September 24, 2026 • 17 mins
Samantha shines a light on a new hobby, engages in some daydreaming and solicits advice.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie. And Samantha. And welcome to Stuff
I Never Told You, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And welcome to another edition of Happy Hour, where I'm
just going to talk about my new obsessions.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
That's the whole series I think I'm doing. Yeah. Without
knowing I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
You do have several outlines proposed that have to do
with Not necessarily your particular obsession, but like.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Things that could be.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Well, anyway, all that to say is, this is this
happy hour. But before we start, please know, unless we
specify it's typically not sponsored, who knows? Things can change.
We love that. Please sponsor us. We are a good group.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Legally, we have to say if they're currently sponsoring us.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But that doesn't mean that in the future... It won't
be a sponsor. Correct. And with that, this is also
a happy hour episode.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That means we're probably doing happy hour-ish things.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Annie, are you doing happy hour-ish things?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I am. I have some red wine, as usual.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Red wine, red wine.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, I'm sticking with my bubble water because we are
very busy and I can't be sleepy right now. Although
I'm always sleepy, Annie.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
That's rough.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
That's a rough situation to be in.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It is, right? And if you're doing anything happy, please
do so responsibly because we care about you.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And if you need to do productive things and it
makes you sleepy, don't do it. Or if you do,
give yourself time to have a break.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah. That's the advice.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I will say I went to the doctor today because
I had blood work recently.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And it says that my possible low B12.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Slash.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So I had to go back for more work. So
that would make a lot more sense. I have always,
since high school, I've had trouble.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
B12.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Really?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
They've always said, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Well, I'll let y'all know when those come in. I'll
let y'all know because it's so important. No, honestly, today
is all, again, about my new obsession. I have recently, like,
I swore I would never be this person because I have...
So annoyed when I see renovation shows, house shows, because
I know they're all fake. Like, I've had people who
(02:38):
have actually been on them, and they're like, we actually
already had picked out the house. They showed us two
random houses, and we just had to be, like, a
little conflicted, and that's how they did. And I'm talking about, like,
house hunters. Shows like that, HGTV.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Sorry, y'all.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Because my family, so my mom... love some HGTV.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Love, love, love.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
My partner's mom, I don't know if she loves it,
but she'll put it on. I think it's like, at
least this is calm and I don't have to watch
the news. I completely agree with that. I would much
rather watch that. For me, cooking shows has been the
thing that I've kind of run out of cooking shows
because Top Chef is my favorite. When I say cooking show,
I want to say just Top Chef. I don't know
why I said it like that. And currently, there's no
(03:25):
new season. I am still Mad at Tom Colicchio. And
I will say this very loudly. Why haven't you come
to Atlanta? Why haven't you come to Georgia?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
That's absurd.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You went to Greenville, no offense. But you went to
Greenville and Charleston again. Charleston you've already been to.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That's obnoxious. We should start a petition.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And I'm very mad at you for not doing it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I think there's some political reason that he hasn't. Because
Atlanta and Gwinnett, Savannah, Jekyll Island, we have so much.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
That they can come through. Augusta actually has a lot
that you wouldn't know. We have peanuts. We have pecans.
We have peaches. We have apples. What is wrong with you? Okay,
I'm done. This is not the rant, but I will say...
I'm here for it either way. I'm very angry about this.
Someone published this on.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Someone put this on Kristen Kiesch's videos.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I don't know what she watches. I love her, though.
Love you.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Anyway, Padma, I also love you, but you're not there anymore.
Back to my obsessions with that. So I usually typically
watch things like Top Chef, and that's kind of like nice.
But all of a sudden, on YouTube, it started feeding me,
who has been a sponsor, by the way, in the past.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
They've been one of their sponsors. But has been feeding
me shows like Say Yes to the Dress.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And all of a sudden, I'm watching that because I'm like, well,
now I need to know, did they pick this dress?
