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The great relocation · 2026
More people are rethinking where they live than in living memory
The move abroad is no longer fringe. The numbers behind the quietest migration of the decade, and why a fixed income is the reason as often as adventure.
180,000
left the United States in 2025, the largest outbound flow in decades.
Global Citizen Solutions
1 in 5
Americans say they would leave permanently if they could, roughly double the 2015 share.
Gallup, 2025
5.5M
already live abroad, a population the government does not formally track.
AARO
~$2,000
the average monthly Social Security check: a comfortable life or a daily struggle, depending entirely on where it is spent.
SSA, 2025
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