I’m getting the fuck out as soon as I am able
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.
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.
I would like to move to Canada - I even have an in, as my grandfather was from there. Circumstance, however, prevents it as a practical goal.
If I had the money to I’d leave in a heart beat.
Already left and in Europe but in a bit of a grey area with residency between two countries here. Doing my best to get sorted more permanently and to stop sending my tax money to the US and instead send it to one of the two governments (whoever is willing to let us continue as a family to live).
It was stressful and expensive over the last year+ but wife and I are both in high risk categories for detention, persecution, and possible separation from our new baby in the US, so not much choice. We are liquidating assets there which is not good for our financial future but hopefully we aren’t too old to rebuild stability in Europe somewhere, or failing that, the Philippines where we have much better residency privileges.
I tried to get out in 2013, failed, tried again, and succeeded in 2015. I now have permanent residence in Japan. If I had it to do over again, I probably would have gone somewhere in Finnoscandia instead (and indeed I’m working on Norwegian now as a backup plan). When my parents pass, I will probably renounce my US citizenship entirely; I have zero plans to ever live there again and, at least for now, zero plans to visit unless someone is dying.
I learnt Japanese in my 30s. It blows my mind seeing threads where people just give up if there’s not English or they must learn another language.
Currently working on actual plans to move to another country. I hope you don’t mind if I don’t say where.
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.
if you arnt a scientist or MD, research in a niche field, it will be very inadvisable.
I would love to move out to an EU country like Ireland, Germany or the Netherlands.
The big issue is getting accepted into other countries. What options for visas that go beyond a year have specific requirements that must be met, and many of those requirements are entirely circumstantial and dependent on people in those countries you’ve never met.
EU bluecard. Or chance card
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 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
Thing is I uprooted my family to move to the US 15 years ago and loved it here, and still do. I hate the current everything of course, Ikbut 'm still a bit idealistic and still believe the country will right itself. How long it will take, I don’t know, but I still believe it.
(… ok back to the job search, yay layoffs)
OMG ARE YOU ME?
I also moved here approx 15 years ago.
But yea this is basically how I feel.
Don’t wanna go back to PRC… omg I remember that ugly looking tiny “apartment” unit… in Guangzhou 15 years ago… dirty as hell, 5 flights of stairs no elevators god damn lol… imagine if you break a leg, how do you even go home / leave home?
I’ve been here since I was 8, this is more “home” than China ever was. I can’t even understand the Chinese internet, the slangs. The complete utter lack of mental health awareness and acceptance. Holy shit my parents are so cruel, especially mom. Can’t imagine asking my recent AskLemmy question on a Chinese Forum. Probably get bombarded with “you disrespecful child” comments.
I like the west much more than China, much more progressive.
2nd time i come across you here ;)
In a lot of ways what I see the US turning into is a lot like China. So yeah, that would be tough.
russia actually more than china. USA is heavily influenced by russia, through propaganda, thats why the gop mimics putin’s russia.
Hmm. Well, that’s true, what’s emerging is a lot more of a corrupt morass than an actual, defined one-party system like China has. Maybe something else will grow out of it, but that remains to be seen.
How it acts on the world stage more China-like though. Nativist, aggressive and clueless but still taken seriously because they’re so huge. Probably the economic policy too - China is a lot more protectionist than Russia.









