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>Chorafa said if the Yes vote won, she would be so disappointed she would think about leaving Greece with her two small children and moving abroad.

That reminds me of the spate of Americanslwho, upon the Supreme Court striking down gay marriage bans, said they were moving to Canada. I feel like some sentiment is wildly out of whack here

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Uh, no - this is a completely different situation. Whereas gay marriage has little to no effect on most Americans' lives, the results of this vote will affect each and every Greek citizen for years (decades?) to come.

Moving abroad (assuming that option is available to you) might simply be the rational thing to do in such a case.

True I should have been more specific about what I saw as the connection. This woman, and I presume many other people, seem to want credit for giving up. I'm not really speaking as to the rationality of the sentiment, just noting that giving up doesn't impress me much.

The original commenter already responded to this post, but I'm pretty sure he was making fun of the fact that someone was pissed about the United States allowing gay marriages, and so the solution for them was somehow moving to Canada -where they've allowed gay marriages for much longer.

Basically, I don't like what they're doing here so I'm gonna move to someplace where they're doing it worse (a little backasswards in thinking, maybe even ignorance). This woman would likely move to elsewhere in the Eurozone, or another country with similar banking/economics strategies.

In the case of gay Marriage, there were very few consequences for anyone, beyond gay men and women being able to get married.

In contrast, the outcome of this referendum will have significant effects on the lives of ordinary Greeks for many years to come.

This is not the same at all. Greece has seen several years of economic depression on the order of America's experience during the Great Depression. Many people are leaving already to find work. A Greek threat to emigrate is not empty.

Equally ridiculous when you consider that gay marriage was legalized in Canada by the Civil Marriage Act of 2005.

I guess they can join the ones who said the same thing when George W. Bush was re-elected.

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