Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
February 25, 2026 More [U.S.] citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries. “I wasn’t expecting to be surrounded by this many Americans.” enviable salaries. “I wasn’t expecting to be surded by this many Americans.”More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn The Charles Bridge in Prague. MICHAEL PROBST/ASSOCIATED PRESS b y a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries. “I wasn’t expecting to be surrounded by this many Americans.” By Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson, The Wall Street Journal , Feb. 25, 2026 7:00 pm ET; original article contains graphs. In its 250th year, is America, land of immigration, becoming a country of emigration? Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression : More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulf...