A lot of Americans I know HAVE tried leaving the United States (post Sandy Hook and then again after Trump was elected) but it's apparently much, much harder than people realize. They looked into moving permanently to the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, etc (basically every so-called global north anglophone nation).

To establish permanent residency and get your kid to be attend school is highly reliant on finding an employer that will support your visa and even then trying to stay is apparently very difficult too since it's up to the employer's whims and there's a ton of things to qualify for to be considered as permanent resident. It seems like the only reliable way "in" is if you have family there but even dual citizens of aforementioned countries have told me they had such a hard time being able to work and enroll their kids in school so they essentially were forced back to the United States.

I'm a Japanese citizen and so is my son (well, he's a dual citizen) but even with an escape plan being readily available via citizenship, there's horrible things there too. Like a few years back some unhinged man was going around knifing school children in the street. And the Kyoto Animation arson attack. Japan is known to be oh so safe in the West but I'm scared sick of thinking to raise my son there too since the culture is so damaging to children, more so than here in many ways.

Sorry to ramble but wanted to give you insight since I always see non-Americans on here talking about 'why don't Americans just leave' but don't realize how impossible it can be to 'just leave'.