Very troubling phone call from daughter

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14. I have a nephew who has moved to the UK

along with his wife and 3 year old daughter. He was a chemistry professor at a well known public university and was recruited to Manchester University. His wife, a biochem researcher, found a job easily.
It's full circle. My father's family left England in the 19th Century for Canada and eventually ended up in the US. Now a male descendant is returning to England with his family.
My late husband and I started looking at leaving the US in 1994 when we went to New Zealand. That didn't work out. In 2005 , during Bush years, we bought property in Panama, but sold it when Obama was elected. In 2015, we looked at Bonaire when Trump was first becoming a concern. My husband refused to pursue that. When Trump was actually elected, I suggested that if we weren't going to get out of the country, perhaps we could at least leave the mainland, go to Hawaii. He wouldn't do that, either. After he died in 2018, I thought about checking out France or Portugal for myself, but kept putting off a long look see trip because I didn't want to leave my elderly dog for 6 months. Then COVID in 2020. That ended my move abroad idea, and I bought a house where I could hunker down and isolate in the bluest county in NC, among the blue three county area known as the Research Triangle of Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill. Both my sons live nearby.
So here I am--at almost 75--and I just don't have the energy to tackle a move abroad alone. I will hunker down here and hope that not only will there be mid terms this year, but Dems will gain control of both the House and Senate so that the balance of power will be restored to government in order to constrain the felonious fascist wanna be tyrant occupying the Oval Office.

I did renew my passport, though: good until 2035.