Like I won't say that absolutely everything about the USA was bad, necessarily, and I of course have my own biases at play here... But the point sparing the details is really just like, I've spent the past month thinking practically every day about how every single US-based communist really must be working in incredibly trying circumstances, if even just visiting had me feeling lethargic and kinda wanting to go home within a week. Now that I'm back home again, that time in the USA is already starting to feel like a strange dream again.
So, uhh, what are your secrets, basically? Like I'm sure that all the nonsense of the USA feels like less of a burden to put up with if you grew up with it and have spent little to no time in other parts of the world, but still. I honestly do not think I could live in the USA until it is decolonized, but when that happens, it wouldn't be called the USA anymore, anyways.
Finding lots of like-minded people, and articulating a vision of how to operate a shadow/parallel economy in little progressive pockets. If you can make your neighborhood or city a safe and kind and prosperous place, it doesn't matter so much what the opposite corners of the country think. It gives me lots of joy to be around my autonomous communist comrades in any of the spots we're concentrated in, and my life is an aspiration to build those milieus until they stretch continuously all across Turtle Island and until their people have no substantial dependence on the government.
"If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem." -Stokely Carmichael
Also, I really don't see it as a paradigm of "you pick someplace to live off the menu". I'll bloom revolutionary flowers where I was planted. Every place is going to need anti-capitalist approaches adapted to its particular context.