[Study Finds] Researchers found that people who don’t feel "very strongly" about their national identity were most likely to consider life outside the U.S.KENT, England ‐ A third of natural-born Americans have thought about packing up and living elsewhere ‐ outside the United States ‐ at some point in the future, but it may not be for the reason you think, a new study finds.
Researchers from the University of Kent in the United Kingdom and Tufts University in the U.S. say that the most popular reason (87.4 percent) to live abroad is the simple desire to explore the world. Surprisingly, whether a person identifies as liberal or conservative politically had no correlation to their hopes of moving overseas.
"While one might think that ideological orientation plays a role, at least in this pre-Trump survey, we found out that it did not, at least not directly," says Dr. Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies, in a release.
Yet while politics didn’t have a direct link, the authors found that one’s own national identity was an important underlying factor in one’s aspirations of living in another country. Specifically, those who didn’t respond that they had a very strong national identity were also more likely to leave.
"We asked respondents if they had a ’very