Law professor and economist Neil H. Buchanan recounts his three-year experience emigrating through the Netherlands, Canada, and Ireland before returning to the United States. Professor Buchanan suggests that while the impulse to leave the US is understandable, expatriation is far more logistically grueling, expensive, and isolating than most people anticipate—and explains that these practical realities, rather than any resolution of the political concerns that drove him abroad, were central to his decision to return.