Currently working on actual plans to move to another country. I hope you don’t mind if I don’t say where.
Born/raised in the US but I also have Swedish citizenship and I’ve lived there as an adult. My American girlfriend is spending a lot of time learning Swedish and we expect that we’ll move there sometime in the next few years.
I will not run from my country. I will remain here and be a problem to the opposition by existing aka an enemy to the regime of an administration.
And just because I continue to live here, does not mean I accept everything they do.
It’s either that or become an unwanted immigrant with no support. I feel this 100%.
I’ve read a lot of novels set in Germany/Europe in the Hitler Era.
I always used to be amazed at the people who would see what was going on, and who stayed.
One of my favorite series is the Bernie Gunther [Berlin Noir] novels by the late Phillip Kerr.
Bernie stays in Germany because he’s a German. He was born and raised in Berlin and it’s his home. No strong family ties, he just stays because he can’t imagine living anywhere else.
Are you going to help me immigrate out of here? Will anyone on Lemmy?
For all the political posturing and holier than thou attitude I see on Lemmy not a single one of you would do anything to help me.
My thoughts are why should I move? America the country is beautiful and bountiful. I’m not the one wrecking it. I’d rather work on cleaning up the mess than just tossing everything I’ve ever had.
People from other countries can mock, but a lot of what I see going on in the EU doesn’t seem far behind or is in some ways worse. Chat control, anti-immigrant policies, and a rise in fascism over there as well.
At this point, I feel I’m still better off with the enemies I know.
I think you’re having a better go than me. The reason I’m having such a rough time is that I don’t have the things that make life bearable. If I “tossed everything I ever had” it wouldn’t be much to toss.
Trump and Musk took my job in May. I had to pick up a gig working nights for a third of what I was making without benefits.
Once again thanks for the owl pictures.
This year has been tough mentally, but I’ve at least managed to maintain overall stability, and thankfully my wife has done very well this year considering we lost both her parents in the last two years.
I don’t know where you’re or what work you do, but I’m at a huge pharmaceutical company, so they hire damn near every kind of job since we’re basically self contained. I’m a nobody so my name won’t open doors, but I can always watch postings if you are able to get up to KOP or Collegeville. Like I said before, PM me if you ever need to.
We can only make things better if we’re looking out for each other.
I would even accept financial assistance for the extreme costs of the move. I’m generous like that.
I did it before.
Like you sponsored someone? You hiring?
I’d help you, to what degree I can, which is not too much.
If you’re stuck, I’m just sorry about that, no attitude at all.
Can you supply a job offer? I have a background in UI/UX Design, Frontend Web Development, and I have project management certifications. I can move myself and I don’t have dependents that would move with me. I can pay to relocate myself. I just need a source of income and a chance at a better life.
I’m afraid not. Although, that’s the least of your problems if you’re coming to Canada. You need to qualify competitively and immigration levels are tight right now, while our housing market catches up. If you can do that, getting a job as an educated American should be easy.
What I can do at my current moment in life basically amounts to personal favours, that’s it. I’m not even in a convenient location for crashing.
I appreciate the sentiment regardless.
I wish I was born Canadian instead of Texan.
Short answer is nope.
If you mean for political reasons, no, because unless Trump succeeded in creating dynasty that many people are talking about then there is hope that someone will step in and force the government back in the right direction. So this will be a temporary setback.
Now when I mean set it back in the right direction I don’t mean back to the far left either, I mean I hope for a reasonable rational leader willing to work to a better future for all Americans. Both sides have lost what it means to work for all Americans as the president of the USA and not just their party extremists.
As an average low middle class American, life isn’t terrible but economic insecurity and living costs are becoming a major issue that is directly connected to Trump. Cost is up 30% in the last year, privacy is under attack again, consumer protections are being stripped away, environmental protections are being removed, general infrastructure investments are being defunded, public relief and assistance being removed, AI is out of control, and there are fewer jobs being created. While Trump lies and tries to cover it up, he is actually firing people in the government or refusing to release negative data to the public in an effort to cover it up. He is actively silencing people which goes against a core American belief that this country was founded on.
Now when I mean set it back in the right direction I don’t mean back to the far left either
that has literally never been the case for the usa
I wouldn’t worry about the far-left - there doesn’t seem to be a single far-left politician with a platform in the US. I’d be more worried about the mayority of people currently in the legislature being either far-right or enabling said far-right people. Those people will still be there after Trump.
It’s actually why I don’t see any forcing back to normalcy happening. If there were extremists on both sides it’d be a kind of level playing field, and someone in the center could rally support for reforms to stop the chaos. As it is, democracy is just being hollowed out bit by bit, and there’s no incentive to stop.
“back to the far left”
Can you point on the timeline when the far left was ever in charge that we COULD go back to?
