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?
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Minneapolis is bad for on the racism index but good on the queer acceptance index. CoL is... idk, moderate? Not as bad as some places, certainly. It's a smaller city but it does have a music scene, some anarchists, some punks. It's very hard to make friends with white Minnesotans. They're just not friendly people. There's a joke that goes something like "They've been my best friend for 13 years and I've never been in their house" but it's not a joke. You'll never get invited to dinner by white Minnesotans. You'll never meet their families. You'll never meet their other friend. You might, if you're lucky, get introduced to their spouse.
Another joke is (White) Minnesotans will give you directions to anywhere except their house.
Yet another is "How do you make friends with a (White) Minnesotan? That's easy! Go to kindergarten with them!" These are jokes that aren't funny because they accurately reflect how white Minnesotans behave. It took me 18 years to learn this. I regret ever moving to Minnesota.
Obligatory:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/v0xi5l/will_you_be_offered_food_when_you_are_a_guest/
Now remember which parts of Europe the Minnesotans are from.
I would argue that the UP is better, especially the Keewanaw Peninsula or Marquette because the lake makes the winters less brutal.
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