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But why?! The USA is a paradise for women! Isn’t that what Margaret Atwood taught us!?
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Online surveys that ask women if they want to leave the United States often produce misleading results for several reasons.
First, these surveys capture wishful thinking rather than actual plans. When people answer an online poll, they respond based on imagination rather than commitment. Saying you want to move to another country is similar to saying you want to live on a beach or work fewer hours. It reflects a fantasy, not a genuine intention.
Second, these surveys attract people who are already dissatisfied or curious about change. This creates a self selected group that does not represent the population as a whole. If someone is bored, stressed, or daydreaming about a different lifestyle, they are more likely to click the poll.
Third, many respondents interpret the question emotionally rather than practically. Wanting to “leave the country” can actually mean wanting a break, wanting adventure, or wanting to travel. It rarely means navigating visas, finding new jobs, learning new languages, or building a life abroad. Travel and exploration are appealing because they offer novelty without long term consequences. True immigration requires commitment that most people never make.
Because of these factors, online polls mainly reveal a desire for change or travel rather than a real plan to emigrate. They reflect mood and curiosity, not a solid decision to leave the country.
truly shocking. Who’d have thunk treating a demographic like shit and taking away all their rights would cause them to leave!?
Yeah, I get why women don’t want to live here, particularly in states that have banned abortion. It’s fucked up, and I don’t fault them for abandoning their country.
I do hope enough of us keep fighting, though.
I know, right? That’s obviously not how people really behave!
Who’d have thunk treating a demographic like shit and taking away all their rights would cause them to leave!?
And yet enabled by other women
https://truthout.org/articles/yes-55-percent-of-white-women-voted-for-trump-no-im-not-surprised/
Yes, 55 Percent of White Women Voted for Trump. No, I’m Not Surprised.
It’s time to stop coddling white women when they bolster white supremacy, and to push for concrete acts of solidarity.
I have a good American friend here in Germany who has a great chance of getting a permanent status and later citizenship. She’s already pretty good at German after 2 years and was offered a permanent local contract. She told me last week she’s probably not taking the offer and going back to the US because she earns more and pays less taxes there. I asked about healthcare cost and all she talked about was how contraception was completely free in her american insurance and she has a copay here, how much less taxes she paid and she didn’t like how the German law handles paternity issues (it’s harder to get out of your obligations if your wife cheated and the kid isn’t yours).
It was so weird. So many American women wish they were in her position and all she talked about was going back to the US due to paternity laws and the 10€ copay on her contraception which made her really angry for some reason.
she didn’t like how the German law handles paternity issues (it’s harder to get out of your obligations if your wife cheated and the kid isn’t yours).
Major red flag for her partner lol
I don’t believe this would be a major opinion by any woman I have ever known. This is likely a fictitious post.
Why? She thinks it should be more in favor of the man and he should be able to easily up and leave anytime after finding out the kid isn’t his.
I guess… But why even care about that unless you plan to cheat? I feel like most people would never even know that’s a thing. There’s really only one reason someone would look that up.
I’m afraid this one reason might be much more common that you seem to think.
Didn’t say it was uncommon
Right, just pointing out that if it’s common then it might be worth caring about even if it doesn’t affect you personally.
People be stupid, yo! I decided in 1999 I’d never again set foot on US soil because I’d rather pay higher taxes and have a sane society around me.
And now I pay lower taxes than a USAnian and have a sane society around me.
Don’t you miss it sometimes, not living in constant fear that someone with an AR15 could have a bad day near you or your loved ones?
I never did have that fear. I’ve never lived in the USA.
Now if things get much hotter I might have a minor niggling fear that a US bomb will drop on my head, but for now not even Trump and his coterie are stupid enough to let things get that far.
Where is this magical place, if you don’t mind saying? I’d love to live there. :)
Me personally, I live in Wuhan.
Awesome, thanks for answering!
Its USA brainwashing, they feel they are fighting the “enemy” by not paying tax. Even though that extra take home pay ends up going to health care, or car expenses due to lack of transit etc.
It comes from the idea that our government is so inherently corrupt that they can’t be trusted to do anything correctly with our money, so people would rather keep their money and spend it on themselves directly.
And I have to say these people are justified, our government doesn’t spend our money on worthwhile things.
I think the systems where people pay higher taxes usually work better, tho.
We don’t even need to raise taxes. All the money we need for social services is in the military budget that hasn’t passed a successful audit this century.
Yeah, we have literally all the money we need to pay for all our social services.
We spend as much as the next 7 largest militaries COMBINED.
It’s such a massive grift, and we can’t touch the military budget because it’s the only form of welfare that works and tons of Americans NEED it.
I’d be fine with our military expenditures if we used them for civil engineering in peacetime… And I guess we would have to stop those pesky undeclared wars as a happy knock on effect.
we spend more on healthcare than the military last i checked (but again, no audit on DoD spending so…)
Even so, that’s ~800 billion that could be used for social services and improving lives.
Also if we’re so skint that we can’t afford to take care of the basics…how did we find all that ICE money? After a massive revenue cut, also!
People are emotional creatures.
