ANXIETY ATTACK: EXPATRIATION THOUGHTS RUN THROUGH BRAIN AGAIN

I know there will be many sincere DUers who will say stay and fight.

But please allow me a little room here, feeling cramped, walls closing in, seeing frist bug-eyed face
like a nightmare.

Where can one go and live sanely?????????

Especially if war breaks out. It's good to have friends and family nearby, but I've heard of people defecting from Soviet Russia leaving everything behind because they got so desperate or so scared.

...and are DOING something about it. :)

The british empire, now called the commonwealth, has many
english speaking countries that are culturally common enough to transition
as a first generation immigrant. Australia, Canada and New Zealand stand
out especially, and the primary issue is making sure your economics can
transport and stand up... like bringing your own business with you, or having
a trade skill like plumbing /electrics... or nursing healthcare, doctor,
teacher, so many professions are international. Arts, writing even, britain
publishes many more books per year than the US does. The US has nothing that
is unique technologically. Cars are everywhere, mobile telephony is everywhere,
supermarkets are in every country, computers, universities, sex, long life and
love are everywhere.

The illusion that culture stops at the border is a mind-control propaganda image
sold across US media, the greatest nation on earth, blab blah.. (otherwise the prison
state would be intolerable) It is a very nice nation if you're rich.
It sucks really bad if you're poor or non-white, and most black people
could do better, and frankly, by refugee laws, black people should be able
to apply for refugee status from systemic racism in the US prison/police system...
heck, most poor people, for that matter, but you can't seek
asylum for being poor, but for police states that put races in jail inordinately,
and shoot them summarily in police accidents, a person in a fair trial
would win political asylum in a european country for having their human rights
violated in the US underclasses.

The US really is pioneering the new degenerate poverty, for all the talk of wealth,
and not just physical poverty, but poverty of spirit, hollow empty clanging, stapled
on top of war crimes and human malfesiance.

Rudyard Kipling
If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!