• bitwaba@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Good luck man!

    As someone that left the US a decade and a half ago, here’s some things to go ahead and start getting answers to so you don’t have to figure it out when the time comes:

    • Figure out how to get a bank account (hopefully you’ve already worked this one out before arriving)
    • Where to buy toiletries and medicine. Specifically deodorant. The UK is mostly spray deodorant where as I’m a stick deodorant person. At one point I was just bringing 4 sticks of deodorant back with me after every trip home. I’m not sure which way NZ leans but it was definitely something I hadn’t considered before
    • Where to buy socks and underwear you’re comfortable with
    • Figure out how the health service/insurance works. Go ahead and book dentist and doctors appointments 6 months in advance if possible so you get in the habit.
    • Figure out how paying taxes works
    • If you’re a US citizen, remember you’re still required to file taxes with the IRS every year.
    • Learn how to make friends. I still haven’t figured this one out. Let me know if you do.
  • bluewing@lemm.ee
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    6 hours ago

    Ahhh, the privileged leaving behind the many to suffer that want to leave but can’t.

    • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      do you blame them? should they stay until everyone that wants to leave can too?
      a lot of people fled nazi germany before they started killing people too….
      and, you can leave too… just maybe not with much money….

      if i had a trans kid, i’d take them to any country that wasn’t trying to kill them…

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      Sorry to say for you and me, but suffering under fascism doesn’t solve anything. If we don’t defect or rebel, we’ll just end up in mass graves.

      • r0ertel@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        That’s a bit harsh. Like my old man always said, “you gotta know when to hold 'em; know when to fold 'em; know when to walk away and know when to run.”

        • frog_brawler@lemmy.world
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          6 hours ago

          It’s not. Granted, I 100% respect and understand someone’s decision to leave the USA at this time, but there’s very little that’s courageous about putting yourself into a better situation. It’s the next option up from rolling over and dying.

          • bitwaba@lemmy.world
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            6 hours ago

            Yeah, walking away from every person you’ve ever known and every support system you’ve ever had in hopes of a better future with no real promises to fall back on if it doesn’t work out isn’t courageous at all.

            • frog_brawler@lemmy.world
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              5 hours ago

              I’d call courageous moving into a red state… and then everything you said above still applies. I moved from a red state to a blue state in October. Everything you said applies to me, but I can assure you that my decision was not one that was “courageous.” It’s self preservation.

    • Franklin@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      I get you’re trolling but it’s not funny anymore. It was barely funny in 2016 but with looming environmental collapse and the rise of a fascism. Just read the room, please.

    • DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      I wish there was a way to down-vote this comment so much that your global internet privileges are revoked. Describe any one of Trump’s executive orders that instills hope in anyone?

      • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
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        13 hours ago

        The only good thing may be the lift on psychedelics that RFK announced, but that’s not worth the rest of the shit the Trump administration wants to do

    • No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      My brother in Christ, the UK is already addicted to Middle East and Russian money, they don’t need drug trafficking money like Venezuela to ruin their political system.