People also don’t seem to accept that you often get something for paying taxes. Infrastructure, schools, food inspectors, whatever.
Yikes. Does she wear a MAGA hat? She sounds like the type.
No, actually she worked on one of Kamala Harris’ campaigns and proudly wears the campaign tshirt. Which is why her attitude confused me so much. I’m not sure what’s going on with her other than that even a well educated American can still have a lot of indoctrination and believe the American way is always the best way.
Leftist groups in China have learned not to engage with American leftist groups since the 2020 Pride fiasco in Shanghai. American groups always act as if they know better than locals what local conditions are, what local culture will or will not tolerate, and what tactics will or will not work under local conditions. The LGBT community spent decades on patient diplomacy winning all kinds of victories (like queer sex being removed from criminal law and queerness being removed as a mental disorder) for themselves. Then in 2009 they got persuaded by American LGBT groups to hold Pride events. And when that didn’t get stomped, to get more and more confrontational and strident in them.
Until in 2020 the authorities had had enough and stomped. Hard. Undoing at least three decades of the patient diplomacy in the process.
Now leftist groups in China do the polite “nod, smile, ignore” cycle when told by Americans how to run their affairs.
even a well educated American can still have a lot of indoctrination and believe the American way is always the best way.
I think this is it too.
Yeah, I would too if I went on a road trip across the country and gained and lost human rights as I crossed state borders.
I wouldnt mind moving out of the US.
I’m not a woman but it’s been my dream for years. Now that I have a child it’s my goal to help him escape.
Quite a few European countries including the UK I believe are starting to develop policies that would help highly educated Americans get citizenship on a fast track scheme. We don’t want a lot of scientific knowledge to go away just because America has decided to fall apart. Come work on our particle accelerators, experimental fusion reactors, or join the European space agency. It would be nice if we could have human space flight independent of Roscosmos and NASA. Maybe we could even beat NASA back to the moon, since I can’t really see Artemis making any progress anytime soon.
I don’t think anyone’s got as far as actually implementing any of these policies yet, but they’re on the way.
I’m sure China would also happily accept Americans, but you might not want to go that route.
Did I mention I have an art degree lol. However my wife is an engineer, I’m trying to convince her but it’s slow going. She doesn’t think it’s as urgent as I do
Same. My wife doesn’t want to be far away from family.
I’ve got 2 kids and I want them to have a better life.
I’ve looked into emigrating and I’m afraid I just don’t have the spoons for it either. Between those 2 hurdles, I don’t know if it’ll ever happen.
Still, there’s potential. We both have degrees. I just hope she doesn’t become a target. She’s a little higher profile.
The irony is the Conservatives wanted women’s rights removed and have them back at home to make white babies, because they fear the mixed culture. And they may now be left with a country mostly made of men, which will obviously shrink their baby birthing plan.
this forced birthing thing sort of reminds me of one child policy in a way… ironically no one is thinking about how this will impact men long term. women are just supposed to fulfill this need for companionship and reproduction without any reciprocation, even though everything on this planet, even breathing, is transactional. when we inhale we get oxygen and when we exhale we give CO2. it is physically impossible to get something for nothing in this world. if you want a woman to have your kids, you’ve got to pay her in some way. if you don’t provide for her, and she can’t provide for herself, it is physically impossible for her to have enough calories to produce a child and physically impossible for her to have enough money to raise it. that’s just life. and if you try to arm twist women (or anyone or anything else) into doing the impossible, they’re just going to totally disengage.
And nobody will have babies with economy bad because women at home. But that’s too complicated for them.
Can confirm. Moved from the Midwest and dated a Mexican, family “othered” me from that point onward. That relationship didn’t work out for unrelated reasons but now being with a French, can also confirm we would both love to move to his country, but the place we can make the most positive impact is, unfortunately, here. We don’t plan on having kids because we understand it does truly take a village and that kind of support doesn’t exist in the U.S. especially not now. Breaks my heart because he would make an amazing dad.
Weird, I wonder why? 🫠
Can’t imagine why…. So odd…
To anyone who truly feels this way, please consider coming to Australia.
We aren’t perfect, but we will damned sure treat you a lot better than the US has.
Chinese in Australia are reporting differently.
My comment was explicitly towards those disenfranchised within the US, who would face no issue with assimilating into Australian society and culture.
Just for the record: 我老婆是中国人，所以我了解澳大利亚的种族歧视问题。
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“Also older women. And younger men. And older men.”
Someone didn’t read the article. Or look at the graphs. Despite the graphs being at the head of the post.
Who can blame them?
Well at least somebody is paying attention.
If you’re educated or have a Department of Labor recognized skilled labor certificate (for example Union Apprenticeship) GTFO of the USA.
If this is a suprise you’re a fucking idiot
I am highly educated, but I’m a single parent. That seems to pretty much tank my worth across the board.
Is that actually true for you in America?
So far you sound like a catch. Good conversation and no more diapers? Awesome!!!
Yeah it’s a pretty big dealbreaker for a lot of people. Even if kids are grown and independent. Fair enough.
Its been my experience that the most interesting person is someone that has stuff to do. Things going on…