And why are the mothers so awful or so wonderful?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
One of those two things.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Or now recently, House Hunters, which again, I was like,
I will never watch these. This is just ridiculous because
they're fake, but international version. And I have really gotten
into looking at all these houses and sitting there going, I.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Can afford that. How can I move to there? That
is an amazing house. You know, pick that house. That
house can have sheeps and highland cows. Give me that. Yes,
this is what I've been doing.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So because of this, I have also started researching homes.
I have literally gone into listings to see if any
of these homes could be bought. I found a property, y'all,
in Ireland. I don't know exactly where. I got to
go back and look because I know it's a big, fat,
poor land that has a cute house, a wonderful house
(05:47):
with a church next to it, giant property next to
a pretty big creek. Y'all, I want it. And it
was in the price range. I think they do auctions
on that, so that might not be true because I
don't know the actual cost and how that works in
Ireland and what taxes look like. But I was like,
(06:08):
give me this.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
This is what I want.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So that, of course, fed into my head. Am I
seeing more people leaving? I have at least three friends
who actually uprooted themselves. Two of them are in the Netherlands,
which was like, oh, one of them has two children
and just took them.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And I was like, wow, she did it. Good for her.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I'm so jealous because it's such an interesting thing. Like
it would be difficult enough, me, my partner and a dog.
I could not imagine doing this with children, but apparently
there's quite a bit of people who are doing this.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And so I had to go back because we talked
about this before.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I believe it was a Monday Mini when we talked
about people were talking about leaving and what this looks like.
So there's been some new numbers and I thought we
would discuss this kind of like a Monday Mini, Annie.
So this is from a Yahoo Finance article, and they said,
as the cost of living crisis continues to burden people
across the country, Americans are reportedly fleeing the U.S. at
a rate we haven't seen in nearly a century. An
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estimated 150,000 people fled the country in 2025, leading to
a negative net migration in the U.S., according to the
Wall Street Journal, which notes that such a thing hasn't
happened in America since the Great Depression in 1929. 150,000
people left, which again, compared to the actual population, may
(07:29):
not sound big, but to me, that's huge.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And the fact that these people have, I've been like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
And I do give credit to Yahoo Finance for using
the term fleeing. So I'm like, yep, that's exactly what
is happening. They are fleeing the country. And I wonder,
how are people doing this? So Of course, if you're
one of these people or are considering it, are in
(07:55):
the middle of it, or have done it, please let
me know. Because I need to know how realistic this is.
So the article goes on and says, the estimation shows
that many Americans prefer to live elsewhere, but the number
of these who renounced their citizenship in 2025 suggests many
who left aren't planning on coming back. So approximately 200
to 400 Americans would renounce their citizenship in any given
(08:17):
year before 2009, but the number jumped to almost 5,000.
in 2025, with more renunciations expected in 2026. So all
these numbers are based on 2025. Some of the biggest
jumps have happened in the first term of our current
administration to today. And it's kind of obvious, I think,
(08:40):
of why. And they go on to talk about where
people are going. So, as the Wall Street Journal reports,
nearly all of the 27 countries that make up the
European Union have welcomed record levels of American expats in
the recent years.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So, a lot of people are going to Europe.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And I did notice, because Ireland is on the Euro,
that I was like, it is cheaper to go there
than to go to, like, the UK on the pound system.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
The pound is....
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Mm-hmm. That's how I want to say that, is damn. Yeah.
I don't got enough money for that.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
But Ireland, but their cost of living is higher in
the sense as well as the fact that it's really
hard to get to move into Ireland.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I was trying to use my partner's Irish roots, but
it doesn't go deep enough.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh, yes. I know.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I'm very unhappy about that.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It's interesting because there was another article from the Gallup
poll that was written in November of 2025 talking about
women making up a large number.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
So they wrote this.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 said
they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity.
The current figure is four times higher than 10% who
shared this desire in 2014 when it was generally in
line with other age and gender groups. What has not
changed is where these younger women would like to go.
Canada remains the top preferred destination for younger American women
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looking to leave, with 11% of those in the years
since 2022 mentioning Canada as their top destination ahead of
New Zealand, Italy, and Japan.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I would also like to move to New Zealand. But it's...
