My grandparents on both sides of my family seriously considered leaving China (to the point of making concrete preparations), but didn’t because things didn’t seem that bad, until it was finally too late.
I expect I have much more flexibility than your family did – I have no dependents, I have no property / few belongings to tie me down, and I expect flight travel is much more readily available to me in the present-day. I also expect to notice it faster than the supermajority of people (not disanalogous to how I was prepped for Covid like a month before everyone else).
I do expect to be able to vacate a given country in a timely manner if it seems to be falling into a cultural Revolution.
My grandparents on both sides of my family seriously considered leaving China (to the point of making concrete preparations), but didn’t because things didn’t seem that bad, until it was finally too late.
That’s pretty scary.
I expect I have much more flexibility than your family did – I have no dependents, I have no property / few belongings to tie me down, and I expect flight travel is much more readily available to me in the present-day. I also expect to notice it faster than the supermajority of people (not disanalogous to how I was prepped for Covid like a month before everyone else).