I want to immigrate to someplace that’s not a shit hole teetering on the brink. The culture is so fucking violent and geared towards crushing the human spirit, it really is a blight. Is there any place in the world that’s halfway decent and isn’t infected with burger brain disease? Especially if it’s easy for an angloid simpleton such as myself to assimilate.
Edit: also trans friendly! Or at least not a danger zone like half the US.
What sort of life are you looking for? Do you want a relatively familiar lifestyle (ie western), English speaking, similar material wealth? Or would you be fine completely changing everything, speaking Spanish or Arabic or Chinese, owning next to nothing, and maybe losing life options but otherwise not being forced into a 9-5 slog.
Europe has a lot of problems, and your experience will vary a lot depending on the country. But it will be an easier transition for an American compared with idk, Honduras or China. And although Europe sucks in a lot of ways, it is better in certain key areas. More walkable cities, little to no second amendment gun nuts, more consumer protections, more vacation, etc. Of course as a tankie I understand the political and economic limitations of Europe, but practically speaking it is not a bad option for an American.
In spite of the public figures and reputation, I’d argue the UK is honestly fairly trans-friendly as a culture IME. In decades of knowing and seeing trans people out, as well not always dressing to my own supposed gender. I’ve never seen anyone have a hard time for it anywhere (I’m sure it happens, but clearly not that frequently).
It’s still a crumbling fascistic country in decline, but not really any more so than all of the fucking west. I’d still rather be here than the USA. Downside is citizenship gets you access to butt nowhere else, whereas EU gets you access to all the EU.
I’m looking for some familiarity, I need some space to do woodworking and access to nature for outdoorsy things. I kinda want less stuff in my life tbh, I feel like consumerism is eating at my soul. I’ve thought about a few places in Europe, particularly Portugal because it’s easy to get citizenship, which can then get you access to the rest of the EU and the Netherlands and or some place in Scandinavia sounds good. Easier route would be Canada, but it’s so burger adjacent I’m not sure I could stomach it.
You may want to start lurking on the AmerExit community. Might give you some ideas. You’re definitely not alone in that regard.
Reading this thread reminds me that USA and Canada are the worst countries for social life in the fucking world… Probably in all of human history for that matter.
Fuck I hate it here, but I will probably never know anything else (at least not while I’m still young)
The US doesn’t have a walking culture outside some cities like NY, Boston, DC, San Francisco, and maybe Chicago. In most part of the US it’s strange to see people walking at random, or any, hours. I spent some time in Sugarland, Texas, and walked to the pharmacy once, some 15-20 minutes walk and people stopped to ask me if I was okay. The HOA president contacted the family I was staying with to let them know walking was regulated and someone in the house was violating the rules.
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I wanted to leave Burgerland too, but I settled for moving to the Atlantic northeast… and for the most part, it’s been an improvement. Striking a balance between what you can afford for living conditions and being close enough to a less-chuddy urban area like Chicago or NYC where some of those vibes reach you can help too.
This is also what I did. The urban northeast feels like a different country. It has problems of gross inequality, poverty, and gentrification (I suppose I’m contributing to them), but no one is particularly bothered by me being trans and there are far more left wing people and groups.
Burger brain disease is just a more advanced stage of capitalism plus settler colonialism, which is practically everywhere to one degree or another (minus settler colonialism in some places). Not to mention the Empire’s influence is everywhere.
If a big concern for you is anti-trans violence, anywhere in East Asia would be much better than the US simply because there’s much less violence in general. I like both mainland China and Taiwan. Taiwan is pretty lgbt friendly but is also pretty anti-communist. I know Chinese has a reputation for being difficult to learn, but I think that difficulty is over stated too
Tbh, I might try moving to a deep blue part of the US. Way easier to culturally assimilate, don’t need to learn a new language
I’ve thought of this as well, I love Seattle, never been to NYC though. But Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal also sound nice because it’s similar flavor without it being in burger land proper.
