I am a tradesman with a lot of technical skills with some specialized skills in short supply (at least in the US) with a little less than a decade of experience. My partner is a skilled social worker with more than a decade of experience.
We cannot afford a golden visa in any country.
We are at least 3rd generation Americans, and do not have the right to claim citizenship in any other country without going through the immigration and naturalization process there.
Neither of us is very good at picking up a new language (lord how I’ve tried)
Where could we realistically look to go?
Its because their concept of immigration is sitting in Mexico waiting for 20 years to be allowed into the US finally.
And because of American Exceptionalism, they expect to be an exception.
That and within the US, there are loopholes and gotchas you can use to get a visa faster.
I read this as “We’d have to go through a lengthy bureaucratic process since we do not have citizenship claims anywhere else, so given this fact, how should we go about moving abroad?”