Anonymous wrote: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).
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 (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.
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.