You know that sort of thing is why my response to racists saying "don't like it? Just go back to your home country" tends to be so hateful toward them.

The global north sucks but this is my home and I actually literally can't easily go to my parents' home country because I'd fit in even worse. They'd treat me as an outsider there too, and actually with much better grounds because I'd be "the American". Culturally I'm not a fit. Language? I have the comprehension of maybe a 6 month old, if that. Religion? Apostate so that's fantastic. Heat tolerance? I think I would actually just die of heatstroke, and no, AC isn't the solution because brownouts are frequent.

As things have gotten worse I've wondered if I should try to go somewhere else -- if not my parents' home country then another place -- and I always land back on: at least I have friends here and I know the culture and the landscape.