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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ashifa Kassam, European Community affairs correspondent

‘I would not feel safe’: Americans on the sorrow – and relief – of leaving Trump’s US for Europe

headshots of Benjamin Gorman, Monica Byrne and Deborah Harkness.
Benjamin Gorman, Monica Byrne and Deborah Harkness. Composite: supplied

The scramble began in November as news broke that Donald Trump had been re-elected. Benjamin and Chrys Gorman had long said they would leave the US before seeing Trump inaugurated again, giving them exactly 76 days to sell their home, cars and most of their belongings and move four people, three dogs and two cats to Barcelona.

“I was saying: we’ve got more time than that, it won’t go that fast,” said Gorman. “My wife said no, we need to be out of here – not just on inauguration day, but a few days before. And she was so right.”

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