It’s always a grift.

More likely to be economic collapse at this point.

He was a socialist. Because a capitalist could never be kind.

It’s so bizarre seeing people capitulate to toddler tantrums. We’re all being held hostage by an ipad kid.

This specific child was being neglected at home. He clearly felt that school was the only place he could exert control without being hit for it.

It’s crazy that I’m kinda hoping for a civil war, at this point. I don’t see any way out of this that isn’t an armed conflict.

I didn’t come here until I was a teen and I was deposited into a state that is pretty hostile to everything that I am. My wife came to the US when she was 17 and its been a struggle for her since day 1.

I am so beyond exhausted.

We’ve been in a cold civil war for years now. It’s just getting hotter and hotter.

I’ve been to marches that were literally planned by children afraid of their futures and boomer men showed up with guns to scare them.

I seriously cannot picture this happening. More of Trump’s dementia addled Twitter rambling. Even the puppets pulling his strings wouldn’t want this.

I mean, crazier shit has happened, but I see the US going full Handmaid’s Tale long before I see them invading a self-governed nation full of almost exclusively white people.

My money would be on Russia making that play before the US.

Just took a look at Costa Rica’s residency requirements:

• Pensionado (Retiree): $1,000+/month pension.
• Rentista (Fixed Income): $2,500+/month from investments/business.
• Investor: $150,000+ investment in real estate, stocks, etc.
• Nómada Digital (Digital Nomad): $3,000+/month income from foreign sources.

Sigh…

I do think “digital nomad” options are fairly new for a number of countries and that may be my best bet. My field doesn’t really have virtual jobs, but my wife’s does.

That has been what I’ve found. Over 35, no degree, no savings? lol get fucked.

Best I’ve been able to find is Uruguay, but languages have always been really hard for me.

Absolutely not. I know multiple teachers and I’ve never once seen a parent held accountable for their child’s behavior.

“Worst” a school can do is suspend them and the parents bitch about that and threaten to sue.

Used to work in a hospital. I’ve been on foley watch for a sex offender who kept trying to get the female nurses to touch his dick. Fuck that job.

Wife used to be a teacher. Key word USED to.

Had a student who regularly threatened to kill her and destroyed her classroom at least twice a week. She would have to clear all the students into the hall while he went on a rampage in there.

The AP would just come down and give him video games to “calm him down”. Guess who learned to freak out for rewards?

The wild thing is the American southwest. California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas . . . all of that was literally Mexico.

People drew imaginary lines and said “You’re an American citizen if you’re born here, but not if you’re born there”. When it’s the same goddamned people.

We call Dine people in El Paso Navajo Native Americans. We call the exact same ethnic group 20 miles south in Cuidad Mexican foreigners.

I think this misses how horrifically expensive this avenue would be. I’m not trying to dismiss that this is a viable avenue for some people, but those people have more financial, social, physical, and mental capital than the majority of trans persons.

When you are given a route to asylum, you have protections and can apply for assistance. You can’t do that as a tourist.

So many of us live paycheck to paycheck and, if we sold everything that won’t fit in a suitcase, we could barely afford the plane ticket.

We have to make day-by-day analyses and weigh the options. Right now, I’m choosing a semi-stable roof over my head and saving every penny I can manage. My only alternative at this point is to choose homelessness in a foreign country, hoping that I don’t get deported back here with no means to rebuild what I’ve lost.

Being homeless and marginalized in the US is not a viable option. I’ve literally done that before.

I have disabilities, too. Being trans, older, disabled, and poor is shit. It sucks being seen as the “undesirables” globally.

I don’t have issues with California when compared directly to other states. I don’t consider any to be “better”. Maybe Hawaii, since it’s off the continent.

Maybe you misinterpreted my comment? Out of every state in the US, I’d prefer to get to Hawaii or California. I can’t afford either. BUT, given the option, I’d rather leave this whole country.

I wish I could afford to flee to California. It’s night and day from this shithole state I’m stuck in.

I’d still prefer to be out of the US entirely.

I wish I could flee this shitheel country. Issue is that there’s currently nowhere progressive that accepts the US as a valid country to flee from.

And don’t get me started on being a female duck.