Molly Burke has spent her entire life in the United States. But no longer — after receiving her working holiday visa to New Zealand last month, she says she plans to move by September at the latest.

Burke, who has lived in Denver for the past 10 years, said she made the decision in part because her job as a preschool teacher doesn’t pay enough to live comfortably in the city. But the political changes happening under President Donald Trump since he took office on Jan. 20 also have pushed her to leave — and prompted worries about public access to Medicaid, abortion and gender-affirming care.

“The state of our country is terrifying right now,” Burke said. “I don’t get why anyone would want to stay, honestly.”

In Denver, interest in resettling abroad is burgeoning as Coloradans wary of Trump grapple with the realities of his second term and his quickly implemented new policies — along with their own anxieties. American citizens who spoke with The Denver Post explained their reasoning as including distress about women’s rights, transgender health care, economic uncertainties and attempts to slash federal funding under the Trump administration.

And some indicators show that across the U.S., which permits dual and multiple citizenships, more people are seriously considering following Burke’s lead.

After Trump secured his election win in November, the Immigration Advice Service, a United Kingdom-based immigration law office, reported that one in four Americans were researching potential relocations overseas, with countries such as Canada, the U.K., Australia and Ireland ranking high as potential options.

By the year’s end, the number of Americans applying for Irish citizenship through its Foreign Births Register skyrocketed, Irish broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann reported in February. Meanwhile, some others — particularly LGBTQ+ people — are looking to relocate just north of the U.S. border; North American charity Rainbow Road‘s spokesperson Timothy Chan said that, as of March 4, it had fielded more than 1,830 requests for help from Americans so far this year — a 1,121% jump compared with the same time last year.

But it remains unclear how many of those people will follow through and leave American soil. For decades, the outcomes of U.S. elections have prodded some dissatisfied citizens to vow they’ll expatriate.

In addition to Americans born here, new U.S. citizens in Denver are deciding whether to return to their native lands, too.

Although Susanne Lederer, 45, only just received her American citizenship, she already is looking at jobs in Europe: Switzerland, Austria, the U.K. and her home country of Germany.

“I work in health care, and I already see impacts of what the current policies are doing” under the Trump administration, Lederer said.