I felt exactly the same and is why I left. It’s not just transportation that’s wrong, just overall I don’t have the power to change it myself and I don’t think there’s enough or a push for it to change in my lifetime.
I just got tired of spending so much money on my car. Don’t get me wrong, I loved that thing, and I babied the shit out of it. That being said, I don’t want it in my life, it’s like having a dependent and I don’t miss having to wake up in the morning and bus across town to pick up my car because I decided to have two or three beers the night before.
Agreed. I left just shy of 7 years ago. It’s got to the point where American problems don’t feel like my problems anymore. To say I have given up would be a stretch… I still follow the news and vote because I want to do whatever little I can to help the people I care about who still live there. It’s otherwise hard to stay engaged when it feels so bleak.
Talking to the girlfriend, we kinda both agree that we would never move there full time… At most maybe a 1 month vacation. Even from “third world” countries I feel like I live a better life than most of the people I have left behind. It kinda breaks my heart knowing they could do so much better. Oh well.
Even if you move away, not following American news is like not looking at the crocodile living in your apartment. It’s a country whose influence affects the entire world. Likewise goes for China and to a much lesser extent, Russia.
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I felt exactly the same and is why I left. It’s not just transportation that’s wrong, just overall I don’t have the power to change it myself and I don’t think there’s enough or a push for it to change in my lifetime.
I just got tired of spending so much money on my car. Don’t get me wrong, I loved that thing, and I babied the shit out of it. That being said, I don’t want it in my life, it’s like having a dependent and I don’t miss having to wake up in the morning and bus across town to pick up my car because I decided to have two or three beers the night before.
Agreed. I left just shy of 7 years ago. It’s got to the point where American problems don’t feel like my problems anymore. To say I have given up would be a stretch… I still follow the news and vote because I want to do whatever little I can to help the people I care about who still live there. It’s otherwise hard to stay engaged when it feels so bleak.
Talking to the girlfriend, we kinda both agree that we would never move there full time… At most maybe a 1 month vacation. Even from “third world” countries I feel like I live a better life than most of the people I have left behind. It kinda breaks my heart knowing they could do so much better. Oh well.
Even if you move away, not following American news is like not looking at the crocodile living in your apartment. It’s a country whose influence affects the entire world. Likewise goes for China and to a much lesser extent, Russia.