disneygibson

Indeed. Any mild criticism is immediately flagged, downvoted, and deleted. I don’t care how serious the pandemic is, it doesn’t justify mass hysteria.

As I said, I don’t see this changing anytime soon. Your best bet is likely Mexico and/or a way into certain US states like Texas or Florida. Not sure if you can get a permanent residence card from abroad, but it may be something to investigate.

Of course it’s horrifying, especially since these actions are supported by a majority of the population.

There are a few countries with little or no entry restrictions. Mexico in particular is fairly close to Canada and is open. If you are able to work remotely, I’d strongly suggest looking into it. Canada is not going to change its policies anytime soon, sadly.

I’m not sure what the restrictions are, but can they actually prevent you from leaving if you are flying internationally? What about for a medical or other “official” purpose?

Edit: seriously scary that this post is flagged. Not cool.

This isn’t going to end. There is no point at which things will return to normal. If you think otherwise, I’m sorry but you simply haven’t been paying attention.

If vaccine mandates bother you, I strongly suggest moving to a rural area or to a region/country with less restrictions. Otherwise you will inevitably be forced to receive yearly boosters in order to participate in society.

Tokyo has very few trash cans yet not much litter. It’s a cultural problem, not an engineering or city planning one.

John Oliver is a biased comedian out for laughs. You should never take his “investigations” as anything more than entertainment.

About the last thing people in small towns want are arrogant city folks coming in, kicking them out, and moving them to a nightmarish megacity. It might come as a surprise to denizens of coastal cities, but no one in a small town looks at NYC or SF and thinks it’s a successful, nice place to live.

If you want to help small towns, push for more remote work. There is absolutely zero reason why millions need to be crammed in a single geographic location when we all work online anyway.

I’m honestly not sure if this post is satire.

There is much more homogenization today which goes far beyond your point.

You can think of it as a hollowing out of the middle. As people have become more individualistic, they’ve lost interest in the “middle range” of power: neighborhood, town, city, state. This power structure has collapsed almost entirely, flushing all of it to the top, centralized federal level. This is also why an urbanite in Brooklyn is more similar to one in San Francisco than to those a hundred miles north in upstate New York. Local identities have been replaced entirely by national and increasingly international ones.

Considering how the US government has spent its trillions in the last few decades, keeping money offshore might actually be an ethical move. If buying products from a company that exploits workers in X country is unethical, why are taxes used to fund wars any different?