After Canada, Americans Now Consider Moving to New Zealand
What started as puns and jokes of leaving the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave when Trump gets elected as president is now a living nightmare to the supporters of the Democratic party. After news on Canada's immigration website crash trended, Americans now eye on migrating to New Zealand.
Even prominent individuals did not miss out being engrossed by the idea of moving out of the country. According to The Washing Post, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is among those who joked, or maybe even really meant, saying they would move to New Zealand in the event of a Trump presidency.
The Independent UK reports that the number of Americans visiting the New Zealand's immigration website has increased by 24 times in the last day. The visits from the U.S. spiked to 56,300 coming from an average of only 2,300 a day. Sources confirm that in the same period, the number of Americans who registered their interest in moving to New Zealand has reached more than 7,000, which is over twice as much the monthly average.
This is quite a familiar scene several months after Brexit when Britons had the same spikes of interest. Sources confirm that 2016 marks the year with the highest levels of immigration for New Zealand. Contributing to this are the Americans who already took action a month before the U.S. presidential election.
Even NZ-based software firm Xero has received an influx of job queries. The company's Chief Executive Rod Drury told Reuters: "I've got lots of messages coming through at the moment asking for a job in New Zealand, and we're saying 'Yes you can'"
Aside from Canada and New Zealand, reports tell that other countries also face a surge in interested immigrants as their way out from U.S. after Trump's win. This can be confirmed with the Google Analysis showing the terms "Australia immigration" having the most searches from people in Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Virginia, and California.
