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Americans Suddenly Very Interested in Moving to Another Country

Donald Trump’s victory coincided with an unprecedented wave of Google searches about emigrating.

Americans started furiously researching how to move to a different country as a looming second Donald Trump presidency was confirmed this week. Google searches for “move to Canada” spiked 1,270 percent in the 24 hours after East Coast polls closed Tuesday, according to Reuters, while similar queries about moving to New Zealand jumped almost 2,000 percent and those for Australia increased 820 percent. A Google official told the news agency that late Wednesday on the East Coast, searches about emigrating to those three countries were at an all-time high. While Google doesn’t disclose raw numbers, data from New Zealand’s immigration site showed around 25,000 new U.S. users visited on Nov. 7—compared to just 1,500 on the same day last year. Evan Green, a managing partner at Green and Spiegel—the oldest immigration law firm—similarly reported being inundated with interest. “Every half hour there is a new email enquiry,” Green told Reuters.

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