I'd love to visit, maybe even stay a while. Every transphobic bill being put up for discussion makes leaving this country more and more appealing, and I've been studying Mandarin for a little bit now. There's a lot I could get over, and I wouldn't worry about making new social connections or anything.

But tbh, they don't want me. I'm just a thirtysomething queer social worker with no personal or business connections in the country. It's a very desirable "flee the pogroms" location for me, but I don't think a realistic one.

Maybe if I retrained into something STEMmy and started working for a Chinese company, but that's just as big an upheaval as the move itself would be.