I’m asking because climate change is fucking my shit up, has made my hometown a ticking time bomb, and everything in Puerto Rico is just so fucking depressing. I can’t take living here any more. Sure, I don’t feel lonely living with my parents but this near yearly post traumatic stressor of hurricane season, combined with the brutal austerity measures enacted by the Junta de shit eaters (aka the great Satan) has made living here a burden as we are victim to the worst capitalism has to offer.

I can’t do the whole ‘stay to fight the great satan’ thing anymore. Nobody actually cares anymore about the privatization, the strangling of the public and education sectors. All the cool young proles have left the fucking island and all that remains are rich failsons and libs. There is no commitment to any cause, if people were actually committed to independence we’d have more Albizu Campos and Bhagat Singhs. I can’t do shit anyways because I’m an immigrant despite growing up here.

I think I’m ready to move to the States on a permanent basis and I might have flexibility choosing where i want to go. I don’t mean to give up but my personal life has taken a toll here as friends keep on leaving and thE diversity and amount of people I meet is so low.

about myself: i am nb, I am dark skinned, i don’t like racists and bigots be they chuds or libs. What’s a place I can go to where i can thrive in my personal life and as a leftist?

  • Jadzia_Dax [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    All of the US is racist, but big cities in the north and the coasts are marginally less so. As a nonbinary person, you'll want to stick to larger metropolitan cities and states with trans friendly laws like California and Washington.

    If you're concerned about climate change, the area around the great lakes is supposed to remain stable.

    If you can get to Spain instead, that might be better. I think I remember something about there being a program where the Spanish government gave citizenship to Puerto Ricans, but I'm not positive.

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      The exception to the City = Slightly Less Racism rule is Boston

      I've been up in New England for nigh on a decade and Boston is worse than Milwaukee, Chicago and Madison (the three cities where I have actually had any residence)

      You get it from both angles, Lib and Chuds and the Boston libs are the libbiest libs that ever libbed just as the Chuds are the chuddiest Chuds that ever chudded

      • pooh [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Gonna shamelessly repeat a joke someone on here told me not too long ago:

        How do you get a Bostonian to say a hard R? Tell them a black family just moved in down the street.

    • Lussy [any, hy/hym]
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      2 years ago

      If you can get to Spain instead, that might be better. I think I remember something about there being a program where the Spanish government gave citizenship to Puerto Ricans, but I’m not positive.

      I know. could call the embassy and find out whtether or not it applies to me but Spain seems awfully fashy no adays....