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Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.

 
Nov 14 2025, 9:16 AM
#1
https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-women-leave.aspx

https://archive.ph/YRYSf

Quote:The sharp rise in younger women wanting to leave the U.S. has created a large gender gap between them and their male counterparts. Today’s 21-percentage-point gap between younger men (19%) and women (40%) wanting to leave the U.S. is the widest Gallup has recorded on this trend.

Since Gallup began measuring this question globally in 2007, few countries have shown gender gaps this wide in the desire to migrate. Before the U.S. in 2025, no country had recorded a gap of 20 points or more between younger men and women.
Elsacat
Nov 14 2025, 9:16 AM #1

https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-women-leave.aspx

https://archive.ph/YRYSf

Quote:The sharp rise in younger women wanting to leave the U.S. has created a large gender gap between them and their male counterparts. Today’s 21-percentage-point gap between younger men (19%) and women (40%) wanting to leave the U.S. is the widest Gallup has recorded on this trend.

Since Gallup began measuring this question globally in 2007, few countries have shown gender gaps this wide in the desire to migrate. Before the U.S. in 2025, no country had recorded a gap of 20 points or more between younger men and women.

Clover
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Nov 18 2025, 8:34 PM
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Quote:In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups.

Canary in the coal mine...

This kind of matches up with my male partner and I. I'm glad I don't feel alone and there's other women out there who want to leave. There's been a lot of news coming up lately that make me feel the "I'm glad I'm not alone" feeling.

But yeah, I've been more "seriously" looking into leaving the country. I have this internal feeling of wanting to escape. I feel trapped and physically stressed. I don't think I'll seriously be able to do anything, but I just keep thinking... what is worth it here anymore? Honestly, the "best" thing we probably got is the First Amendment, and even that feels iffy right now with this current freak-ass authoritarian administration. And if the "best" thing this country has is the same thing that allows its people to shout slurs at people and be mega sexist/racist/homophobic/xenophobic/etc... um... yeah... maybe I got nothing then.

Whenever I look about immigrating to Canada or Europe or something, I ask my partner what he thinks, and he thinks "we'll be okay." And like, okay, maybe... Honestly, I just want some damn decent healthcare without needing to "prove my worth to have it" by having a stable job with "benefits." The "benefit" of only having to pay some hundreds/thousands bucks for treatments instead of tens to hundreds of thousands... wow such a "benefit." Living in this country is a greater detriment to my health than any "benefits" I get from a corpo job. I'm feel so sick and tired of this terrible for-profit country. Everything's expensive, everything's corrupt, everything's set up to drain your money, and once you don't have any, well enjoy being treated like a leper. So gross. I hate it. The other things keeping me from seriously moving is climate change, I live in a "decent" area for projected weather changes; and my sister and mother are here, I don't want to abandon them.Β 

Anyway, yeah, my male partner and I correlate with these stats: I would leave, he's meh.

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Nov 18 2025, 8:34 PM #2

Quote:In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups.

Canary in the coal mine...

This kind of matches up with my male partner and I. I'm glad I don't feel alone and there's other women out there who want to leave. There's been a lot of news coming up lately that make me feel the "I'm glad I'm not alone" feeling.

But yeah, I've been more "seriously" looking into leaving the country. I have this internal feeling of wanting to escape. I feel trapped and physically stressed. I don't think I'll seriously be able to do anything, but I just keep thinking... what is worth it here anymore? Honestly, the "best" thing we probably got is the First Amendment, and even that feels iffy right now with this current freak-ass authoritarian administration. And if the "best" thing this country has is the same thing that allows its people to shout slurs at people and be mega sexist/racist/homophobic/xenophobic/etc... um... yeah... maybe I got nothing then.

