Can Americans escape to, go into exile in Canada?

Michael, I have been mulling how to describe, define “internal exile.” Here it is.

Exile means to leave behind.

External exile means to geographically leave something behind, but too often the exiles carry their emotional “baggage” and issues with them from their place of geographic exile. As a result, the causes, discomforts for exile continue.

Internal exile means to mentally, emotionally leave something behind without having to change geography. Internal exile means we do not change geographic location to drop what “eats away” at us.
Of course geographic exile in time can help with internal exile, but it does not automatically cause us to drop the emotional “baggage” that triggered the geographic exile in the first place.

In fact, 16th-century French essayist Michael Montaigne observed that without internal exile first external exile was a waste of effort. We cannot run away from emotional baggage. We must set it down good and hard when and where we are.
More and more your humble servant here is moving toward a posture of internal exile, for it is a cost-effective, realistic way to gain peace of mind in the middle of the chaotic muddle swirling around us today. He retreated to a stone tower in the countryside of France, where he lived, a form of geographic exile but on a modest scale, not immigrating to Quebec, North America.

Moreover, internal exile, parallels the four stages of life in Hindu teaching. Each stage represents twenty-five years in a human life span, 0-100:
Stage one is student.
Stage two is household.
Stage three is withdrawal – setting “thing down” to become selfish with our remaining time, energy.
Stage four is preparation – becoming spiritually centered to face our physical demise and spiritual transition to the world beyond this one.

Your humble servant here is now preparing for stage three of his life, which results in getting ready for “internal” exile. Others will do what they want, and we ought not to wear ourselves with a futile idealism about being able to change the rest.

There, old friend, you have my promised definition of internal exile.