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[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

I’m taking Spanish right now, both to better support immigrants in my community and to possibly move to Oaxaca Mexico if necessary. I plan to visit a few more times in the next year or so, just to figure out things just in case. I don’t feel like it’s the time to leave yet - I have a pretty good intuitive sense for disasters.

I LEANfired at 44 so I can’t really go somewhere that requires a work visa, and I’m not rich enough for a golden ticket in many places.

France is actually a possibility because I’m fluent, I lived there briefly- but I prefer the art and culture in Mexico, and generally people are easier to get to know.

I’m also visiting my friends off grid in Montana, and may discuss with them rolling my tiny house up there someday. I know there’s a lot of crazy people up there but where they are is a bit away from that.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

My grandfather was Finnish, so that seems like a natural choice, but I would probably say Uruguay because it seems like a nice relatively affordable place and I could improve my (terrible) Spanish (i don't speak any Finnish).

[-] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

Germany. I might be able to claim ancestry rights. Ironic that my great grandmother fled fascism in Germany but I'd flee America to return to the motherland.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 18 hours ago

Don't come to Ireland. I've lived in the US for nearly two decades, made lots of friends and even helped some to immigrate here. The harsh reality is, however, that we're going through a really bad housing crisis, with our own homeless numbers growing every month, and house prices and rents exploding (a recent statistic showed that our growth in rents is four times the EU average). So, please, for our sake and yours, try a different country.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Netherlands here. The 862.409 Americans that voted for a better country (Jill Stein voters) are more than welcome here. Also, those who face illegal prosecution and genuine threat from the government, ICE and police. The rest would just move our political compass further to the authoritarian side, dems or reps.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

Honestly the Netherlands seems pretty great.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago
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[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

The kind of american that usually comes to Mexico is very nice, very welcome. Maybe the exceptions are the very loud and self absorbed ones that go to resort locations and act like they're better than everyone there.

As long as people want to integrate and cooperate they are more than welcome.

Now, the sad part is the gentrification that comes with a lot of people moving and outpaying rent vs the locals. Now the average cost of living in Mexico city is about 50% higher than the average salary, and about 100% higher than the median salary. Another very negative thing is that now a lot of locals have to communicate in english because American people will come and not learn spanish over multiple years living here. There are zones where everything is in english now. It's okay speaking english, it's not okay expecting english from everyone.

So a few pointers:

  1. Integrate, pay taxes, consume locally
  2. Try and move into already gentrified places, avoid displacing more people
  3. Push for social policy, increased affordable living spaces, invest in the country where you move into to improve the locals' life

Be friendly, but that's always

[-] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

La ciudad de México is what I've been thinking of. seems like a fabulous place. doubt I could take the heat and I'm more likely to end up in Asia, but Mexico City and Toronto are top contenders

[-] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Luckily mexico city is not actually that hot, quite humid though

[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

yeah I'd prefer -30 over +30 and humid

[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Now the good thing with humidity is that refrigeration works wonders, and in Mexico Mini Splits are super cheap, as is electricity

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

I was going to say Italy but they seem to be going fash again so... north sentinel island?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

North Sentinel Island is willing to welcome you with a gift of their finest bow and arrow show 🤗

(Serious tho, please don't disturb uncontacted tribes)

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

I always wanted to live in a country that was totally different from America when I was a kid. I thought either India, China, or Japan back then, but now I’m not sure I’d want to live in any of them right now.

I guess I could go to nearby countries that don’t have global headlines like them say like Bangladesh, Thailand, or Indonesia, but I don’t really know anything about them.

I think the smart option would be somewhere in Europe, but I kinda want to get away or at least take a break from “western” culture.

I guess I can’t name a dream country, but somewhere with a totally different culture. I’d also want it to have a bunch of ruins and historical sites to visit. I’ve never seen anything older than like 150 years in person.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Where do you live in America? The northeast has cities with things/buildings older than the birth of America (pre-1776) if you want to visit.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

As a member of the CAF, if the US Armed Forces are getting rid of LGBTQ folks, I would be proud to welcome them as my comrades in arms.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

Anywhere cold, with decent social services, good shipping, and people that leave me alone on the whole.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago

Ah, welcome to the Nordics!

Hard as fuck to get in, or so I’ve heard.
The shipping might be slower than you’re used to, but we check of on the rest.

See you soon?

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

Here in Canada we're trying to catch America's brain drain. We especially need doctors quite desperately.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

doctors

How's the demand for nurses? I'll be finishing up nursing school in less than a year! :D

Or support staff? I'm a surgical tech now, and some of my coworkers (other techs, schedulers - bottom of the medical food chain, but still with specialty experience) feel trapped here by their lack of higher education.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

Nurses and caretaker staff "Pflege" are needed here in Germany too, but not sure how viable the pay is.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

If I wasn’t locked into this contract with my house I would be applying for work programs in New Zealand on my way to citizenship. When Trump was elected, the first thought that went through my head was, I don’t like winter, so Canada and the Nordics are out. Europe is 0-2 for getting destroyed in World Wars and WW3 is heating up. Africa has its own problems right now, as does South America, and regardless of where you go in Asia it’s not looking good for WW3. So options were Central America or Oceania. I know passable amounts of Spanish, and lived in Central America for a while and I would definitely be OK going back. But if I’m going to move somewhere might as well be somewhere new.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Germany here, only the smart once please. Dont need the idiots. Already got enought here

[-] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Germany has been on my list of places to flee to if the fascists here start rounding up LGBT folks. I have lapsed fluency from when I lived there 30 years ago but I am confident it would come back quickly. The problem is that my husband doesn't speak any German at all and I think it would be a culture shock for him.

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

Californian - i want us, oregon, and washington to join canada.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

It would be a dream if CANZUK happened, then it was joined by California and Cascadia. We could call it CACACANZUK.

That said, you would already be a powerful nation without joining anyone else. Don't wait for us to get organised.

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