They also don't want us. They don't want anybody.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
It's really expensive, too.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I think it's they... They're having kind of a.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Because we've talked about this before, and I said my
country would be New Zealand. um and at the time
which was i think two years ago i don't know
a year ago at least uh they were having their
own conversation about how nobody could afford to live there
and people were leaving so so.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah that's definitely a thing i will say in this
conversation one of the things that they did a point
out is that married women want to leave just as
bad as the single women and are doing so so
this is back to that uh Gallup poll article, between
2024 and 2025, at least two in five younger women, 41%
of those who are married and 45% of those who
(11:24):
are single, said they would like to move abroad permanently
if given the chance. This is the narrowest gap by
marital status among younger women in desire to move that
Gallup has recorded since first asking the question, suggesting that
younger married women increasingly do not view marriage as a
barrier to migration. And I think maybe it's because, like myself,
my partner's like, yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Like, he's ready. He's ready. He's like, let's go.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
We're going. My conversation, because one of the places that
I've seen as more welcoming and easiest to go to,
and also more opportunities, Portugal.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah. Take me to there. Take me to there.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
All these conversations are really interesting because that first article
is talking about how many have actually done so versus
Gallup talking about who wants to go.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And a lot of people are having conversations.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Better plans. Again, this is a very privileged conversation. I
understand this and being able to move. I think one
of the biggest reasons I want, I am really looking
at this and having this like, okay, I can do this.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I can do the time chain. I can do these things.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It's partially because of our current election status. So in
the state of Georgia, like many other places, we have
a governor's runoff, a governor's election. And to me, the
candidates here are much like the presidential candidates. in which
we can have the worst of the worst versus kind
of bad.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
But the kind of bad is workable. I don't agree
with everything Keisha Lance Bottoms has done. There's a lot
of things that I think she did as a mayor
that was really corrupt and need conversations.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
There's a lot of things I think she did well
as well. I think there's a basis in this.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So with that, I think she is someone that we
could have a conversation with and sit down with and
make changes with.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
She's no Mom Donnie. Why is New York so stupidly expensive?
Everybody wants to be there. Especially now. I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
But having Rick Jackson, who has made his billions slash millions,
I think he's a billionaire, off of the Georgia health care,
which is in a crisis and has the worst.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
statistically, in medical care.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Like, where it's covered, who has died, where there's hospitals,
there's been so many closures, where there's so many denials.
We are in a crisis, honestly, here in this state specifically.
And Rick Jackson is a part of that problem. And
what he has said outright was that he wanted to
be like Donald Trump. And what Donald Trump has done
in the first year is make billions off of the
(14:07):
backs of the poor and the lower middle class at this,
you know, and not caring about how we're doing. Literally
seeing gas prices at $ 4 in the state of Georgia,
which I know a lot of other places higher, but
for us has almost doubled.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
In the last year.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
And so like seeing that causes us to have a
moment of like, what do we do? If we have
a Donald Trump in a state level that agrees with
the federal level Donald Trump, then where do we stand?
So I am petrified. honestly, about our system. And y'all,
we're fighting. We're trying to sit here and have those
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moments and make sure we're campaigning. Again, politics is so gross,
but we know and we've seen the damage when you
get the wrong candidate. Greedy candidates who lie a lot.
He lies a lot, which is exactly what Donald Trump did. So,
you know, one for the course. And then talking about
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having the reserve's being at the polls to intimidate people
is concerning. And the fact that we have some of
the highest detention rates for immigrants, and no one's talking
about it because there are those here that are more
accepting of it, which is.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Horrific in itself.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
With that downer, yeah, I am watching House Hunters International
to try to find properties in Ireland. A, if you
want to do a green card marriage with me, I'm
sure my partner would be okay.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Or with my partner. Like, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
We will be a polygamous family. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Just kidding.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I'm not going to get arrested for that.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
But yeah, so if you have done this move, though,
if you are talking about doing this move or if
you're looking at.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Doing this type of move, let us know. I would
love to hear about this. I also looked at Glasgow,
I will say. But again, that pound exchange rate is
not good.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
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I Never Told You, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And welcome to another edition of Happy Hour, where I'm
just going to talk about my new obsessions.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
That's the whole series I think I'm doing. Yeah. Without
knowing I'm doing.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
You do have several outlines proposed that have to do
with Not necessarily your particular obsession, but like.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Things that could be.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Well, anyway, all that to say is, this is this
happy hour. But before we start, please know, unless we
specify it's typically not sponsored, who knows? Things can change.