As in a swing too far in the opposite direction, if you keep reading I meant for a swing to a more moderate state of being
The thing is that it would take an extremist left wing government to bring it back to some level of normality. FDR was a Democratic Socialist (officially), and the New Deal was one of the best improvements for the country we’ve ever had (minus all the blatant racism and destruction of minority communities that the highway projects caused). It was American socialists and anarchists who fought a bloody struggle that won the world the 40 hour work week and weekends. And even that was merely considered a stepping stone on the path to a 20 hour work week. The Overton Window has been pushed so far to the right that we’ve forgotten what it truly looks like to have 2 sides in the government.
I uprooted my life and left. It’s far too dangerous for me. I’m a trans latina. I grieve over the friends and community I left behind daily
I’d like too but I don’t think it’s a possibility. I don’t have the money or the skills.
Agreed love to get fuck out of this capitalist, dictatorship, but where can we go? Love to live in Iceland.
It’s spreading everywhere. I noticed a year ago my buddy in India was talking about it on a Spotify interview. Apparently, non-caucasian cultures are having the same problems with division and authoritarianism. Also, dissenters are being treated very poorly there now.
International nationalism. It’s just a divide and conquer strategy being pushed everywhere. Some places like Spain, Ireland, and South Afrika seem to have an international push against it but a lot of the rest of the world have only local resistance to it at the moment. At least from a an english readers perspective. I hope in other languages there is more opposition.
My problem is that I love the state/region I live in, but large swathes of the rest of the country are a risk to my life and my age, skills, and minority status don’t make me appealing from an immigration standpoint, let alone that many places have just as much of an issue with people like me as the Republicans do.
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I mean you get to pick which flavor of authoritarianism to live in
Shot by cop, unhinged lunatics doing mass shooting?
Or public beheading?
:P
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Both are ruined by religious fanaticism.
Never have been fine with it and would move in a heartbeat if given the chance. Only thing keeping me here is lack of funds and a useful skillset. My family is just my parents who most likely only got maybe a decade or so left in them. My friends are all on Discord with none living near me (hell one is in a different country already). My job pays well, but isn’t exactly skilled labor or anything I give a shit about.
I guarantee you are getting a warped picture of what it’s actually like to live here. I haven’t noticed a change in my daily life based on who is president for my entire life.
Cue all the boring-ass comments like “you must be priviliged,” “you’re clearly not black,” “how nice for you that you aren’t a government employee.”
You haven’t noticed how expensive groceries have gotten this year? Does sound a little bit privileged, imo
idk what’s going on in the big cities but out here in bumfuckville prices have barely moved. I guess I’m privileged for living in a rural shithole
this comment explains so much about your perspective.
You’re assuming I didn’t move here recently, but nice try. Something tells me you do that a lot.
getting “my girlfriend is a model from two towns over” vibes.
What’s the price of ground beef in your magical bumfuckville? I looked up prices at my bumfuckville back home and it’s sitting around 6$ a lb
I haven’t noticed a change in my daily life based on who is president for my entire life.
I mean, that’s true everywhere, even long-authoritarian places. It takes time for the crap happening at the top to roll down.
Obviously, it eventually does.
I’d love to move and could probably swing it but I have a lot of pets that cannot cross the country. I have made a lifetime commitment to them so until they pass I will not leave. When I do will be to Japan or Uruguay. I have no problem learning languages quickly. I just can’t leave these animals behind.
you’re one of the good ones
What’s your plan to get into Japan? It’s not a place that likes immigration.
they do like white westerners though, especially the ones that have money, or they are married toa japanese spouse. im guessing if you’re an asian, you can blend in more easier.
To visit. Immigrating is a whole other thing - this BBC retrospective paints a pretty clear picture in the section about the village. I remember reading an account of somebody that’s been going to the same corner store run by the same guy for decades, but who still gets followed around because “foreigners commit crime”.
Looking Asian might make it worse if anything, because Japan has less than awesome relations with other Asian countries, and some of them come with a poverty stigma.
There are multiple reasons why most people don’t shift countries willy-nilly.
Moving, even within the same state is a difficult, stressful, and expensive prospect. Moving to a different country is even more so, and that assumes you have a job lined up when you get there or substantial monetary reserves. Then there are the legal hurdles, which depending on the destination country can be downright daunting. In many countries unless you are a top earner with an in-demand skill-set you are likely to experience significant legal challenges to even achieve temporary residency. And then there are language and cultural differences that can make life difficult once you get there. Unless you have friends/family already in the destination country and/or know the language you can expect it to be rough going for quite a while.
All this would be compounded if you have a family. Not to mention the added difficulty and expense involved with visiting or supporting extended family members or friends back in your original home country after leaving.
Simply put, most people simply can’t move countries whenever the political situation in their home country gets dicey. It’s only after the fighting starts do you see people doing that in significant numbers and at that point they are refugees.
Can’t move. Too old to qualify for visas anywhere else and my occupation isn’t a valued need.
even if, you have to learn the culture, maybe the language, and a job, and a place to live, and coverting your currency and transferring to an internaitonal instuition too.
