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I left the US for the UK well before Trump 1 and am still here. I can confidently assure you that you have no idea what you're talking about.

While it's far from perfect (nowhere is), our quality of life here is far better, and interactions with the authorities and law enforcement are far less brutal than they were in the US. And people here are friendlier. But then, I'm not living in London, which is crawling with driven, greedy assholes.

The problem with getting your info from headlines is that you don't know which sources are serving an agenda rather than reporting actual news. One thing that is wrong with the UK is that its media is just as fucked as that in the US. With the exception of a few publications (the wishy-washy LibDem Guardian, the conservative contrarian Private Eye), it's all billionaire's bullshit. And 90% of podcasters are semiliterate knobheads who just make shit up.

Having said all that, it does rain a lot, and despite massive gains over the past few decades, the food still could do with further improvement. But when I return to the US for visits, even in progressive bubbles where my friends and family live, I'm always glad to come back here. Especially when the Greens just decisibely defeated Farage in a by-election and made Starmer look like the wanker that he is.

The ones who can afford to move are the ones that statistically be more likely to speak more than one language. Learning German myself to add to my pile.

Or gets the ones who do speak at least one foreign language, which aren't going to be the close-minded kind that thinks everything that matters starts and stops with America, so that's also good.

This is actually pretty funny. "Who speaks my language and where can i go?"

They speak English in populist shit hole?

I can tell you, Americans who immigrate to Canada bring the stupid with them. It's like, "nice country, glad I moved here, how can we fuck it up like the USA?"

I mean, you don't just get shot on the street legally, and we don't have ICE (yet), and not everything is a complete scam... But maybe in 20 years we'll be there. Hopefully the UK takes a different route, and I doubt the "infrastructure" is there to go full "legal slavery and for profit prisons" British MAGA to begin with.

I believe it's spelled "innit"

Plus they're only half a step behind on the bigotry, surveillance, and fascism anyway.

Having lived in Britain during the time of the Referendum and seen all of that shitshow first hand, I would say that Brexit is the product of British Politics having been taken over by the local version of MAGA (so, less loud and obnoxious, more posh sleaze).

This was to the point that they even had a Trump lookalike called Boris Johnson.

It's somewhat telling that you comment implies that everyone else has an accent and you don't :)

Having lived there, I agree that Britain is the most Fascist nation in Europe after Belarous and Russia, though theirs is the Posh Aristocratic version, so it's not as loud and obvious as "strongman" Fascism.

Especially when Ireland is right there!

We haven't gone anywhere near being Trump land yet. And the Trump party (Reform) just got wrecked in an election yesterday.

Because most Americans can only speak English. And Australia is really far away.

I gave up my career and started over in something entirely different at a paltry salary, but I got out.

I totally understand your decision, but historically emigration is FILLED with stories of even professionals like doctors and engineers needing to accept very low paid wage work and re-credentialing in exchange for a longer term reset in a better country.

Again, I absolutely get it - but that's not the same thing as "no choice".

Trust me the Americans leaving the country are not the Trumpers. Now is the time to steal the brain drain for yourself.