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Great article! Just too bad others won't take the time to read it.
Fortune reports net migration in the US has actually turned negative — more people are leaving than arriving — for the first time since the Great Depression. This isn't a fringe movement anymore. It's a trend.
The Economist just put into words what brought me to Buenos Aires
I've been living in Argentina for a while now, and I still get asked the same question by locals:
"But why would you leave America?" I used to fumble through the answer. Now I just send them this Economist article.
For me it wasn't one single thing. It was an accumulation. The political polarization, the feeling that there's no middle ground, the endless debates that seem to generate nothing but exhaustion and division — at some point I just got tired of it. Jessica Cellura, a teacher from North Carolina who also left, described it perfectly: "I feel like the America as we knew it growing up is slipping away pretty fast." That sentence hit me hard because it's exactly how I felt sitting in my apartment back home, scrolling through the news every morning wondering what had broken overnight.
In the first quarter of 2025 alone, departures of US citizens were 102% higher than the same period the year before. We are not a handful of eccentrics. We are a wave.
And here's the part that genuinely humbles me since moving to Argentina: one global mobility report pointed out that Americans are now "catching up to their Latin American counterparts, who have long suffered the consequences of societal instability and traditionally recognized the value of having an exit option." I read that and felt a little embarrassed, honestly. Argentines have been navigating political chaos, economic crises, and institutional collapse for decades — and doing so with a resilience and dark humor that I find remarkable. I showed up here running
away from uncertainty. Most people here were born into it and built a life anyway.
That's been the unexpected lesson of living in Buenos Aires: the US does not have a monopoly on a good life. Not even close. The food, the culture, the sense of community, the
pace — things I didn't even know I was missing. Yes, the economy here is complicated and inflation is no joke. But I wake up without that constant low-grade dread I carried around for years back home.
I'm not saying Argentina is perfect or that I've got it all figured out. But for the first time in a long time, I feel like I made a decision for my life rather than just reacting to the news cycle.
To anyone back in the States still on the fence: the article is worth reading. And if you find yourself nodding along — maybe that nod means something.
