Sometimes I think about how being an immigrant anywhere is about hedging your future against some unknowable future.
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@skinnylatte thanks for this. As an immigrant and naturalized citizen of the US, this all rings very true
It’s also heartbreaking and horrifying that I and my family will likely become immigrants again (and refugees. AGAIN) depending on the outcomes of the next US election cycle.
That’s not hyperbole. Local candidates of one of the two main parties have specifically said that they want to round up and execute people like me. National ones are saying & doing equally vile things
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@knbrindle yep. What’s happening to trans people is awful.
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@skinnylatte in fact I do! Israel doesn’t seem like the greatest option at the moment, though…
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@skinnylatte Agreed. I'm thinking mostly about healthcare. Universal healthcare would definitely be better than our broken system. At least our migrating brothers and sisters could get that in places like Canada, UK, etc. But I know proximity is a factor too.
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@skinnylatte @Ponygirl not just that, but the healthcare on offer is generally not available to immigrants easily, unless they’re coming with money already.
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@ShiitakeToast @skinnylatte Anecdotally, my nephew required emergency room treatment in France and the charges we're equivalent to $10 or so. This was in the early 2000s. It may have changed since then but could you imagine such affordable healthcare? I literally get glassy eyed and sigh at the thought
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@Ponygirl @skinnylatte my daughter twisted her ankle on a trip France a few years ago. The bill for the hospital was supposed to be €50, but they didn’t actually have any means of contemporaneously generating a bill or accepting payment, and couldn’t send the bill to our US address. ️
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@ShiitakeToast @Ponygirl my wife gets MYR 1 (US$0.30) emergency room treatments