“We are in the Hamptons of England”: Trump sends wealthy Americans who flee to the Cotswolds | Real estate

THanksgiving in the Cotswolds is not a little matter. Every November, the Americans flock to the English market city of Stow-on-Wold to collect glazed turkey brows, green bean casserole and a traditional sweet potato dish covered with marshmallows.

It is “bizarre” by Jesse d'Ambrosis. The chef, owner of D'Ambrosi Fine Foods, is one of the many Americans who have made the Cotswolds their home in recent years. Here you are very popular with your Thanksgiving Festival and your food port on July fourth.

Now that Donald Trump settles in his second administration, the temptation of the Rolling Oxfordshire Hills has become stronger for many of her compatriots.

“I saw many Americans who shot and checked the area,” she said. “Obviously it is political. Why didn't you want this type in action? It is very scary times, especially for women.”

It is an increasingly common view because Trump's authoritarian clamps and attacks on academy, civil society and political opponents send shock waves through the United States and some Americans will grab their passes.

US applications for citizenship in Great Britain achieved a record high of more than 6.100 a.m. last year, an increase of 26% compared to 2023. In the last three months of the year, the re-election of Trump was an increase of 40% compared to the previous year.

On the Prime London Real Estate Market, which covers areas such as Knightsbridge and Mayfair, the number of American buyers overtook Chinese buyers for the first time last year, and the analysis of the Property Agent Knight Frank showed.

However, the view of an idyllic life in the English landscape is also becoming increasingly popular. According to Harry Gladwin, the Americans from the purchasing solution agency in the Cotswolds from Cotswolds from Cotswolds are hoping to plan a route abroad.

“Since Trump's re -election, it has achieved a great increase in Americans who viewed the UK as a place where they anchor themselves,” he said.

“There are several draws: it is a safe place where you can keep real estate; young families often want to have a holiday home to spend more time here in the long run, and older couples who want to spend more time in Great Britain use it as a springboard in Europe.

“Many of them are younger people who have made money in technology and want to have property elsewhere. There are financial residents from the east coast and people in the media, especially in the film.”

There is no shortage of Hollywood glamor in the Cotswolds, with its chocolate box villages and honey houses offering a bucolian environment. Some scenes in the holiday, in the 2000s with Cameron Diaz and Jew Law, were shot near Chipping Norton. The city of Oxfordshire from Bampton was the situation for village scenes in the HIT period -drama Downton Abbey. Last year, the former chat show star Ellen Degeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi moved to the Cotswolds, reportedly because of Trump's return to the White House.

Luxury brands and lifestyle companies follow the money. The gallery in Aynhoe Park, a outpost of the luxurious American furniture brand RH, opened the landmark of class I as an extravagant exhibition space two years ago. The private members of the Club Soho Farmhouse and Dayylesford Organic, which was expanded from a farm and furniture store to a five-star experiences in campus style with pool, spa and padel places, are also aimed at the inflow. Estelle Manor, a country club in a class II hall in Eynsham, calculates a standard membership of 3,600 GBP per year and a fee of 1,000 GBP.

D'Ambrosi, who lived in Great Britain in France and Amsterdam before reading in, opened a fine grocery a few months before the Pandemie hit in 2020. She has a loyal supporter for her colorful, healthy cuisine and the American stacks, including the American stacks, including American stacks, including grape jelly, pancak mixture and pancak mixture and mixture and mixture that describe.

“We have an enormous number of American customers based between the Cotswolds and London,” she said. “We are in the Hamptons of England. We have gastropubs on every corner, high-end purchases in Daylesford and there is the access factor to get to London within an hour and 20 minutes.”

Daniel Holder at R Scott & Co, a men's fashion shop in Cirencester, said most Americans who examined the area wanted to stay in the UK for as long as possible because they do not want to return to the states.

“They spend a lot of money,” he said. “It is mainly tweed sports jackets, flat caps and knitting.

Nathan Hanafin-Smith from the Cirencester Antiques Center says that American buyers often arrive in the region with particular interest in Roman coins. “In some cases, these coins are 2,000 years old or longer,” he said. “It shocked because many of our coins are older than there that they come from. It puts things in the right perspective for them.”

Wealth managers report further questions from Americans who want to put their assets out of the country. Sean Cockburn from the Tax Specialist group Forvis Mazars said that there had been a remarkable increase in interest in the move to Great Britain in the past three years.

“While some are concerned about the potential tax pollution due to the abolition of the non-dom regime, others will welcome the new exceptions that were introduced for those who live in Great Britain for a shorter time,” he said.

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“In particular, the ability to make foreign income and profits from British taxation in the first four years of the British residence will make Britain very attractive for short -term visitors,” he said. In most cases, however, the Americans are still expected to pay taxes in the USA.

“The IRS will continue to apply the federal income tax to its worldwide income, even if they are no longer based in the USA,” said Cockburn. “While a US person could initially be enthusiastic about the prospect of avoiding tax taxes on their foreign income and profits in Great Britain, the benefits should be significantly undermined by a larger US tax liability.”

But political fears are effective enough to pass on the wealthy Democrats, says Armand Arton of Arton Capital, an international specialist for citizens who advises a person with high net assets.

Many American families are now thinking about a plan B, he says. “The Democrats flee. The higher the profile, the higher the anti-trump rhetoric that they express, the more serious it is to take these steps.”

Trump's attacks on the academy also seem to recharge the Exodus. The US clicks on British job offers rose by 2.4 percentage points to 8.5%compared to the previous year, which, according to the job search, indeed the sharpest increase towards a country. This ascent was largely powered by Americans who were looking for roles in scientific research and development.

Trump has taken funds for medical research at universities, hospitals and other scientific institutions, especially aimed at Harvard. In February, the National Institutes of Health stated that the amount of “indirect” medical research financing by $ 4 billion per year. The universities all over the country have introduced their admission of doctoral students, medical students and other doctoral students, and in some cases the admission offers canceled.

According to Sir John Bell, the renowned immunologist and president of the Ellison Institute of Technology from Oxford, this has created a “massive opportunity” in Great Britain to actively recruit American scientists.

In an interview with the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee last month, he said that the leaders of the biomedical research area in the United States had already asked when they could move.

“Make the thought experiment: you are an outstanding scientist, you sit in an American institution and things don't look good,” he said. “You know for sure that you will be bad for four years, you will probably be bad for eight years and it will take another four years for the thing to get back on your feet.

“If you are a great scientist in the late 40s or early 50s, you can never suspend it.”

According to the UCAs, the national universities approval service, around 6,680 American students applied for the traditional deadline for the traditional period at the end of January this year. This marked an increase of 12% compared to the previous year and the highest number since the start of the records in 2006.

But Americans who make the leap may have to accept lower payment in Great Britain, especially in technology. The average content for software engineer in the USA is indeed $ 123,530 (93,030 GBP), compared to 48,796 GBP in Great Britain.

American companies wake up with the threat of Trump's second term. Doug Winter, the managing director of the Tech company Ai Seismic in San Diego, California, is actively preparing to convince his workers not to leave the states for Great Britain.

“Great Britain and other international markets dangle a carrot to bite US technology workers,” he said. “This is largely due to the ongoing uncertainty in the United States and the broader economic instability.

“Historically, the US Tech ecosystem was resistant, and many US workers trusted that their employers would see them in uncertain times. But this trust is tested.”