Chapter 4 engages the average people behind these trends. In particular, it tells the stories of Hungarians compelled to leave after the reelection of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to a fourth consecutive term with a parliamentary supermajority, Serbs crestfallen after the reelection of President Aleksandar Vučić to a second term, and Russians fleeing the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent domestic crackdown on dissent. Some mundane, some extraordinary, their first-person narratives display the household considerations behind a mass population phenomenon. The chapter then leverages a unique study of European public opinion to reveal the way that Eastern Europeans who move West under the European Union’s free mobility rules likely hold more liberal democratic proclivities than those in their countries of origin who wish to migrate, and how those prospective migrants hold more liberal democratic proclivities than those of their countrymen who don’t wish to move at all – a sliding scale of liberal democratic views among people with the same origins.