re: Fortune: America is becoming the ‘uncool’ country that people want to move away from

Perhaps net "legal" migration, but not including illegals.

And most Americans have not "migrated" anywhere.

Just because you are a student living abroad for a few years, or working abroad, doesn't mean you have migrated.

Very few Americans change citizenship and very few move away permanently.

According to Chat GPT, only about 5,000 Americans per year actually change their citizenship.

Lefty loons hate America. Can we throw them in with the ICE deportees and send them packing? Hear the middle east, Iran, Mexico, etc are definitely open for their business since they love their people so much.

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When George Clooney secured French citizenship last year and confirmed that his family’s main home is now a farm in Provence, it sent a strong message about the standing of the American Dream. Clooney has been unusually blunt about what the move represents: a bet that his children would have a “much better life” in a country where fame matters less, privacy laws are stronger, and childhood can be more ordinary than it would be in Los Angeles.

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This is a terrible example. George Clooney and his kids’ issues are not applicable to most people.

An actual issue is when you have large numbers of highly educated and high earning young professionals choosing to take their families elsewhere. That isn’t happening yet on a meaningful scale, but acting as if it could never happen would be foolish.

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I don't believe this for a second

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that includes all the people Trump deported

They suspiciously left out one category of ex-pats: single dudes who gave up on trying to court American women and sail off to distant shores looking for "traditional women" who take pride in their appearance/figure, embrace their roles as homemakers and are ecstatic to find a man with disposable income who wont beat them in a drunken rage.

frick Clooney....he was in the business a LONG time before he made it big...he KNEW what fame (and the MONEY) meant long before he got it....why didn't he just quit acting and go be a plumber if he wanted to avoid the fame

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I'd be fine with only 200 million or so.

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Don't throw out the baby with the bath water. Less people sounds good on paper, but our economy would be in the shitter with only 200 million people.

Globally, we're not far off from what is believed to be peak population. Depends on who you ask, but we are projected to peak in the middle to second half of this century somewhere in the neighborhood of 9-10 billion. Kind of crazy to think we may be alive at peak population.

25 Schmeckles are worth approximately $3,700 USD.

I don't think its America becoming "uncool" but more of the boom in remote work jobs in recent years has given people opportunities they never had before on where to live, especially younger workers who don't have kids and can relocate easily. They can move to exotic locations and a live a more comfortable lifestyle thanks to cheaper cost of living compared to being in the US. And then move somewhere new whenever you want a change of scenery. I think the younger generation uses the term "digital nomad".

I bet there's a lot of millennials and gen X on this board who would have jumped at the chance if remote work was a thing when we were in our 20's and early 30's. Live like a king in another country on a salary that you'd be living paycheck to paycheck on in the US.

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Clooney has been unusually blunt about what the move represents: a bet that his children would have a “much better life” in a country where fame matters less, privacy laws are stronger, and childhood can be more ordinary than it would be in Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles.

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Literally almost everywhere else in the US other than New York City can provide a "more ordinary" life for celebrities who want to avoid the spotlight and paparazzi.

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frick em. GTFO and take some of these illegals with you.