It comes as no surprise to me. I watch Japanese youtubers and they show how cheap houses are there, how cheap transporation is, how cheap food is. We live in the age of the Internet and it's becoming abundantly clear that you can live a higher quality of life with a lower cost of living in many other countries compared to the USA.
I have a question.
Our southern border has like no security. Tens of millions of illegals have crossed the border and more cross into this country every day. It would be quite accurate to describe the USA as the easiest country to enter, out of all countries in the world. It's the easiest to enter the USA.
However the USA is one of the most difficult to leave. If a poor wants to renounce their USA citizenship, they have to go to a USA consul's office and pay a fee of $2,350.
However if they have a net worth of more than 2 million dollars, the USA imposes an "exit fee" that applies a larger amount of tax in order to renounce your citizenship.
And I'm sure that the IRS and Feds will be looking you up for years to come, hoping to tax anything else they can find.
Youtuber Louis Rossman has an ongoing saga of videos relating to moving out of NY and how the NYS government keeps looking him up years later trying to tax him again.
So my question:
Is the USA a roach motel? Because it sure seems like one.