New research highlights where residents of blue-voting states in the U.S. are most likely to relocate, based on Google search trends.
In the days following the election, online searches by Americans looking to leave the country spiked after President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris.
According to visa website La Vida, there was an unprecedented 2,300 percent jump in U.S. traffic on their website on the day of the election. That is five times more than the spike in traffic after the 2020 election, when there was a 4.5-fold spike in site visitors.
Country-specific searches also soared. By 8 p.m. ET on election night, searches for “how to move to Canada” had a 400 percent day-to-day increase, while “how to legally move to Canada” was up by 200 percent, according to Google Trends data.
A new study from QR Code Generator using Google Keyword Planner has ranked countries by average monthly search volumes for terms …