Title: Where are Americans emigrating to and why | Aetna International
Headings: Where are Americans emigrating to and why?
Where are Americans emigrating to and why?
What’s happening?
Where are people going?
Why are Americans emigrating?
Ecuador
China and Singapore
Europe
Language barriers
Bottom of the table
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Content: As such China and Singapore have been receiving large numbers of Americans as their economies grow and opportunity follows — especially Singapore with its thriving financial centre, multinational banks and professional services firms. Head to our destination guide for an insight into Singaporean life. Latterly, China has become a growing draw for Americans as the Chinese government allowed increasing trade with the outside world. This has not only created opportunity for American firms, but put Western skillsets in high demand in Chinese multinationals. But the Chinese gold rush has already slowed in parallel with Chinese economic growth. As the bright lights of opportunity dim, many Americans have decided that money alone will not keep them there and many expats are leaving citing air pollution in major cities as a major turn off. Europe
One in four Americans leaving the U.S. moves to Europe. The small nation of Luxembourg may seem an obscure and esoteric choice but as well as being a hub for professional services and banking industries, it is also home to the European Court of Justice, the European Investment Bank and other major organisations. Language barriers
As well as career, culture is an important draw, and an obvious pattern is the number of English-speaking nations in the top countries, from Canada and the UK in the top ten destinations, to New Zealand and Bermuda further down the list. Bottom of the table
The nations with the smallest American expat communities include Kuwait, Greece and Nigeria.