There are places in the EU with sunny weather though...certainly more so than Canada! Spain, Italy, Greece, and the Balkans are all as far south as California is. You guys have it pretty good in the EU when it comes to options for living in sunny places. Maybe not as good as the US, but certainly a lot better than I do here in Canada. Any time I want to go live somewhere sunny I have to go through somebody else's immigration system!

(Can we please adopt Turks and Caicos already?)

I think they are saying that Canada is too cold.

Could be, but I was just trying to say that if he's after sunny he's got easier options than we Canadians do ;)

Canada may be colder than Germany, but I believe it's more sunny.

He's an EU citizen, he can move to other places.

Yeah, Croatian coastal area is sun all throughout the year (strong winds, very popular among gliders and surfers).

Quit reading internet comments and watching fear mongering news. Come visit and make your own assumptions.

There are so many places in the US and you can find a lifestyle that suits you. Most people are very welcoming and would love to have you.

Germans are well thought of in the States. My state, Georgia, even has a Bavarian inspired town in the “mountains”.

The US, in principle, has so many fantastic places and welcoming people and nice traits that I can‘t name them all here. The problem is, FUD about the USA has never stopped me from feeling this was my secret mother country. Hell, my wife and I even own more ground in Texas than most of my family owns here in Germany combined(praise goes to the easy aquisition process in the US...). Fact is, currently they don‘t let my Iranian wife in. And even if they let (which they might when we are on an investors visa), Iranian relatives would not be able to visit us. And the super unreliable politics concerning Iran make things worse and we do not know what we get, even if Iran keeps its promises. So the poltics affect us in a big way, and then again we also don‘t know in what other much more difficult conflicts the US might engage (at least only two state leaders come to my mind that threaten each other with atomic bombs, North Korea and the USA). So currently, we sit and wait, discover advantages of the country I was born in, and will re-evaluate the situation when it changes.

Ditto from Arkansas. We have cities with people of all persuasions, and we have rural areas where you can form your own social circles.

Don't believe the media, it's been proven to be working an agenda. See for yourself!

You should come. Texas has very wonderful German areas where you could feel at home during transition or you wanted.

I'd love to come but so far the green card lottery hasn't yielded immigration rights. any other options for entrepreneurs?

I wouldn't worry about Trump. America didn't change overnight you know. Trump's success reflects long standing issues in American politics and the country working through them, but Germany is experiencing its own version of similar problems and its own politics is if anything even more dysfunctional - Merkel's attempts to cobble together a government out of the far left and libertarians, in a desperate attempt to avoid engaging with AfD voters, is in many ways even more ridiculous a sight than President Twitter.