Re:The Putin Exodus: The New Russian Brain Drain
by 4thaccount on Saturday March 30, 2019 @10:09PM
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I've often thought this as well as we basically are just making marginal advancements at this point in things like computing power (hey, let's shrink this some more or add more cores). The nuclear power industry is a sinking ship (wind, solar, and storage won't be enough), and we lose more freedoms every year.
However...where else would you go? A Nordic country? Switzerland? I think you would want some place high on the freedom list that has a good economy and also a strong enough military to not have to worry about getting steamrolled. I don't think there are too many that meet that list.
Re:The Putin Exodus: The New Russian Brain Drain
by scottlocklin on Sunday March 31, 2019 @10:56AM
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If you're serious about leaving, you have to war game it out in your head for what your personal future looks like in the US versus somewhere else; depends on what you do for money, what your net worth is, what kind of freedoms are important to you, whether or not you have a family to worry about and so on. What's the worst thing that could happen in country X,Y,Z; what is the median outcome, etc. It's a simple calculation for me and lots of places work.
Switzerland is hard to beat as far as long term stability goes, but one of the reasons it is hard to beat is they don't just let anybody in.
Re:The Putin Exodus: The New Russian Brain Drain
by 4thaccount on Sunday March 31, 2019 @02:20PM
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Yea, I've thought about living in another country before for various reasons including adventure, but once you start a family a lot of stuff gets complicated fast.
Yea...a little weird as an American citizen, I have trouble comprehending places which basically don't ever let you become a citizen.
Many advances in healthcare? Name one! The US population's average lifespan is declining; something that has never happened before. Yay muh "health care" and alleged medical advancements. Hollywood is garbage, and I don't watch it, basically, at all. Your civilization is declining, physically, culturally, even technologically. The last interesting technological thing the US did was search engines, and that happened in the 20th century.
Anyway, you can console yourself with the fact that I'm leaving! And every time I interact with people like you, or your ideological opposite, I'm more determined to GTFO the sinking ship while I still can.