It's making me really reconsider staying in the country if I'm being honest, something I genuinely never thought of a year ago.
Whenever people say shit like this I always wonder where they expect to go?
If you're an American citizen you can't just waltz into another country and ask to stay for four years even if things do become as unaffordable as you think.
Do you have some other country you'd be able to get a work visa at? Some dual citizenship thing going on?
If not the best you'll manage is probably a tourist visa then you're back here in 90 days at best.
It reminds me of the woman who moved to Norway or whatever the fuck to flee Trump, only to suffer because she was told she can't live there without a job, and couldn't get a job because she wasn't there legally to work. She was told to go back home.
So, what is the actual plan here? Especially given many places in Europe are going to be even more expensive, Canada has stricter immigration laws than we do, and many others in south America... well they come with their own issues even if they're cheap.
Moving to another country, unless you already have inroads, is something that takes years.
And if the only issue is cost, do you not have family? Friends? Even strangers you could try to be roommates with to share expenses? Why jump straight to leaving the country?
If you're gonna spend thousands of dollars on a move, why not move to a flyover state where rent is cheaper, and you might be able to find something to make ends meet?
I never understood the point of catastrophizing like this. Even under Biden, with the endless lock downs, having to work multiple jobs and live with roommates to make ends meet for a while, even watching my food costs double, and often opting to no longer buy eggs and butter because they just got too damn expensive I never considered leaving the country.
Why? Because I knew it wasn't going to last forever, and I knew people had gone through plenty worse in the past and made it through the other side.
And with how bad the economy had gotten I knew it was more likely that other people in the country would be feeling the same way and not want more of the same. People vote after looking at their bank accounts and wallets more than anything else.
So I tuned out of politics, didn't read the news, didn't lurk on the farms except to read threads on apolitical cows, read some books, took a lot of long walks, and did a lot of working.
I have no idea what you could be looking at in your life to think leaving is going to fix much of anything even if it were plausible. Especially given during trumps last term things got cheaper - groceries, gas, the lot. Given he hasn't radically changed his views on much of anything, the hysterical sky is falling routine seems very unwarranted unless there's additional context you're not sharing.
