American dream long over ! A new study shows that more US citizens than ever before are living outside of the US.
New York / NationalTurk – Statistics from the US State Department indicate around 6.4 million Americans are either working or studying overseas, which Gallup Research Company states is the largest number ever for such statistic.
The polling organization came across the number after conducting surveys in 135 outside nations and the information behind the numbers show that this isn’t exactly a longtime coming either — numbers have skyrocketed only in recent years. In the 2 years before polling began, the number of Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 living in other countries managed to surge from barely 1 percent to over 5.1 percent. For those under the age span wishing to move overseas, the percentage has jumped in the same amount of time from 15 percent to 40.
Escape from America / Americans prefer overseas for work
While the United States of America was at one point (and largely still is) a magnet for foreigners in search of employment, the statistics makes it clear that an opposite trend is quickly picking up steam.
“There’s a feeling among more entrepreneurial Americans that if you really want to get anything done, you have to get out of country and away from the depressing atmosphere,” Bob Adams of America Wave tells Reuters. “There’s a sense of lost direction, so more people are looking for locations that offer more hope about the future.”
Many of those leaving the US have job skills that would transfer quite well in the American market. Instead, however, they prefer to bring those out of the United States, attracted instead to opportunities elsewhere, escaping the lifelessness and bad economy in the USA.
While USA offers some labor opportunities unmatched outside of the United States, the country has also been struggling dire economic statistics since the start of the Barack Obama administration, with jobless benefit claims soaring in recent months, and only last week did the Department of Labor reveal an unemployment statistic below 9 %. On the contrary, the number of American citizens that want full-time work and have given up on finding it or unable to locate it is closer to double that figure, while at the same time many of America’s largest employers have outsourced positions across the world.
If America shuts down space program, i’ll work elsewhere !
Banking giant Goldman Sachs announced earlier this year that in the wake of a recession, they would finally be creating 1,000 new positions, yet making them available only to workers in Singapore. Other industries, significantly American, have been relocated as well; the ending of NASA’s space shuttle program this year left many intelligent US citizens with little choice but to continue in their field outside of the United States of America.
“We’ve pretty much outsourced everything else,” aerospace technician Giovanni Pinzon tells NT. He was left scrambling for a job after years working in America’s space program.
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