Escape from America

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A bus ticket from Oklahoma City to Connecticut is under $150.

Moving to Slab City ,Calfornia.. low cost of living, they even have there own Utube.....best be a rough type character...

i think going to any foreign country is fine as long as you can relate to the culture and dont stick out too much.

It also helps to be able to eat cheaply available food.

Lots of well off Americans move to Hawaii and discover that the familiar food they like to eat is very expensive.
They don't realize that a box of cereal is expensive in Hawaii. Locals eat stuff like SPAM.

A lot of them don't last more than two or three years before moving back to the mainland or CONUS.

Something to consider if you are picky about food.

Donald Trump is now is the process of destroying our economy with his idiotic trade wars while also gutting healthcare and education. He wants to withdraw from the World Health Organization and gut the CDC. It will not be long before disease is rampant while we all starve.

But even before Trump:

Healthcare was already increasingly unaffordable while being low quality compared to other developed nations. Our food was already toxic. Cost of living was already soaring while wages remained stagnant. Politics are insane. Obsessive gun culture was rampant and mass shooting had long become an expected norm of daily life. Racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and ableism were already rampant. We were already knee deep in a loneliness epidemic. And Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, the supposed "good guys", were full blown supporting the genocide of Palestinians. The party and candidate we were being told we were supposed to vote for because it was the lesser evil was actively participating in a genocide. Let that sink in.

In 2022, I visited Poland for 3 weeks. People were visibly healthier. Cities were walkable with reliable public transportation across the entire country. People were friendly and welcoming. I felt physically and mentally healthier than I have in at least a decade.

And then when I returned to the US, my depression got so bad that I had to be checked into a psych ward.

I'm sure Europe has many troubles. But it was still so much better than here. It just felt like a healthier society.

My family are all expats living abroad, and I grew up as an expat. That is why leaving the country is what makes sense for my situation. I have no family support here. But at the same time, my family and I do not see eye-to-eye because of their dogmatic devotion to Islam. They are extremely homophobic, among other problems, and attempting to reason with them is maddening. Not long ago, I got in an argument with my sister, in which she insisted I need to respect her and her country's "right" to execute people who do not believe in her religion.

I don't know.

There are Christians that have similar attitudes; we call them Christian Nationalists.

IMHO, I think it has to do with how dominant religion is in a culture. I don't think most Americans understand what it is like to grow up in a culture completely dominated by a single religion: every person and every institute of society reinforces the same religious message. Your family, your neighbors, your friends, your boss and co-workers, your school and teachers, and every rando you cross paths with; all reinforcing a singular dogmatic message. Other worldviews do not exist; you are never exposed to any alternative thought. In the US, the simple existence of people that do not share your religious beliefs completely changes everything about how people perceive religion.