Operai employee left America for Sweden due to Trump’s presidency

Until June of this year, Habryn lived what many would call the American dream. He had a job in the Chatgpt OpenAi manufacturer, surrounded by some of the brightest minds of artificial intelligence. His salary was comfortably in the six figures, and owned a house in San Francisco, the first city in which he had lived as at home.

His six -year -old daughter, Steffi, was enjoying school and his wife, Eden, was thriving in his career as an artist.

But the family could not shake his concern about the direction in which American politics was moving. While Habryn was born in Poland and raised in Australia since the age of five, his partner and his son had only known life in the United States.

When President Trump returned to the Oval office, the family made the decision to leave San Francisco and the dreamed work of Habryn and move to Stockholm, Sweden. There they hope to remain indefinitely.

Habryn said he made the decision to leave the United States, where he had lived since 2007, a March night. She said: “My wife was traveling along the east coast and I was at home with Steffi. And something about that particular night was awake worried about the things that were not uncommon, and I only arrived at the point of: it’s time to go, I can’t stay here and do nothing, but doing something comes with such terrible risks for me due to my state.”

“If I caught my attention, or the federal authorities arrested me, the result of that could be tragic. It turns out that my wife, the same day, came to the same conclusion.”

Habryn explains the “status” to which he refers: “During the campaign it was immigrants and transgender people who occupied the airways and, since I am both, they have made me come and come effectively.”

The family is not alone in their decision to leave Trump’s America. While it is difficult to specify the number of people who leave the United States every year (the State Department said previously Fortune He does not keep such records) in 2024 requests for Americans to live alone in the United Kingdom they shot 26% compared to a previous year. More than 6,100 Americans requested British citizenship last year, a record number.

Immigration experts also said previously Fortune Their phones had been summarized, particularly since that infamous debate from Trump and Biden, when many people felt that the fate of the November elections had been decided. Immigration experts based in Montreal Moving2anada, for example, saw inquiries in 2016 and 2020 and in 2024 they saw triple volume consultations after the Trump vs. debate. Biden.

Life in OpenAi

Habryn is no stranger to working in the United States technological elite: he moved to the United States originally to work for Google in Mountain View, where he stayed over the next 12 years. His experience in Operai, where he worked from May 2024 to July 2025, is a family history for many in great technology: an intense atmosphere, “wonderful” people and fascinating works.

“It’s a challenge,” said Habryn. “I think it’s exciting, but I was lucky to have a lot of security and confidence in my own skills, I think without that it would have been very, very difficult.”

The perspective of losing the role of their dreams in the research department of one of the most commented companies in the world was a key issue that kept Habyn to make the movement before. While his team supported the decision, ultimately, the legalities of Habryn’s work meant that he could not move with her.

“It was really difficult,” he said. “That was probably the reason he took me while making him make the decision, because I honestly had this period of pain away from this. I’ve been working in technology for a long time … and really the only thing I want to work on is AI.

“It was difficult and I did not love to make that decision, but, ultimately, it was just a matter of priority.”

Habryn is confident that he will find an interesting job when he needs it, and the family is being installed in his house recently bought in Stockholm: the family doubts that they once return to the United States that comes with “guilt,” Habryn says: “I buy the narration that you should fight for the things you think and that there is courage to and fight for that. If it were not for Steffi, I think we have done it.”

Ultimately, her six -year -old daughter is her approach: “We put aside many things that we love to do (because) we want Steffi to have a routine, a stable house, a stable school and all those things. The most difficult thing in this movement has worried about the next impact on it and, therefore, the priority was that we do not want to do this again, we are going to move once, and we want to leave the roots. years it was that we do not want to do this again, we are going to move once, and we want to pass the roots and spend the next 15/20 years there. ”