Living inside the US isn’t fucking awful, it’s political culture has become increasingly inane and annoying… social life is very isolated.
The material wealth earned here is much more than anything my dad could’ve gotten back home in his rancho. But back there, there’s actual community. You go down the street and see people and you say hi to them and have a convo. There’s walkable town centers where sometimes bailes take place. (Granted small towns are insular asf but still)
Here in the US you go to work, put in your 8/10/12+ hours and you go back home. You know your neighbors less than even your coworkers. There’s no social binder to bring people together. There’s even less material wealth to go around the more the US slides into the cool zone.
I know it makes my parents feel bad when I talk bad about this country though, as if I don’t like this gift I’ve been given. I try to keep a lid on it, for the most part.
You know your neighbors less than even your coworkers. There’s no social binder to bring people together.
It sucks. When I started working here in the US, I met my first 3 IRL libertarians at work: straight-up 'copy paste most of the tropes' personalities. And where I rent, no-one outside, unbelievable.
I know it makes my parents feel bad when I talk bad about this country though
That happens a lot between my parents and me as well, I jokingly tell them every year that 'this year it finally tumbles down'... I know how much they suffered and what they sacrificed to get here.
The material wealth earned here is much more than anything my dad could’ve gotten back home in his rancho. But back there, there’s actual community. You go down the street and see people and you say hi to them and have a convo. There’s walkable town centers where sometimes bailes take place. (Granted small towns are insular asf but still)
Here in the US you go to work, put in your 8/10/12+ hours and you go back home. You know your neighbors less than even your coworkers. There’s no social binder to bring people together. There’s even less material wealth to go around the more the US slides into the cool zone.
I know it makes my parents feel bad when I talk bad about this country though, as if I don’t like this gift I’ve been given. I try to keep a lid on it, for the most part.
It sucks. When I started working here in the US, I met my first 3 IRL libertarians at work: straight-up 'copy paste most of the tropes' personalities. And where I rent, no-one outside, unbelievable.
That happens a lot between my parents and me as well, I jokingly tell them every year that 'this year it finally tumbles down'... I know how much they suffered and what they sacrificed to get here.