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?
Denver is fairly diverse, even though Colorado is like 80% white. Of course the most diverse parts are also the most heavily policed. Rent and food are pretty expensive, but not as bad as LA or NYC. There's some public transit but it's not that great. There's local chapters of DSA, PSL, CPUSA, Food Not Bombs, etc., and some of them do good work. The local music scene is pretty good, although covid killed some of the smaller venues.
I'm a straight cis white guy so I'm not fully aware of the levels of bigotry, but it seems to be on par with the average American city, maybe slightly less (unless you're dealing with cops).
I have family in the Great Lakes region and I might end up moving there when climate change turns Colorado into a full-on desert.