• smeg@infosec.pub
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    1 day ago

    🙋‍♂️ I left in 2025. It’s great! Walkable and bikeable cities, affordable groceries, my health insurance actually pays for stuff, there’s public transit, the food is safer, and not absolutely every I do funnels into only 12 companies.

    I moved my family. When my kid needs higher education, it won’t cost more than our home. I can send him out in the streets without worrying he’ll be hit by a truck going 80. Active shooter or intruder drills aren’t a phenomenon in his school.

    I only wish we could have done it sooner.

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          16 hours ago

          I was watching a show called Pernille the other week, takes place in Norway, and I thought her youngest daughter was 14/15. She was 12 and walking all over the place. That freedom is just something the States doesnt have. my Son is 12, if I let him walk to the store (crossing a busy 45mph+ road) the cops could get called on me.

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            9 hours ago

            My kid is 11 and gets to bike to school, or walk to music lessons or the store whenever. It’s pretty cool

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          17 hours ago

          The promised land. I’ve lived there before, and I plan on moving back some day. It’s amazing.

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            13 hours ago

            Where they started Nunya Business, which is obscenely wealthy. However, there’s a fantastic opportunity where they need an enterprising foreigner like yourself to agree to handle a bank transfer processing fee and hold on to all their assets before the government takes it all and. . .