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?
West Coast is pretty diverse and queer-friendly, at least in the big cities.
Pacific North West (Washington, Oregon) and NorCal (Northern California) are very green and have good public transportation. It rains a bit. Major cities are Seattle, Portland and San Francisco. Hilly.
SoCal (Southern California) has mild year-round weather near Los Angeles but it’s a desert. No good public transport either. You can look into San Diego, Orange County etc too.
Pretty much all of these cities are expensive but you can find cheap places if you look.
Be wary of punishing heat waves, apocalyptic fires, ecological collapse of ocean ecosystems, and Nazis.
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In fairness to the West Coast the Nazi thing applies to most parts of America, which has a rich tradition of regional Nazi variations.
Oregon, though. Oregon has a lot of Nazis.
I moved to Oregon a couple of years ago, fucking hated it. I don't know which pissed me off more, the libs in Portland that have a very open disdain for the homeless, or the chuds that occupy everywhere outside of Portland.
I did finally meet the largest group of organized leftists I'd ever seen, but I was living alone and missed my friends and family I had to get out of there.
Eureka/Arcata is still a hidden gem, somehow. I guess the isolation keeps people away.
O.O I’ll look into that.
Yeah just ignore Crescent City. I've never seen more Confederate flags in one area and I currently reside in the South.
Crescent City is 1.5 hours away from Humboldt Bay. I don't think there's anywhere in the US that's NOT within 1.5 hours of a racist enclave.
Is it really? Shit seemed so much closer.