How often have you heard a friend say they must flee America to save their sanity? I hear it about once a week, and so does this user.
“If you are genuinely unhappy and suffering from mental issues, leaving America will not fix you. For most people, you’ll just be farther away from your support structures like family and friends and long-term physicians,” they write.
Much more on that at this link: Americans Who Traveled the World Spill 11 Surprising Ways That Changed Their Perception of America (msn.com)
And the reverse – why people immigrate to the U.S.
11 Biggest Reasons Why Immigrants Chose To Call America Their New Home » Savoteur
Recently I noticed U.S. media stories that are basically “Someone finds something awful about America and moves to another country where everything is idyllic”. Except when I dig into the stories, at best, the truth has been misrepresented. Most commonly, the person featured in the story is either a dual citizen or has a right-of-ancestry immigration privilege that most do not have, or, they did not, in fact, move full time – and commute back and forth between the U.S. and their destination country.
CNN runs these stories in their Travel section as a weekly meme. I have collected a few of these stories here: The media myth that Americans can just move abroad for a better life – Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking