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RE: In theory ya can always move.

Posted by RGA on July 17, 2021 at 18:14:54:
It is easy to travel when you are single and have a job that is transferable.

It was easy for me to move from Canada to Hong Kong as I had no wife or kids and moving from a town of like 4,000 people to a metropolis of 7.5 million and for far greater pay for the same job - it was practically a no brainer. It also helped that as a kid we moved around a lot having spent each grade in a new school.

But if I had a wife and kid(s) then I would not choose to live here in HK.

One thing to note though - all the major cities vote liberal. People who live in cities tend to be more educated and more worldly and ultimately less fearful and fear leads to racism. In cities, people work with brown people, get to know them, and are then less fearful and see through the news making them out to be the bogeyman. The fear networks are powerful but the majority of city-dwellers have more exposure to different kinds of people.

Of course, at a state level, you are still under the control of crazy racists like Abbot and Cruz who represent the overall majority of "people" who live there.

Moving abroad isn't so easy - Many countries require a certain amount of money in your savings account or a degree in a field that country requires. The advice I give to my students here is that Hong Kong can not stand up to China - they have the tanks. You can't free Hong Kong. It was never free even under the British. So you have to free yourselves. And that is through wealth and/or education. If you are rich you can move anywhere in the world - countries like taking in people with money. If you have money your passport is gold. Otherwise, you need a degree in a field that other countries need such as engineering, IT, medicine, science. The softer fields like home care. Filipinas will get work in Canada with a certificate in home-care because most people don't want a job cleaning up after the elderly or the sick.

As an American - I think Canada is your best bet because it's not that far away - you can always drive over the border and visit your family so in terms of proximity you are nearby. Furthermore, culturally it is similar. Similar music and movies and TV etc. Same sports are popular. Other than free healthcare and the metric system (and Canadians know both) you really don't have much of a stretch. Some provinces see a large amount of Americans applying for work.

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