There's the escapism angle but also like, I'd rather spend my life and labor contributing to a decent country that isn't the US. The shit we have to do for money, much of which, to some degree, feeds the imperialist machine no matter how far removed from the killing parts of it.

Like even teaching children, in and of itself an admirable and useful profession-- in the US they're gonna grow up to be soldiers or war machine engineers, or be people who serve soldiers or war machine engineers, or the people who serve the people who serve etc etc etc. The entire fucking economy surrounds a death and extraction machine. There's no guarantee that making a microcosm better or more efficient isn't just making the macrocosm better or more efficient. Spending my life on a fascist tank trying to flip its hubcap socialist.

It's a moot point because I can't afford to move anywhere lol. And also pretty reductive and undialectical. But that's the vibe that would push me towards leaving if it were a real possibility.