I left before the first time the idiot was elected. My only regret is choosing Japan over Europe (really shitty Japanese work conditions, even when a company starts out really nice).
Sounds like these folks didn’t do much research before they moved. The idea that you’d move to Poland to escape America’s right wing - like, are you joking?
I’ll admit that I’ve set up a few international job alerts just in case I get lucky, but I wouldn’t move without good work unless I was truly in a situation where I needed asylum.
I’ve lived outside the US for about 30 of my seventy-some years, for non-political reasons. Now I’m living in England. Though I didn’t have to learn a new language, cultural norms are still different enough that there are can be occasional surprises and potential misunderstandings. On the plus side, it’s a culture that values conversation and storytelling, and I enjoy that. And, compared to the US, there is a much greater tolerance for non-conformity and individuality (something I didn’t realize until I’d been here a while).
What I learned when I left the US the first time is that it’s equally disorienting when you return to the US. Reverse culture shock is a thing. I noticed a lot of things about my native culture that I’d previously assumed were universal. They’re not. And some of them are quite dysfunctional.
Besides England, I also lived for several years in a society that is massively different from the US, and where in my daily life, I’d seldom hear English spoken. Being a visible foreigner in such a place is an experience I strongly recommend. It teaches resiliency and humility.
I left and don’t regret it at all.
Where did you go?
They complained of no dishwasher or clothes dryer, If they moved into an older British home they just weren’t setup for that 60-100 years ago. Its why you see washing machines in the kitchen in many old homes because that’s where you can access the plumbing.
The surprise that “free” healthcare comes out of taxes, and immigrants pay a premium to access healthcare ( is common world wide) shows the typical American ignorance.
The influencer complaining they can’t find work in the UK. Well LOL
My house in the US (>100 yrs old) had neither of those things when I bought it. I did add them (including dryer alongside my washer in kitchen), but only because I eventually had enough money that I could. I was fine without them.
Were your walls plaster and lathboards? Some of the UK houses I have seen are an inner and outer layer of brick, and running anything is a pain. You often see wiring outside of the walls because its too hard to run places.
Nope, plantation house, single wall construction. The kind built by sugar plantation workers in Hawaii. Probably very easy to run things in comparison
I’m in the UK. We have a clothes dryer. It’s a rope, with its own dedicated eyelets attached to the house and the back fence. If it’s rainy, you bring the clothes in. In the winter, you hang your clothes indoors near a radiator. It has the added benefit that the clothes smell fresh if and when they dry outside.
Yeah there is nothing like outside dried laundry.
Can’t they just… influence? I mean if ever there were a job you could do from anywhere…
They can, they just don’t want to start from scratch, they had brand deals here, and their brands don’t care as much as them over there.
Pretty much what 90% of this is… “they had a life, job and everything in the united states, they gave everything up and moved to another country, and pikachu face, starting from scratch isn’t easy.”
So true 💯
In my personal opinion Americans should stay in America.
I personally think they should travel more, live outside of the US, see what works and what doesn’t and then maybe return home and fix some of the problems in their society.
Living in a different country with different culture than you are used to is just tough. It’s not about better or worse, just different. I know after 6 months abroad I felt really ready to come home and had a new appreciation for some things about my local culture I hadn’t realized weren’t universal.
I mean, we live different lifestyles. UK people coming here often find us barbaric, and I am not gonna lie, no washer and dryer does sound like hell. I have also watched quite a lot of British news and heard a lot of citizens mention how TERFy it can be there, and it genuinely seems worse then it is here, even mid-attack on trans people, which sounds absolutely barbaric to me as a transgender American. I think both places suck in unique ways.
and heard a lot of citizens mention how TERFy it can be there
That’s just the politicians. The Conservatives and the Reform (fascist) party are bigots; Labour is infiltrated by TERFs. The Greens have an inclusive policy. I have trans friends and colleagues, and the official discrimination here isn’t nearly as bad as it is in the US under Trump, so far. And in daily social life, people just get along. It’s also less homophobic here, even in a largely rural county like the one I live in.
Whoah there, that’s three political parties you named. Us here in the US of A can’t count past two politcal parties.
That was four (Cons, Labour, Greens and Reform) and even then I simplified. There are two more small nationwide parties that I didn’t mention (Restore, for the voters who don’t think Reform is fascist enough) and the Liberal Democrats (a centrist party that has hung on for decades, but seems increasingly irrelevant lately). Then there are the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Plaid Cymru (the Welsh nationalists).
It’s effectively a two-party system in the UK. In England, that has been Labour and the Conservatives, but the Conservatives’ support has collapsed and been replaced by Reform. In Scotland, the two major parties are the SNP and Labour. In Wales, it’s now Labour and Plaid.
Yeah, the UK always struck me as extremely conservative.
Come here and see for yourself, you might be surprised. And make sure you don’t just stay in London. That’s not how most of the UK is. London’s not worse, it’s just atypical.
Pyawalled.
I think Americans should stay in America and take care of their own country.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
Samuel Clemens
Aww…poor bot