Whenever I look about immigrating to Canada or Europe or something, I ask my partner what he thinks, and he thinks "we'll be okay." And like, okay, maybe... Honestly, I just want some damn decent healthcare without needing to "prove my worth to have it" by having a stable job with "benefits." The "benefit" of only having to pay some hundreds/thousands bucks for treatments instead of tens to hundreds of thousands... wow such a "benefit." Living in this country is a greater detriment to my health than any "benefits" I get from a corpo job. I'm feel so sick and tired of this terrible for-profit country. Everything's expensive, everything's corrupt, everything's set up to drain your money, and once you don't have any, well enjoy being treated like a leper. So gross. I hate it. The other things keeping me from seriously moving is climate change, I live in a "decent" area for projected weather changes; and my sister and mother are here, I don't want to abandon them.Β 

Anyway, yeah, my male partner and I correlate with these stats: I would leave, he's meh.


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Nov 19 2025, 7:28 PM
#3
I go back and forth about leaving. Health care and lower cost of living are two incentives. I don't plan to retire for some years yet, but I hate that I HAVE to work full time, all the time, to have any kind of affordable health insurance (and what I currently have is still high deductible and not that good). If I've paid my taxes and saved my money, why the hell can't I take some time off without having to worry about affording health care? Especially when it takes 3-6 months or more to get in to see a doctor who isn't that good to begin with. Americans are paying to have the same health care experiences that people who live in socialized health-care countries get just by paying their taxes.
Elsacat
Nov 19 2025, 7:28 PM #3

I go back and forth about leaving. Health care and lower cost of living are two incentives. I don't plan to retire for some years yet, but I hate that I HAVE to work full time, all the time, to have any kind of affordable health insurance (and what I currently have is still high deductible and not that good). If I've paid my taxes and saved my money, why the hell can't I take some time off without having to worry about affording health care? Especially when it takes 3-6 months or more to get in to see a doctor who isn't that good to begin with. Americans are paying to have the same health care experiences that people who live in socialized health-care countries get just by paying their taxes.

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Nov 19 2025, 8:24 PM
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(Nov 19 2025, 7:28 PM)Elsacat I don't plan to retire for some years yet, but I hate that I HAVE to work full time, all the time, to have any kind of affordable health insurance (and what I currently have is still high deductible and not that good). If I've paid my taxes and saved my money, why the hell can't I take some time off without having to worry about affording health care? Especially when it takes 3-6 months or more to get in to see a doctor who isn't that good to begin with.

Seriously!! Same. I hate it so much. If I didn't have to worry about healthcare I would quit my job like yesterday. I'd feel much better just coasting on savings and decompressing/recovering from work burnout knowing that I'm not one sudden injury away from fucking bankruptcy. Like, such bullshit. Ass. Angery. (Honestly, as an aside, I'm so burnt out at my job that even the threat of losing healthcare is not holding me back much anymore...)

(Nov 19 2025, 7:28 PM)Elsacat Americans are paying to have the same health care experiences that people who live in socialized health-care countries get just by paying their taxes.

Are we getting "the same health care" though? Are we? :harold: I suppose it depends on the job, which is even more archaic, huh? Like there's "tiers" of healthcare too, because capitalist USA isn't done with the hierarchy of "who deserves basic human rights like being healed?" game. Like, if you work at a crappy job, they'll offer some kind of shitty healthcare plan, which you sometimes need to pay for (though every employee is "paying for" stupid private health insurance one way or another, it just depends on if the employer is just factoring into your paycheck/salary already). But like, every time I want to go to the doctor, optometrist, dentist, for anything other than a routine checkup, that's a co-pay right there. Yeah, insurance pays for some things 100%, but for many others, we got the co-pays, we got the deductibles, we got the co-insurance. It's all a fucking scam. Isn't there some data done somewhere that a single-payer healthcare system would save United States citizens money over keeping our stupid private insurances?

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Nov 19 2025, 8:24 PM #4

(Nov 19 2025, 7:28 PM)Elsacat I don't plan to retire for some years yet, but I hate that I HAVE to work full time, all the time, to have any kind of affordable health insurance (and what I currently have is still high deductible and not that good). If I've paid my taxes and saved my money, why the hell can't I take some time off without having to worry about affording health care? Especially when it takes 3-6 months or more to get in to see a doctor who isn't that good to begin with.

