Escape from America

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I'm from an ex-pat family. I've already lived abroad for a significant portion of my life. I am bilingual. My problem is that I have nothing going for me financially.

I grew up abroad. My family all still live abroad. Legal citizenship aside, I already live alone in a country and culture that are, for all intents and purposes, foreign to me.

Whatever reasons you think I can't handle living abroad already apply where I am now.

Learn a new skill that would make it worthwhile for someone to send you to another country.

Companies don't want to train people for skilled jobs. They would much rather hire someone with experience.

But let me guess: they also want somebody young?

I'm bilingual. I have a TESOL certificate. And I have a masters degree in special education. But apparently all that still isn't sufficient. So what else do you people want from me?

I don't recall you specifying that earlier, or at least not in any of the posts I've read. In that case you may be able to make it work, but from past experience, trying to move without a job and financial backing can be an issue in some areas and having anything that even remotely resembles a mental health condition often times is a disqualification in terms of getting visas. The only way to really know is to specifically look at various countries and what their policy is. I'm not really even sure why you posted any of this if that's the case as the obvious thing to do is actually look at what the various visa requirements and job openings are if you're so deadset in leaving the country.

I definitely empathize with your situation. The U.S. has always been on the evil side ethics wise and it’s frustrating to see us march towards becoming an ethnostate or a theocracy like Israel or Iran.

It’s a shame what we did to Libya at the behest of a few petrochemical companies.

However, I think part of what still brings me hope is that we still have regular elections and are capable of change. As much as I want to move to fully remote work and live in Portugal or something I still think there’s merit to trying my best here in the U.S. and doing my damndest to be the change I want to see in the country.

The population is struggling in America but there are still opportunities for positive change.

Please don’t leave the United States. You will be killed abroad. Stay here. Your skills and qualifications in special education are needed greatly. You just need to find the connection. Keep searching. I know it’s hard, but take each day at a time. Keep exploring where there is the greatest need for your gifts and talents.

When there is an aspie village/city/place created one day, you will be a beautiful asset to the community.

I've been in this country for 20 years, and I never got anything out of it. My family all live abroad; I have not seen them in over a decade and have no support. I'm all on my own and struggling. I've been chronically single for over 15 years. I barely have any friends, and the one or two I do have never have time to spend with me. I can't afford the rising cost of living or the expensive healthcare. You're pleading with me that teachers are needed in a country that is actively doing everything it can to destroy education.

I've already spent years of my life abroad, and it clearly didn't kill me.

Good luck to you then.

I hope the spirits are wrong. I don’t know you but someone cares about you very much.

You think there will be an aspie city in my lifetime? In America? Even if that is possible, we'd only be setting ourselves up for Maga and Republicans to come after us the way they're going after the LGBTQ+ community.

Look up what happened to Krakoa.

It is likely to get worse where you live in Oklahoma before it gets better.
The reason for cutting the Department of Education is to shift money from public schools to private ones.
Where you live the private ones are primarily religious Catholic schools of high quality, while the public schools in Oklahoma aren't very good by any standard.

I went to a religious school which meant 30 minutes of chapel every day and one Bible Studies class.
According to comments on Reddit it is very accepting of LGBTQ today.

And why would I, an atheist, want to teach at a religious school?

Hi Nightwing,

I have read all of this thread. We are aligned politically, and I can relate. I think if you truly want to emigrate, you will need to make a long term plan to do so, and this would entail compromising in ways you may not be willing to compromise in. It will take time and money. Nothing is impossible, but you would need to save up and break down this plan into manageable steps. The biggest compromise is that you will probably have to accept moving to a blue state, or to a country that doesn't feel a whole lot better than the US. Because you're right- you don't have a path to immediately move to a desirable country. Even if you saved up all the money you needed to go there and come back, there's no guarantee of finding a job. You could save, go to EU and try to get a job and see how far you get, with a return flight already scheduled and paid for, but you might just end up back here. You could save up to move to somewhere like Mexico, which would be a lot more accessible, but would you want to?

Honestly, your posts are giving depression, and it is depressing what's happening in this country, but for the moment, I have come to the conclusion that it is at least for now, time to protest and resist, rather than time to run. I have been making calls every week, which, considering how fun phone calls are, means that many others who don't normally make phone calls are also doing so. I would be out protesting in person if I wasn't disabled, but many others are doing so. Think about how many people there are in this country who are not white, not straight, not cis, disabled, not christian, reliant on social security and medicaid, veterans... There are more of us than there are of them. How far will this go? At what point will we see a showdown between the powers that be? I don't know, but we haven't see the last guttural dying breath of the united states just yet.

There's more than just political depression in your posts, there's the regular kind too. You don't have a support network, you're estranged from your family, your friends don't have time for you, and you are over it. I can relate to that, but you are undoubtedly awesome too. You speak Arabic, you have your head on straight, you are empathetic, you cared enough to get a degree in special education. You need people in your life who help ease the sting of the inherent suffering of existence, and you deserve to have support. I have found something akin to this with therapy and online meet ups, and I am lucky to have a couple family members I am close to.

I hope this storm passes, and if not, I hope that you can find some comfort in it.

I'd like to escape from Canada if the Liberals get in again.