We love that. Please sponsor us. We are a good group.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Legally, we have to say if they're currently sponsoring us.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
But that doesn't mean that in the future... It won't
be a sponsor. Correct. And with that, this is also
a happy hour episode.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That means we're probably doing happy hour-ish things.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Annie, are you doing happy hour-ish things?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I am. I have some red wine, as usual.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Red wine, red wine.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, I'm sticking with my bubble water because we are
very busy and I can't be sleepy right now. Although
I'm always sleepy, Annie.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
That's rough.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
That's a rough situation to be in.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
It is, right? And if you're doing anything happy, please
do so responsibly because we care about you.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And if you need to do productive things and it
makes you sleepy, don't do it. Or if you do,
give yourself time to have a break.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah. That's the advice.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I will say I went to the doctor today because
I had blood work recently.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And it says that my possible low B12.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Slash.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
So I had to go back for more work. So
that would make a lot more sense. I have always,
since high school, I've had trouble.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
B12.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Really?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
They've always said, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Well, I'll let y'all know when those come in. I'll
let y'all know because it's so important. No, honestly, today
is all, again, about my new obsession. I have recently, like,
I swore I would never be this person because I have...
So annoyed when I see renovation shows, house shows, because
I know they're all fake. Like, I've had people who
(02:38):
have actually been on them, and they're like, we actually
already had picked out the house. They showed us two
random houses, and we just had to be, like, a
little conflicted, and that's how they did. And I'm talking about, like,
house hunters. Shows like that, HGTV.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Sorry, y'all.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Because my family, so my mom... love some HGTV.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Love, love, love.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
My partner's mom, I don't know if she loves it,
but she'll put it on. I think it's like, at
least this is calm and I don't have to watch
the news. I completely agree with that. I would much
rather watch that. For me, cooking shows has been the
thing that I've kind of run out of cooking shows
because Top Chef is my favorite. When I say cooking show,
I want to say just Top Chef. I don't know
why I said it like that. And currently, there's no
(03:25):
new season. I am still Mad at Tom Colicchio. And
I will say this very loudly. Why haven't you come
to Atlanta? Why haven't you come to Georgia?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
That's absurd.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You went to Greenville, no offense. But you went to
Greenville and Charleston again. Charleston you've already been to.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That's obnoxious. We should start a petition.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And I'm very mad at you for not doing it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I think there's some political reason that he hasn't. Because
Atlanta and Gwinnett, Savannah, Jekyll Island, we have so much.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
That they can come through. Augusta actually has a lot
that you wouldn't know. We have peanuts. We have pecans.
We have peaches. We have apples. What is wrong with you? Okay,
I'm done. This is not the rant, but I will say...
I'm here for it either way. I'm very angry about this.
Someone published this on.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Someone put this on Kristen Kiesch's videos.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I don't know what she watches. I love her, though.
Love you.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Anyway, Padma, I also love you, but you're not there anymore.
Back to my obsessions with that. So I usually typically
watch things like Top Chef, and that's kind of like nice.
But all of a sudden, on YouTube, it started feeding me,
who has been a sponsor, by the way, in the past.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
They've been one of their sponsors. But has been feeding
me shows like Say Yes to the Dress.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
And all of a sudden, I'm watching that because I'm like, well,
now I need to know, did they pick this dress?
And why are the mothers so awful or so wonderful?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
One of those two things.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Or now recently, House Hunters, which again, I was like,
I will never watch these. This is just ridiculous because
they're fake, but international version. And I have really gotten
into looking at all these houses and sitting there going, I.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Can afford that. How can I move to there? That
is an amazing house. You know, pick that house. That
house can have sheeps and highland cows. Give me that. Yes,
this is what I've been doing.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So because of this, I have also started researching homes.
