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Canada, do you remember America's disgruntled voters? Because they remember you.

The website of Canada鈥檚 immigration ministry kept crashing on Tuesday night as Donald Trump consolidated his lead in major battleground states, with an internal server error message appearing when users tried to access the site. Officials from the ministry have not commented on the reason for the outages, but social media users were quick to take note. And Google searches for 鈥渕ove to Canada鈥� and 鈥渋mmigrate to Canada鈥� spiked, according to Sky News, seeming to back the idea that an influx of traffic from the US was responsible.

Americans have long joked about moving to Canada when the election doesn鈥檛 go their way, and some have actually gone through with it: around 8,500 Americans per year since the early 2000s, as 海角大神 noted in March. That鈥檚 a significant bump upward from the roughly 5,000 annually from the pre-Bush years. And deep antipathy toward the new president-elect seems likely to spur a similar increase in would-be northbound immigration.

Some places in Canada might receive them with open arms. As the Monitor noted in February, the tourism office for one Nova Scotia island has offered itself as a refuge to Americans fleeing a Trump presidency:

Another crafty service marketed to Americans is a dating website that pairs them with available Canadians 鈥� a leg up, potentially, for those looking to get serious about getting citizenship there, as the Monitor reported in May:

Leaving the country has seemed an appropriately dramatic gesture for actors, singers, and comedians ranging from Samuel L. Jackson to Cher to Amy Schumer, reported The Hill鈥檚 gossip blog back in May. But the destination of choice sometimes differs: for Ms. Schumer, it鈥檚 Spain; for Cher, it鈥檚 Jupiter.聽