Where I'd live in the US as a Canadian

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DaMummy@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 316d (9 replies)

Don't complain. There's literally people that live in America right now. Send your thoughts and prayers.

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 315d (2 replies)
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BroBot9000@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 315d

Gosh this is solid gold! Absolutely stealing this one.

Hackworth@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 315d
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WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 316d (4 replies)

We appreciate that but what we really need are more bullets and prescription drugs

CircaV@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 316d (3 replies)

Sure give them mOaR BuLLeTs, how many school shootings were there yesterday?

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 315d

Never enough. Apparently.

SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 315d

Not enough

WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 315d

Generally it's a non zero chance

CircaV@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 316d

I basically dgaf about - oh I dunno - 178 million of them. You know, the 77 million who voted for this fascist clownshow plus the 101 million who didn’t even bother voting. They can all rot in their self-made hell for all I care.

IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 316d (14 replies)

I'd probably reluctantly live in Hawaii. If someone were paying me an unreasonable amount of money to do so. Distance seems to temper the worst of the bullshit.

cmbabul@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 316d (9 replies)

By this time next year it will either be its own thing or part of another country, this place will be a Balkanized mess by then

deacon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 315d (3 replies)

It will be increasingly overrun by tech bros who are setting up compounds to hunker down through the worst of whatever the future holds.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 315d

they also found out that they couldnt run thier little compounds efficiently, no waste removal system. just the other month i think BEZOs was complaining about human waste not be properly disposed from his compund/island.

cmbabul@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 315d (1 reply)

If they can build their corpo-feudal city states they may not. We're all probably gonna have to fight eventually, may as well do it in paradise?

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 315d

it will be like the future in 4400 show, where the affluent powerful live in a pristine city.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 315d (1 reply)

trumps already trying to withold funding for 16 blue states. balkanization maybe sooner than expected.

cmbabul@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 315d

Finally someone talking sense, really depressing sense, but sense nonetheless

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 315d (2 replies)

By this time next year it will either be its own thing or part of another country

LOL, what? Is Hawaii joining New Zealand or Japan or something?

cmbabul@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 315d

No clue, but with the escalations towards the occupations of American cities they will have their hands full

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 315d

its closer in culture to native NZ people, or any of the polynesian islands in the indian ocean or near australia.

skeptomatic@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 315d (1 reply)

What else would you do, reluctantly, for money?
See, Larry Ellison owns about 98% of the island of Lanai. He's got a bunker there.
Zuckerberg also owns property on Lanai, has a bunker there (a Lanai local told me), in addition to his ranch on Kauai.
Peter Thiel, probably similar. Musk, similar... Oprah, etc.
So we'll get you the GoFundMe money, but we have a mission for you...

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 315d

Thiel tried to make his own "f-boy island" i think it kinda failed.

Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 314d

Also if I get to displace some American jag off that moved there. They don’t get to trade with me and come here, but I get to kick them out and take their house.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 315d

or alaska, but its probably better to be in mexico or canada.

miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 316d (3 replies)

Definitely not even for a visit.

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 316d

Even the snowbirds I know are taking a pass. That country is in a badddd place.

CircaV@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 316d

🛎️🛎️🛎️

orbitz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 315d

Yeah I was thinking visiting was off limits, and I think I'm taken as a white dude, though generics will say otherwise. Half my ancestors discovered America the other half didn't think they lost it, sort of thing. Also I try not to visit countries with fascist governments.

Flying_Dutch_Rudder@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 316d (4 replies)

As a colour blind Canadian, I’m horribly confused. Is this a never or absolutely? You don’t happen to be from Alberta by any chance, do you?

nocturne@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 315d

Never is in red, absolutely is in green, the entire map is colored red. There is nothing but the never red shown anywhere on the map beyond the key.

It is a bad choice for the colors chosen, as they are the perfect red/green opposite for color blindness to see as the same color.

Note: this not written as snarky to Fly_Dutch_Rudder, itt is meant as a helpful explanation of the map.

CircaV@lemmy.ca · -10 pts · 316d (2 replies)
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Flying_Dutch_Rudder@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 316d (1 reply)

Guy, I can’t see the difference between the red and the green you picked.

