Haha this was me, except even around age 20, when I moved to the UK, I was thinking I might want to move to the USA later in life. But the more I've learned about the country since, the less I'd want to live there. The gun mania, the religion mania, the actual political options being all squeezed into the centre-to-far-right spectrum all sound nightmarish. (Tbh we're kinda having that last issue in the UK too, but to a less extreme degree.)

That's me. Wanted to move there because software engineer. Now I'm 30 and fuck no. Major changes would need to happen and even then I'm not sure I'd feel safe. It's not the damn shootings that bother me even, it's that so many people support Trump and ICE. Those people will still be around even when Trump is gone. Meaning at any time the US could elect a less incompetent version of Trump.