I have literally gone into listings to see if any
of these homes could be bought. I found a property, y'all,
in Ireland. I don't know exactly where. I got to
go back and look because I know it's a big, fat,
poor land that has a cute house, a wonderful house
(05:47):
with a church next to it, giant property next to
a pretty big creek. Y'all, I want it. And it
was in the price range. I think they do auctions
on that, so that might not be true because I
don't know the actual cost and how that works in
Ireland and what taxes look like. But I was like,
(06:08):
give me this.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
This is what I want.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So that, of course, fed into my head. Am I
seeing more people leaving? I have at least three friends
who actually uprooted themselves. Two of them are in the Netherlands,
which was like, oh, one of them has two children
and just took them.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
And I was like, wow, she did it. Good for her.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I'm so jealous because it's such an interesting thing. Like
it would be difficult enough, me, my partner and a dog.
I could not imagine doing this with children, but apparently
there's quite a bit of people who are doing this.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And so I had to go back because we talked
about this before.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I believe it was a Monday Mini when we talked
about people were talking about leaving and what this looks like.
So there's been some new numbers and I thought we
would discuss this kind of like a Monday Mini, Annie.
So this is from a Yahoo Finance article, and they said,
as the cost of living crisis continues to burden people
across the country, Americans are reportedly fleeing the U.S. at
a rate we haven't seen in nearly a century. An
(07:09):
estimated 150,000 people fled the country in 2025, leading to
a negative net migration in the U.S., according to the
Wall Street Journal, which notes that such a thing hasn't
happened in America since the Great Depression in 1929. 150,000
people left, which again, compared to the actual population, may
(07:29):
not sound big, but to me, that's huge.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And the fact that these people have, I've been like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
And I do give credit to Yahoo Finance for using
the term fleeing. So I'm like, yep, that's exactly what
is happening. They are fleeing the country. And I wonder,
how are people doing this? So Of course, if you're
one of these people or are considering it, are in
(07:55):
the middle of it, or have done it, please let
me know. Because I need to know how realistic this is.
So the article goes on and says, the estimation shows
that many Americans prefer to live elsewhere, but the number
of these who renounced their citizenship in 2025 suggests many
who left aren't planning on coming back. So approximately 200
to 400 Americans would renounce their citizenship in any given
(08:17):
year before 2009, but the number jumped to almost 5,000.
in 2025, with more renunciations expected in 2026. So all
these numbers are based on 2025. Some of the biggest
jumps have happened in the first term of our current
administration to today. And it's kind of obvious, I think,
(08:40):
of why. And they go on to talk about where
people are going. So, as the Wall Street Journal reports,
nearly all of the 27 countries that make up the
European Union have welcomed record levels of American expats in
the recent years.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So, a lot of people are going to Europe.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And I did notice, because Ireland is on the Euro,
that I was like, it is cheaper to go there
than to go to, like, the UK on the pound system.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
The pound is....
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Damn.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Mm-hmm. That's how I want to say that, is damn. Yeah.
I don't got enough money for that.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
But Ireland, but their cost of living is higher in
the sense as well as the fact that it's really
hard to get to move into Ireland.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I was trying to use my partner's Irish roots, but
it doesn't go deep enough.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Oh, yes. I know.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I'm very unhappy about that.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
It's interesting because there was another article from the Gallup
poll that was written in November of 2025 talking about
women making up a large number.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
So they wrote this.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 said
they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity.
The current figure is four times higher than 10% who
shared this desire in 2014 when it was generally in
line with other age and gender groups. What has not
changed is where these younger women would like to go.
Canada remains the top preferred destination for younger American women
(10:19):
looking to leave, with 11% of those in the years
since 2022 mentioning Canada as their top destination ahead of
New Zealand, Italy, and Japan.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I would also like to move to New Zealand. But it's...
