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?

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Would your parents also be willing to move with you? NYC might (emphasis on might) work if you all move together and can all chip in for rent. And if you can get into public housing, which admittedly isn't the easiest thing in the world, it could actually work out great. I think its the only way I've been able to live in the city for much of my life as we've been in public housing for a long time.

    I've looked into moving out on my own as my income has increased over the years, but rent increases feel like they far outstrip whatever gains I've made. If you plan on moving by yourself it wouldn't be viable unless you want to live with roommates. Its not for me personally.