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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by christophilus on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:50AM (#18166921)
> politics is moving in quite a right-wing/anti-immigrant direction

Seems to be a global phenomenon. Is there a place where this isn't happening?

Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by JMCQ87 on Monday October 08, 2018 @09:36AM (#18167247)
Canada and New Zealand, possibly.
Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by jpgvm on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:00AM (#18167482)
Unfortunately Australia isn't in that list. :(

Our politics don't represent us as a nation, if you are from somewhere else come spend some time in our coastal cities and you will be accepted as one of us.

Only the indigenous are Australian by heritage, the rest of us are immigrants too even if some people would object to that classification through their ignorance.

Being an immigrant doesn't make you less of an Australian, we are a country of immigrants and I hope one day our politics reflect that.

Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by danieltillett on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:32AM (#18167781)
I object to being called an immigrant. I don't have any known relatives outside of Australia and I consider myself only Australian.

Everybody in the world ancestors came from somewhere else at some point in time (even the indigenous Australians). Does 10 generations of ancestors living in one country make you less of a citizen than 200?