But where will Americans go? This is the world’s last best hope and most nations don’t have such open border policies.
Re: “Where will Americans go?”
Likely many of the same places they have already been going for the last few decades. There are already American expats living all over the world, getting businesses off the ground on every continent. Check out the engineering and management staffs of many (I did not write “all.” I wrote “many.”) of the the semiconductor fabs in SE Asia, for example.
Re: “most nations don’t have such open border policies.”
Actually, many attractive nations do, in fact, have pretty open border policies for the productive young (”young” in this context meaning “not retired or close to retirement”). The productive young — and they alone — are the people that this article is about. Even famously monoethnic Japan has granted Japanese citizenship to productive Gaijin. I met a Japanese citizen from Poland on the Shinkansen one day. He’d been granted Japanese citizenship for himself and his entire Polish family because his kiretsu needed his skillset. As for other attractive countries — New Zealand, for example — getting in if you are properly educated and trained is apparently pretty straightforward.
So, don’t fool yourself. There are plenty of countries that can, and want to, take productive young people from the USA.
Maybe they'll go to the only nation that still values liberty. I'm speaking, of course, of Honduras.
Let me put it to you this way, I’m learning Polish.
They won’t leave, they’ll “go Galt.” It’ll be like Greece.
Neither of them could find work at home, which is absolutely heart breaking to me and their mother. Especially since our little girl is starting to put roots down in Montreal, she may never come home.
there are always other frontiers!
there will always be a places where people who want to work hard and be free can find a place
“This is the world’s last best hope”
Word.
I am one of the chump generation trying to leave Canada to move to the USA. I am sooo sick of the tax and spend folks.
Yeah, where? My kids go to an international school is Sweden. It's made up of expats and Swedes who were expats but were sent back home. They send their kids to international school because THEY CAN NOT WAIT TO GET OUT AGAIN and they all openly vocalize it. That'll be us. Brain drain...but to where?
I have carefully maintained my daughter’s dual citizenship in Israel, in no small part for this reason.
(I also want to go home, but that’s not the main reason.)