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Right, a certain level of defence spending is certainly more important than PBS. (That level being enough for, you know, actual defence.) But the US is far, far, far above that level and anyone who claims otherwise is extremely paranoid.
I would agree with that.
Of course, paranoia is common in politics nowadays. See the whole birther debacle.
Paranoia is not necessarily unwarranted in politics nowadays either. See most of what the DHS has done over the last decade.
Acronyms, my archnemesis.
Department of Homeland Security.
Ah.
Department of wHo really needs due procesS.
Mexico is currently having one of its usual drug war flareups, has been for a couple years. Canada is harder to get into, but if you have a university degree and you're white (yeah, it isn't official, but there's a Harper government in power, so don't expect immigration to be easy if you're not reasonably wealthy or the world's luckiest skin colour), you should be able to get a work visa that you can trade up on after a couple of years into proper citizenship.
That was not me being serious. Sorry for not being clear. :x
I will keep that in mind, though.
Though if I ever did need to flee the country, I'd probably end up in The Netherlands, or less likely, Japan. I have relatives in abundance in the former and a small handful in the latter.
Japan has never seemed like a very good place to live to me.
I wouldn't want to live there, either. I'd much prefer Europe, though either would be pretty different than living in the U-S of A.
I also don't know the couple members of my family who live there that well.
Japan is one of those places I'd like to visit someday, but I don't think I'd be able to live there for any length of time. Same as a good chunk of Europe. Too many things would just creep me out in the long term.
If I ever moved away, it'd probably be Canada.
I could probably live in Canada. It would be nice to get away from Alabama summers.
I would live in Australia, 'coz we have actually decent weather most of the time.
you're supposed to move away
it doesn't work if you're still in the country you live
Australia is also made entirely of death.
I'm travel-phobic, leaving AZ, let alone the US would be tough for me.
But that would necessitate moving to a worse country.
I'd just go to Austria and live on a mountain or something, I dunno. Somewhere that has the right combination of stupid-endearing and livable. Alternatively, Swizterland, but that's more expensive and even Germans think the Swiss speak funny. France is out of the equation, because I have a restraining order against mimes. The UK is basically like the USA or Australia with better accents, so there's really no point going there. Spain is made too much of hot summers, as is Italy and Italy's not much my speed in any case.
Could do Poland, but I've been put off vodka. The Czech Republic has a church made of human bones, but I'm not Christian any longer. Apparently Serbia is a boozer's paradise and the women there are very appreciative of Australian visitors, but the political situation there is volatile enough that even my libido's having second thoughts.
Yep, looks like Austria's the way to go around that region.
Oh, I forgot the UK existed.
If I had to escape, I might go to the UK for the sheer novelty of seeing them trying to understand what I say.
If I were going to move to another country...maybe Sweden? Allegedly one of the best standards of living, and it's my background. On the other hand I hear getting a citizenship is hella hard.
I dunno, Canada is mostly okay.
I feel like contributing but come on, I already did move~
/Braggart
And now you have to move to a country with less maple syrup.
What city did you move to, by the way?
Toronto.
Aw. I wouldn't have moved there even if the job position had been open.
(There was a job position open a couple months back, for a library manager in the local university's Ontario branch. If I'd known about it, I could have applied and possibly move to Ontario, although I didn't find out about it until after the fact.)
....Juan moved to Canada?
A lot of things have happened since February.
Wait, Juan, are you actually permanently residing there now?
Also, one of my friends wants to bring us with him on a two-week or month-long trip to Japan. I'd really like to go, needless to say.
If things get too bad here, my first choice is France. The things that are fucked up about it are fucked-up things I can live with, unlike the worst faults of my beloved Japan. Or I suppose I could go to Sweden - I hear it's like Platinum Membership!Canada.
Oh.
Still.