Seriously!! Same. I hate it so much. If I didn't have to worry about healthcare I would quit my job like yesterday. I'd feel much better just coasting on savings and decompressing/recovering from work burnout knowing that I'm not one sudden injury away from fucking bankruptcy. Like, such bullshit. Ass. Angery. (Honestly, as an aside, I'm so burnt out at my job that even the threat of losing healthcare is not holding me back much anymore...)

(Nov 19 2025, 7:28 PM)Elsacat Americans are paying to have the same health care experiences that people who live in socialized health-care countries get just by paying their taxes.

Are we getting "the same health care" though? Are we? :harold: I suppose it depends on the job, which is even more archaic, huh? Like there's "tiers" of healthcare too, because capitalist USA isn't done with the hierarchy of "who deserves basic human rights like being healed?" game. Like, if you work at a crappy job, they'll offer some kind of shitty healthcare plan, which you sometimes need to pay for (though every employee is "paying for" stupid private health insurance one way or another, it just depends on if the employer is just factoring into your paycheck/salary already). But like, every time I want to go to the doctor, optometrist, dentist, for anything other than a routine checkup, that's a co-pay right there. Yeah, insurance pays for some things 100%, but for many others, we got the co-pays, we got the deductibles, we got the co-insurance. It's all a fucking scam. Isn't there some data done somewhere that a single-payer healthcare system would save United States citizens money over keeping our stupid private insurances?


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Nov 20 2025, 8:40 AM
#5
There probably is data to that effect, but it would put health insurance companies out of business. Or drastically reduce business. The US is all about social safety nets for business and capitalism, so we'll never see a change there.

I'm about ready to coast on savings for a while too. So burnt out, I'm a walking bbq joint.
Elsacat
Nov 20 2025, 8:40 AM #5

There probably is data to that effect, but it would put health insurance companies out of business. Or drastically reduce business. The US is all about social safety nets for business and capitalism, so we'll never see a change there.

I'm about ready to coast on savings for a while too. So burnt out, I'm a walking bbq joint.

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Nov 20 2025, 10:01 PM
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πŸ«‚ I feel you. Hang in there. :harold:
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Nov 20 2025, 10:01 PM #6

πŸ«‚ I feel you. Hang in there. :harold:

Impress Polly
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Nov 21 2025, 12:15 AM
#7
Tbh, we thought about leaving the U.S. very seriously ourselves too back in September during the height of the Charlie Kook national meltdown. Remember like when Kimmel got kicked off the air by the FCC for speculating about the motives of the shooter? Yeah right about then I thought to myself "Y'know, maybe it's time to just get the hell out of here while it's still safe to!" Checked with my wife and she felt the same way. We actually began actively looking for possible places to move to in three other countries. Mercifully, that atmosphere didn't last and I am in fact now less afraid of the Trump presidency than I've been in a while. But yeah, things got pretty damn scary there for a bit!
Edited Nov 21 2025, 12:18 AM by Impress Polly.
Impress Polly
The kind they warned you about.
Nov 21 2025, 12:15 AM #7

Tbh, we thought about leaving the U.S. very seriously ourselves too back in September during the height of the Charlie Kook national meltdown. Remember like when Kimmel got kicked off the air by the FCC for speculating about the motives of the shooter? Yeah right about then I thought to myself "Y'know, maybe it's time to just get the hell out of here while it's still safe to!" Checked with my wife and she felt the same way. We actually began actively looking for possible places to move to in three other countries. Mercifully, that atmosphere didn't last and I am in fact now less afraid of the Trump presidency than I've been in a while. But yeah, things got pretty damn scary there for a bit!

Nov 21 2025, 8:45 AM
#8
We're not even a year into The Worst Administration Ever (For Now). Things could get worse. It's still worthwhile to look at options, especially because regardless of the current administration, it can still be less expensive to just exist in some other countries. It's working well for friends of mine who retired to Central America.
Elsacat
Nov 21 2025, 8:45 AM #8

We're not even a year into The Worst Administration Ever (For Now). Things could get worse. It's still worthwhile to look at options, especially because regardless of the current administration, it can still be less expensive to just exist in some other countries. It's working well for friends of mine who retired to Central America.

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