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Rose McClintock has visited the redwoods of California, celebrated the Cubs' World Series win on the streets of Chicago, skied in Colorado and watched a Michigan gridiron game. But now the Australian, who has loved two years of living in the United States, wants out. And she is not alone. For Ms McClintock, a 25-year-old consultant from Sydney who now lives in Chicago, the shock victory of outsider presidential candidate Donald Trump represents a "punch in the gut" for women and an endorsement of bigotry. "Last night and today, it just feels devastating here," she told Fairfax Media from New York, where she is on a work trip. "It doesn't feel like a place I want to be in a lot of ways." "When I was especially emotional last night and this morning, I really was thinking, 'I need to go home, I need to not be here, I can't be part of what's happening here.'" Like many, she had predicted a Hillary Clinton victory, which she saw as a rejection of the "business-as-usual, old boys' club mentality" led by Trump. "The result really just feels like an endorsement of that," she said. "And I don't know how you tell young women that your president says it's OK to sexually assault women." In America, immediately following the election result, Google searches on migrating soared. Australia was one target, while New Zealand's immigration website had 56,300 hits from the US in 24 hours, up from a daily average of 2300. Citizenship and Immigration Canada's website crashed. The Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection said there had been an increase in American traffic since Wednesday. Ms McClintock is not coming home immediately, but feels the decision has accelerated a return to Australia or potentially a move to Britain. Sarah Profitt, a 30-year-old American citizen, had already considered moving abroad, but says the Trump ascendancy has strengthened her desire to get a working holiday visa in Australia. She finds herself on one side of America's deep political divide between young, educated, multicultural city dwellers, and white, less-educated, rural and rust-belt families. "Right now, there's a feeling that I'm surrounded by people that are OK with racism and sexism and sexual abuse, and are accepting of these kinds of things in a leader of our country," the New York public school teacher said. "It's a feeling of betrayal by your own people. Or a deep disconnect." Many of her students are the children of illegal immigrants who are fearful of what a Trump administration will mean following his incendiary language about Latinos and promise to deport 11 million immigrants and build a wall on the US-Mexico border. Back at school after election day, a seven-year-old Hispanic boy told a heartbroken Ms Profitt of his mother's warning: "From now on, if you hear a knock on the door, don't answer it." According to Ms Profitt, the streets of Brooklyn are the most sombre she has ever seen them. "In a way, leaving was a choice before; now it feels like a compulsion to abandon my country and home because I feel I can't live here," she said. There are several visa options for US citizens wanting to live in Australia. On top of a working holiday visa, there is the skilled migration program, a new entrepeneur visa and the regional sponsored migration scheme. Follow Fergus Hunter on Facebook Follow us on Twitter If this ends badly, is either Australia or New Zealand going to let me stay? #peaceoutAmerica #imwithher— Eliza Orlins (@eorlins) November 9, 2016 With this crazy election at home I just want to move to the opposite side of the world and live on an island... Oh wait nvm ✔ #RIPUSA— Mason Cox (@masonsixtencox) November 8, 2016

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