• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    Well, like I said, it’s not for everyone.

    Even in the best of times, the United States is a country that requires a background level of stress and paranoia to live in. You realize that when you move to another developed country where you don’t have to lock your door or wonder whether the next person you meed is armed, mentally unstable or up to no good.

    Even before this whole fascist shitshow got started in 2001, I considered the US a lost cause that’s not really worth fighting for. Dubya and the USA Patriot Act was the thing that finally pushed me to leave.

    I only have a finite number of hours on this dirtball and I fully intend to spend them as best I can with my family and my children, and offer them a good life. I don’t have time to fight for lost causes.

    It’s a choice ultimately. Emigration isn’t for everybody. If you want to stay and try to make America better, more power to you. I just want people to know that life is sweeter elsewhere.