Replying to @livelovelaugh978 The choice between permanent mild discomfort and temporary extreme discomfort isn't talked about honestly because acknowledging it requires admitting you're choosing familiar suffering over unfamiliar solution. American life for most people is: constant background financial stress, mild deprivation disguised as normal, saying no to things you want but can't afford, living slightly below where you'd prefer to be, accepting that this is just how it is. That's not comfortable. That's chronic low-level discomfort you've normalized as adult life. You're already uncomfortable. You're just comfortable with that specific type of uncomfortable because it's familiar. The alternative is: extreme temporary discomfort of cutting everything to bare minimum for 6-12 months, living in ways that feel embarrassing or depriving, making choices you don't want to make, followed by permanent reduction in baseline stress and cost of living. One is accepting discomfort as permanent feature of life. Other is choosing to intensify discomfort temporarily to eliminate chronic version of it. Neither option is comfortable. You're choosing between types of discomfort and timelines. Most people choose familiar permanent discomfort over unfamiliar temporary discomfort. Not because permanent is better. Because familiar feels safer even when it's worse. The "I can't afford to leave" statement is revealing what you're actually choosing. You can't afford to leave while maintaining current lifestyle standards in America. If you were willing to drop those standards temporarily, you could afford it. That's not judgment. That's math. The money exists. It's going to: phone plans, streaming services, car payments, housing that's slightly nicer than absolute minimum, food choices, convenience purchases, things that make current situation bearable. Redirecting all of that toward exit fund for 6-12 months would generate enough for: passport, plane tickets, initial months abroad while establishing situation. Not comfortable. Possible. The calculus most people don't do is: how much am I spending annually to make living in America slightly less miserable versus how much would it cost to leave America and eliminate source of misery. Often the annual cost of making America bearable exceeds one-time cost of leaving. But leaving requires concentrated discomfort over short period while staying distributes discomfort across indefinite timeline. Psychologically people choose distributed. This is why some people relocate on tiny budgets while others making more money claim it's impossible. Not about total resources. About willingness to reallocate all resources toward single goal temporarily versus maintaining baseline quality of life indefinitely. The right-wing accusation isn't wrong. Telling people to sacrifice more when they're already struggling sounds like bootstrap rhetoric. But there's difference between "work harder within broken system" and "be strategic about exiting broken system." One is asking you to sacrifice so system continues extracting from you. Other is asking you to sacrifice strategically to escape system's extraction. Different purposes for same temporary sacrifice. Nobody should have to choose between: staying in place that's grinding them down or living like broke college student for year to escape it. But that is the choice for many people. Pretending it's not a choice doesn't change that it is. Link in bio for people willing to be very uncomfortable temporarily for permanent improvement. What would you cut to fund your exit? ๐๐บ๐ธ
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At the risk of sounding a little right wing, as I say this, when people tell me they want to leave the United States, but they can't afford it, but they want too so bad. All I hear is you are willing to be mildly uncomfortable for the rest of your life, because you're unwilling to be really uncomfortable for a short period of time in order to change things for the better forever. Right now, if you have written to me by saying that you really want to do something but you're too broke, you've written to me probably on a smartphone device. And it's probably not as old as it could be. Could you trade it in and get a couple hundred bucks? Could you downgrade your internet service? Could you get rid of your streaming platforms? Could you sell some stuff in your house that you accumulated during the times where you were more flush with cash? Could you pick up some extra jobs so you have more income streams? Now I understand, do you want to do that long term? No, I don't want you to do that long term either. I do not think people should have to do that in order to survive. But what America has done is put you into this mild discomfort forever, forever, where you cannot afford to live the life you want to live because they've made that impossible. Whereas if you could just be really uncomfortable for a short period of time, downgrade the place that you live in, downgrade your car, get the cheapest of everything, cancel everything you possibly can, you could actually change your budget enough to give some wiggle room to all you need is enough income for a passport and a plane ticket. And that can get you out and allow you to create the wiggle room that you need abroad. Once you're abroad, you will not be stacked with all of the expenses that are so much worse in the United States, your healthcare costs, your child care costs, the exorbitant food prices. There are things in the United States that are just so unavoidable, but there are things that you're not doing right now because they will make your life even worse than the mild discomfort that you're feeling. And if you really wanted to move abroad, you would be doing those things. You would be doing the ultra annoying hard things in order to make that move abroad happen. So I know that is very right wing to say that because it's like I'm asking you to suffer more. But I really think that short term suffering in the long term payoff is better than the mild discomfort forever by staying in the United States. If you don't know me, I'm Veronica. And five years ago, I left the United States. We did not have a lot of money. Our family of four had $3,000 in the bank and we made a move abroad happen. And now we've lived on three different continents in the last five years, and I teach Americans how you can do the same. So if you really want to leave, then maybe you won't like what I'm saying, but I think you should try it.
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