Im too depressed to leave. Like just the fact a human being would prefer only high skill humans just is the most human comment ever in this thread.
Not “itd be cool to get the nicest people”. But just saying we prefer skills and screw the others. I really dont have faith in humanity anymore.
It's the people you can least afford to lose and hardest to replace who tend to go first.
I left. No regrets, just a lot of grief. As a trans immigrant, the US does not and has never represented me.
Fun fact, I still have to pay US taxes but I can't renew my US passport. What's that about taxation without representation?
Why can't you renew your passport? As a fellow expat I do it whenever it expires at the local embassy.
I'm trans.
They won't let you renew your passport because your trans?
They've been holding them up in bureaucratic limbo, and at best you get a passport that misrepresents and endangers you anywhere you go. They refuse to process passports if they don't believe your marker matches your ASAB, but then also say they aren't processing gender marker changes.
At least, I've heard/seen enough reports that I'm not going to try it. Also, with the effort it took to change that info in the first place, I'd rather have a correct but expired passport than a wrong one
Motherfuckers.
If you have dual citizenship why not renounce your US citizenship and stop paying US taxes? If you don’t live in the US and you can’t get a passport, there’s not much advantage to having citizenship.
Oh I've considered it, and they just made it cheaper!
What happens if you just don't pay?
Nothing, if you never go back to the US.
I have no idea what happens if you don't but, next administration might be competent. I wouldn't wanna find out under people who actually know what they're doing.
On one hand - great news. Fewer workers and potential conscripts for the US empire.
On the other hand - I don't think anyone wants even a single American more in their own country.
Side note - how on earth are other countries still respecting US driver's licenses?
I'll take American doctors and high skill professionals. They're always welcome here in Canada
Plus the people leaving are going to be heavily heavily biased against Trump I think. Why would a MAGA cult member abandon their great nation? It's not even finished becoming great again? Are they that tired of winning?
This right here. The smartest people I know are "leftists". The "right" is filled with majority regressive thinkers and the uber rich brainwashing those idiots into hatred.
A significant percentage of Americans have always been plenty hateful, no brainwashing necessary.
Expatsi sounds like a company that would use you as a drug mule.
I Left a long time ago (for the second time) and will never go back. My kids got a far better education, my income prospects greatly improved, and life here is just ...easier. Mind you I left from NYC which is everything except easy. Still love NYC but will not go back to visit under these circumstances.
My wife and I fought actively for change on the local level. It changed nothing.
Where did you go?
NL. I've stated it here and other places before and my Bsky profile is mostly shots of my city. I am trivially easy to dox.
But, I have friends, so don't do that please.
Stay and fix your shit you fuckers
Be good if they put as much effort into that and voting as they do whining about it and downvoting us ay
This is exactly the sentiment of Republicans here when migrants come to the US to seek a better life.
Congrats on not being better than them, but just being somewhere else.
They’re seeking a better life because they have no choice.
Americans are seeking escape from a vote result that some didn’t even participate in.
migrants come to the US to seek a better life.
Really depends on what part of the US they settle into. Some places are highly welcoming of immigrants, but some others are pretty much sundown towns.
Yes please. No more American's in my country complaing to me, a local, about immigrants. I can't fucking do it anymore.
Especially the ones who have the privilege of even having the option of leaving
to be honest the guy I talked to was homeless.
is it irony that the regime bending over backward for privileged people is most of all driving out privileged people
Not quite - the regime is bending over backwards for people it feels it can control. They don't care about the privileged people leaving, just that there are enough bodies left to fight wars & work.
I've considered leaving, but I'd need a good work from home job to do it
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