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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do think about it often. It's logistically challenging and my DH is not on board (though he gets closer every year, I think).

[b]There are just a lot of things about American culture that will never change and such a negative for my well being. I know other countries have cultural issues that I wouldn't like either, I just find those issues less alarming than some of the American issues [/b](mostly gun culture and individualism/capitalism taking to what I believe to be an unhealthy extreme).

I also sometimes think I've been American for too long to make it work somewhere else. Like I should have emigrated in my 20s but now I'm in my 40s and even when I dont' like it, I embody an American ethos that won't work elsewhere.

I don't know. Sometimes it sucks here. Some things are great, better than anywhere else. Some thing are not.[/quote]

There are and people constantly bring this up, but having spent years abroad in Europe and Latin America i find I take those things less...personally? There is a disconnect mentally that whatever that dysfunction looks like it isn't really mine as a foreigner, I don't own it in the same way as American issues. Anyway,  I wish DH would get on board because I am definitely due for some time out.[/quote]

PP here and yes, I can see that. But even sometimes I can't detach from it and I still think the trade off would be worth it. Like I've spent a lot of time in Sweden and Denmark for work and there are definitely aspects of those cultures that would be tough. People can be closed off and hard to make friends with (nowhere near as friendly as Americans), there is some surprising racism, there are a bunch of seemingly small cultural conventions it would be really hard to adapt to. But... what if I could raise my kids in a place with few guns, where there is massive investment in public transit and education is much more freely available? I think I could suck it up and deal with the stuff I don't like, honestly.

Of course, part of it is whether it would even be possible for us to immigrate there. But I do think I'd be willing to make the tradeoff even understanding a lot of the downsides.[/quote]

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