Any US Expatriates here?

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Oubaas

So based on your points 1, 2, and 3, you're looking for a defenseless place full of atheists where no one is ever punished for their crimes?

You don't actually need to move to another country if that's the case. There are plenty of places right here in the US that meet those requirements, especially on the west coast, but lots of other places as well.

The things to which you object exist in forms so spectacular in many other countries that you couldn't begin to imagine it.

The things that you seem to desire often do not even exist in other countries.

You seem to have developed your picture of this country and the rest of the world based on propaganda and movies. That's not the way that the world really is, regardless of what the propagandists and moviemakers would lead you to believe.

You can't save the world. If you manage to get through life relatively unscathed yourself, you'll have done well. Reading your complaints and your ideas for addressing them, you appear to be getting ready to jump out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Base your life decisions on logic and reason, not emotion. If you act on the basis of emotion, the probability is high that you'll regret it.

You're obviously unhappy, but I don't believe that it's actually due to the reasons that you've identified. People whose lives are, "quite fine" are not usually looking to move to another country to start over.

You stress far too much about things over which you do not have control, and over which you will never have any control.

Identify the real basis of your unhappiness. If you act now, you'll just end up still unhappy, while trying to learn a new language and adapt to new surroundings.

The grass is always greener over the septic tank. Your view of this country and the world is unrealistic. Do not act on it. I base this on a life full of having lived all over the world. If you think that things are bad here, be thankful that you've never lived in some of the places that I've lived.

Learn to be happy with whatever comes. Other people can't make you angry and upset. They don't possess that kind of power. You have to choose to be angry and upset. But you can also choose to not be angry and upset, and to be happy and to enjoy life right where you are. Fleeing from unhappiness is like trying to flee from your shadow.

I am actually not unhappy personally(quite presumptuous of you), I have a great life, but I an unhappy with this country and do not see it changing anytime soon, it is descending into a worse state. These are systemic issues that predate me and that will likely outlast me or not change until I am quite elderly. I am relatively young and desire to live in a better nation, and there is much evidence to show some of those I am considering moving to have a much better way of life, are a bit more evolved. I've traveled to all states in the US and while some are better than others, still has the same systematic issues. I've traveled internationally a bit as well, but yet to live abroad.

Also, I am not being "emotional" (Could you be more condescending?) or believe things because of propaganda, but I have seen them first hand through my profession and personal experiences.


"Learn to be happy with whatever comes." That really made my eyes roll, that is the mindset of a "settler". Someone who settles for everything in life and pretends/convinces themselves are happy, so the live out their days existing..."Learning to be happy with whatever comes" . I hate to be presumptuous, but I know the type.



Anyways, thanks for the response.