They also don't want us. They don't want anybody.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
It's really expensive, too.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I think it's they... They're having kind of a.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Because we've talked about this before, and I said my
country would be New Zealand. um and at the time
which was i think two years ago i don't know
a year ago at least uh they were having their
own conversation about how nobody could afford to live there
and people were leaving so so.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah that's definitely a thing i will say in this
conversation one of the things that they did a point
out is that married women want to leave just as
bad as the single women and are doing so so
this is back to that uh Gallup poll article, between
2024 and 2025, at least two in five younger women, 41%
of those who are married and 45% of those who
(11:24):
are single, said they would like to move abroad permanently
if given the chance. This is the narrowest gap by
marital status among younger women in desire to move that
Gallup has recorded since first asking the question, suggesting that
younger married women increasingly do not view marriage as a
barrier to migration. And I think maybe it's because, like myself,
my partner's like, yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Like, he's ready. He's ready. He's like, let's go.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
We're going. My conversation, because one of the places that
I've seen as more welcoming and easiest to go to,
and also more opportunities, Portugal.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Yeah. Take me to there. Take me to there.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
All these conversations are really interesting because that first article
is talking about how many have actually done so versus
Gallup talking about who wants to go.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And a lot of people are having conversations.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Better plans. Again, this is a very privileged conversation. I
understand this and being able to move. I think one
of the biggest reasons I want, I am really looking
at this and having this like, okay, I can do this.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
I can do the time chain. I can do these things.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It's partially because of our current election status. So in
the state of Georgia, like many other places, we have
a governor's runoff, a governor's election. And to me, the
candidates here are much like the presidential candidates. in which
we can have the worst of the worst versus kind
of bad.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
But the kind of bad is workable. I don't agree
with everything Keisha Lance Bottoms has done. There's a lot
of things that I think she did as a mayor
that was really corrupt and need conversations.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
There's a lot of things I think she did well
as well. I think there's a basis in this.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
So with that, I think she is someone that we
could have a conversation with and sit down with and
make changes with.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
She's no Mom Donnie. Why is New York so stupidly expensive?
Everybody wants to be there. Especially now. I'm okay.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
But having Rick Jackson, who has made his billions slash millions,
I think he's a billionaire, off of the Georgia health care,
which is in a crisis and has the worst.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
statistically, in medical care.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Like, where it's covered, who has died, where there's hospitals,
there's been so many closures, where there's so many denials.
We are in a crisis, honestly, here in this state specifically.
And Rick Jackson is a part of that problem. And
what he has said outright was that he wanted to
be like Donald Trump. And what Donald Trump has done
in the first year is make billions off of the
(14:07):
backs of the poor and the lower middle class at this,
you know, and not caring about how we're doing. Literally
seeing gas prices at $ 4 in the state of Georgia,
which I know a lot of other places higher, but
for us has almost doubled.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
In the last year.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
And so like seeing that causes us to have a
moment of like, what do we do? If we have
a Donald Trump in a state level that agrees with
the federal level Donald Trump, then where do we stand?
So I am petrified. honestly, about our system. And y'all,
we're fighting. We're trying to sit here and have those
(14:51):
moments and make sure we're campaigning. Again, politics is so gross,
but we know and we've seen the damage when you
get the wrong candidate. Greedy candidates who lie a lot.
He lies a lot, which is exactly what Donald Trump did. So,
you know, one for the course. And then talking about
(15:12):
having the reserve's being at the polls to intimidate people
is concerning. And the fact that we have some of
the highest detention rates for immigrants, and no one's talking
about it because there are those here that are more
accepting of it, which is.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Horrific in itself.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
With that downer, yeah, I am watching House Hunters International
to try to find properties in Ireland. A, if you
want to do a green card marriage with me, I'm
sure my partner would be okay.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Or with my partner. Like, you know.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
We will be a polygamous family. Let's go.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Just kidding.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I'm not going to get arrested for that.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
But yeah, so if you have done this move, though,
if you are talking about doing this move or if
you're looking at.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Doing this type of move, let us know. I would
love to hear about this. I also looked at Glasgow,
I will say. But again, that pound exchange rate is
not good.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
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