SpacePanda@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 315d

in case you were serious its a never live anywhere

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 316d (5 replies)

/c/mapswithoutnewzealand

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 315d (4 replies)

Not that we'd expect this one to.

Weird that that community doesn't exist on Lemmy yet.

@Dave@lemmy.nz, would you be up for hosting it? Having it on the NZ instance would be *chef's kiss*.

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 315d

/c/fediversewithoutmapswithoutnewzealand

Dave@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 314d

I'll throw together a survey for Lemmy.nz users and see what people think 🙂

Dave@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 310d (1 reply)
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 310d

This is great!

absentbird@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 315d (1 reply)

Fuck I don't want to live here either. Please annex Washington, we'll come willingly.

DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d

You can join Poland willingly or be conquered.

QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 315d (7 replies)

Wish I could relate. At this point im waiting for Canada to announce asylum for transpeople

festus@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 315d (4 replies)

Realistically Canada is going to put off allowing asylum seekers from the US as long as possible, as the volumes of asylum seekers the US handles (that are no longer welcome there) would overwhelm Canada. That's without considering American asylum seekers too.

You best bet is to consider immigrating through traditional, economic based pathways.

QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 315d

You best bet is to consider immigrating through traditional, economic based pathways.

Great I'm disabled and never finished College, so that's probably not gonna happen

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 315d

its either mexico or canada. EU if your a PHD/MD in niche specailities holder, willing to have less income than in the states, but they dont see the problem anyways.

OH yea, because US citizens is sitll not immediate threat from systemic persecution, war zone, or wanton killings.

CircaV@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 315d (1 reply)

All my profs at my Canadian undergrad university were American, they had left because of Kent State. A lot have already come up here again.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 315d

and MD recently denied an offer from ULCA heading a surgical team to be in one of Canadas healthcare clinics/university.

BanMe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 315d

Canada already has precedent of not extraditing trans people here because of the climate for queer people. June I think.

M0oP0o@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 315d

? just come on over, I don't think we are closed off to immigration. Unless you are an ass, then I am not your buddy pal.

JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 316d

What about Puerto Rico or the US Virgin Islands?

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 315d

That's how I feel, and I'm American. Wanted to go expat during Trumpfest 1 but the wife wouldn't budge.

SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 315d (7 replies)

I really hope other countries start allowing lgbtqia+ people to immigrate as asylum seekers.

I'm so sick of living in this shithole country.

QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 315d (5 replies)

No one on Earth could be as cruel as the US is to its own people

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 315d

I understand the dislike for the US, but I think it's disingenuous to suggest that there aren't any other countries just as bad as the current admin, if not worse.

Half of the countries in the world are horrible places to live. Actually it might be more than half, but you get the idea.

SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 315d (3 replies)

Any suggestions on where to try moving to?

QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 313d (2 replies)

I wish I had any but from what I understand. If you aren't rich its hard to move to another country. A shame because I would be Canadian or European for my own safety if I could

SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 313d (1 reply)

Hopefully, other countries will start offering asylum to Americans who want/need to get out.

QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 310d

I am praying for that

CircaV@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 315d

I don’t know about other countries but Canada has issued warnings for Canadians with gender neutral passports to avoid the US.

theUwUhugger@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 316d (1 reply)

Trump’s wasn’t called by canadians?

He was called by CANADA

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 316d

It was one big conference call, we were all on it.

Somebody was chewing food (I’m looking at you Todd from Kingston Ontario), but the call went okay.

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 315d (1 reply)

Puerto Rico? Strange choice, but cool.

desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 315d

beat me to it.

golden_zealot@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 315d

So... Guam?

webp@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 315d

Where I'd live in the US as an american

TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 315d

Fuck I got family down there and Im not even gonna visit.

No fuckin thank you

PieMePlenty@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 315d (1 reply)

I don't know.. Id probably live in Hawaii or Oregon or Washington. They sound like nice places, but I they're probably still very off from my European sensibilities. New England sounds nice too.

thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d

Even before the current shit that's going down, I would advise against moving to the states. it's just not worth it.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · -1 pts · 315d

As an American looking at Canada, the only red is Quebec, excepting Montreal.