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We’re so fucked. I hate this country so much. I wish I could leave.
I’ve been trying to move for 15 years and haven’t even been able to get out of the state I grew up in. Sometimes it feels like the whole system is rigged to keep some people from leaving.
For real! Moving is so hard. Because you need to find somewhere to live, somewhere to work, and how to move all your possessions, usually with a very small window of time, as you need to keep bringing money in to stay afloat. Not to mention the sheer cost of moving - overlapping rent/mortgage payments, renting a truck, etc. And then there is all the logistical hassle - starting and stopping utilities, updating ID, changing addresses for important accounts.
And all that is just within the country. Leaving entirely, especially to live and work somewhere else, is even more difficult than all of that! Not to mention, then you’re likely leaving behind all social connections you have, and you may need to learn a new language.
People who go “if you hate it so much, or you don’t feel safe, just leave” have no idea what they’re talking about
They think we can just show up in another country and live there. That that's our right, as white people or something, because they certainly don't extend that kind of hospitality to brown people who show up here.