine has become intolerant”
It sound like the guy finally figured out the blacks in Chicago hate him and want to harm him.
Blaming President Trump is virtue signaling.
Say what you want, but then PROVE it, or explain how/why it matters. And explain what policies or actions he took as president that you disagree with. I am so sick of hearing idiots say “I don’t like the way he says things.”
My comment isn’t meant to imply that you are saying anything negative about him, btw. Just venting my frustration with the constant accusations that “Trump is a liar”, never backed up with a single example.
Great!
Leave already if you don’t like it here.
“David, a 65-year-old lawyer from Chicago, is going to Portugal on a scouting trip next month...”
David is a blowhard who is leaving the dangers of Chicago and always wanted to have a place in Portugal. He’s also an attention seeking whore.
The wife and I had long time planned to retire in the Caribbean. We made scouting trips to numerous places and bought a house (now two) on the beach in the Caribbean. I have retired and she will be retired shortly. Do you think Fortune would report my story if I told them I left to avoid the tyranny of Biden?
EC
Take more with you,
While Trump supporters are being jailed for fake crimes.
Big issue for me is they still get to vote in US elections pretty much where they want. If you abandon the country, you should not be able to continue to vote here.
Is this a significant trend, or is that magazine just trying to work-up another anti-Trump headline?
This reads of "messaging" and "marketing."
Don’t need to meet them if they stay gone.
Anecdotal tale of woe. I may shed a tear over it.
People have been looking at Portugal, and other countries, as an alternative to US since Trump was president during covid. Cheaper living isn’t necessarily political. A stupid article
“As the grandson of four immigrants who landed on Ellis Island...”
Well, my wife is a LEGAL immigrant from Asia, and she supports stopping the hordes of illegals. My BIL’s parents immigrated legally from Poland after WW2. He wants illegal immigration to stop. I have a couple of kids adopted from foreign countries who came here and became US citizens legally, and they want it to stop. I have neighbors who came here illegally from Mexico (as babies) in the 60s who were granted amnesty by Reagan, and they want it stopped.
So no, the lawyer’s status of having legal immigrant grandparents doesn’t count for squat!
lol...yeah, please, move to Europe. Try London, Paris, Berlin, or Malmo. Suck up and consume the multi-culturalism and HAVE FUN!! ...and once you realize saying anything negative is A CRIME - you might realize just how amazing the USA actually is, maybe because of those evil firearms!
He must have ran out of places to rob has to hunt for new grounds to keep robbing.
Unfortunately they will probably keep voting here.
That is a shame. i really liked visiting Portugal a few years ago. Perhaps he’d be happier in South Africa.
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