The people moving to countries that fit their politics

There have been times when Nick Heilmann has looked around his hometown and wondered if there’s a single person there who thinks the way he does.

In August, when the US presidential election came down to two candidates, neither of whom he liked, Heilmann and his family decided to move from the US state of Indiana to Victoria, Canada. When he told friends and family about his plan to move, many wondered if he was abandoning his country.

“I’m very much against nationalism,” he says of his thinking on moving from one country to another. “You were lucky enough to be born on one side of an imaginary line that some politician drew on a map. How does that make you more special?” Read more…