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There's a subreddit called exactly that, r/iwantout. Turns out the grass is not actually greener on the other side, because, for many people, wherever you go, there you are, as the saying goes.

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I don't expect it to be better, it's just soul crushing to see this happen in the place I grew up. Soul destroying. It's such a let down on a whole society scale. Maybe I would be less emotionally attached to what is going on somewhere else. This all just makes me feel like vomiting.

It can be equally soul destroying once you move there too. I know it can feel hopeless currently but for most people the solution isn't to move to a new place but to actually fix the issues they're having at home, as it's often more personal than governmental, unless you're in some active warzone.

There are posts there like this that make the point better than I can: https://www.reddit.com/r/IWantOut/s/g7L2i4OKyI

Be careful, the grass is greener in other countries, but not perfect. I feel sorry if you live in the U.S.

As a fellow American said: "I don't think about you at all."

That's kind of the point... and hardly surprising, you don't think at all.

Come on now, this sort of stuff breaks the rules of this site.

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