What are the differences between Americans who are interested in or planning to relocate and their peers who are not interested? Are there any personality characteristics that separate the two groups?
If you follow the media on the topic of Americans living overseas, you will think that the great majority are retirees seeking a lower cost of living, warmer weather, or some other goal associated in many people’s minds with retirement.
Are people with college degrees more likely to relocate than those without degrees?
How does level of household income impact global relocation?
Of those who are in the planning stages for relocation, the statistics show two dramatic shifts when divided by age group.
These are the people in our surveys who answered the question, “Are you planning to relocate to another nation for more than two years for reasons other than the requirements of the military, the government, or your job?” by responding, “Yes, I plan to relocate outside the US.”
Of the four groups shown above, the “married” category is the largest and the “civil union” category is by far the smallest. The other two are large, but are substantially less than those married.
In this post, we will look at those who chose two other answers to the question, “Are you planning to relocate to another nation for more than two years for reasons other than the requirements of the military, the government, or your job?”
This is one graph that speaks for itself, very simply and very clearly. The shift from self-identified non-investors to investors could not be clearer.
The shift in the ideological leaning of those already planning relocation from2007 to 2011 is dramatic.