This Is Why I Haven't Left America

[ChristisKing]

Funnily enough I was about to post a thread like this and this video came up. I'll just let the man explain my reason instead. For as bad as things are in this country right now it has actually crossed my mind before but then I woke up to the fact that it could be WAY worse.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Funnily enough I was about to post a thread like this and this video came up. I'll just let the man explain my reason instead. For as bad as things are in this country right now it has actually crossed my mind before but then I woke up to the fact that it could be WAY worse.

The problem isn't America or your history of civil liberties, justice for all and willingness to fight for this freedom. Your constitution is the most valuable piece of paper to the worlds citizens, perhaps in history outside of maybe the Magna Carta.

The problem is how many wish to change this and those people and their foreign donors gaining immense power and influence.

Its like China, I don't have anything against Chinese people. I admire their culture, their citizens and even their governments efforts to expand their influence. What the CCP are doing is no different than what America and the West were doing from the 1950s on.

However, becoming like that which you have fought and that which looks to subjugate you is frightening. Even the hippies in the 1960s didn't go full blown control-freak as some have. They certainly didn't wield much political power.

Beyond this is, I believe, a lack of appreciation for where this all leads. If you can avoid WWIII you do so. This is not a test.

 

[carloz]

I don't really believe in moving because some politician or political group is raking you over the coals. Stand your ground. Another thing to think about is your destination. That can change. Your new home could become as bad as your old home. Or worse.

 

[ESay]

Pffff. All that meaningless stuff about communist nations, freedom, 'waking up' etc. In reality, the US is politically and socially very fragile construction, with deeply divided population, and 'extremes' being in charge of their two main parties.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Funnily enough I was about to post a thread like this and this video came up. I'll just let the man explain my reason instead. For as bad as things are in this country right now it has actually crossed my mind before but then I woke up to the fact that it could be WAY worse.

He kind of lost me when he said he was watching FoxNews and then that someone "escaped" China. China is not like East Berlin and the Iron Curtin. They have immigrants all over the world.

Putting that aside, I have been very open on here about my wife and I's plan to retire outside the US in a few years. We are doing so for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest is not the Dems or the Repubs, but the division in our country between the two. It permeates every aspect of our society, "we the people" fight over everything down party lines, and we are tired of it.

I follow an Army Veteran on the internet that lives in the Dominican Republic and has a whole website and blog geared towards helping other Vets leave the US and live as ex-pats. There are far more of them than people realize. There are more than 25,000 in the DR, there are so many in Panama (our planned destination) that there is a VSO in the country and the hospitals/doctors accept TriCare insurance. One of the main reasons Vets give for leaving the country they served is this division, they cannot take it.

But there are many other great reason to live abroad, it is a big and amazing world we live in, why limit yourself to just one place? As a youth I spent 4.5 years living overseas, more than 1/3 of my 20 years in the Marine Corps was spent overseas.

 

[Unkotare]

He kind of lost me when he said he was watching FoxNews and then that someone "escaped" China. China is not like East Berlin and the Iron Curtin. They have immigrants all over the world.
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But no one leaves without permission. Hell, Chinese citizens can't even move within China without a permit.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

This Is Why I Haven't Left America​

Hi RR,

I was thinking more about this while on a walk yesterday and to me I am at the point where I no longer ask "why would I leave the US", it is more of asking myself "why not". I would have to think hard about a good enough reason to stay and not to leave.

 

[ChristisKing]

Hi RR,

I was thinking more about this while on a walk yesterday and to me I am at the point where I no longer ask "why would I leave the US", it is more of asking myself "why not". I would have to think hard about a good enough reason to stay and not to leave.

Do you want to live in a real communist country?