Americans are leaving the U.S. in record numbers and spending hundreds to learn how to do it

Last weekend Jesse Derr and his wife, Jess Yeastadt, made the five-hour drive from their home in Phoenix to the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego. On the agenda for their weekend trip: learn how to move to Mexico. Derr, 41, and Yeastadt, 45, were among the hundreds of Americans in San Diego last weekend who dream of starting a new life abroad. …