The phrase "abandon us for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing feelings of being left behind or forsaken in favor of someone or something else.
Example: "We felt betrayed when you decided to abandon us for a new job opportunity."
Alternatives: "leave us for" or "forsake us for".
"After Massachusetts and all the polls about independents' abandoning us for being fiscally irresponsible, we can't afford to be spending more than Obama".
The White House holds the key, but it has abandoned us for what appear to be incoherent or at best inscrutable reasons.
In 1985, she abandoned us for 11 years in order to go off and write the crowd-pleasing Possession; worse still, she had just killed off one of her major characters in the most gut-wrenching manner.
Conservatives and Ukip share a lot of common ground on Europe and a re-alignment with supporters of Ukip on the issue might also help win back some of the voters who abandoned us for them after the last election.
"Of course we see the irony, that the Ravens only came here five years ago, leaving their old Cleveland fans angry just the way we were in '83 when the Colts abandoned us for Indianapolis," said Tommy Bush, a 53-year-old city housing worker all decked out in Ravens Super Bowl paraphernalia.
As it reaches into all areas of the city, from the barrio to the boardroom, from prisons to institutes of higher learning, the show restores New York's rightful place as capital of glamour and grit at a time Hollywood has abandoned us for Toronto, that cheaper, cleaner but ersatz "New York".
Like they were abandoning us for some kind of different job, some new situation or some something else.
She abandoned us for days on end, beat us with belts and shuttled her lovers through the house at all hours of the day and night.
However, you also see a bit of anti-script-kiddie outrage in their posts as well as a strange sense of entitlement in their "customers" ("Please don't abandon us like that for Weeks again please. Just write something at all so we know you're working on fixing everything, eventually". writes one commenter) This odd interplay is half-open-source project and half-co-dependant drug addict.
