There is an American exceptionalism embedded in the idea that y'all think you can just pick up and leave and go wherever you want. It's cute you think you'd be welcomed. Americans aren't exactly popular in the world.
I will be straight up, considering the United States’ behavior towards refugees fleeing persecution, I’m not sure that Americans who try to do the same shouldn’t have their passports flagged and be asked to leave.
But ESPECIALLY if you try to flee to a country USA has interfered with.
also it's exhausting to see people constantly going "oh i'll just move to nz".
Cool did you know we had an election last year? And we very much don't have the government you probably think we have?
our asylum claim to NZ was denied because they were “too old & likely to use welfare” in their early 40’s. we got lucky in the US: my dad worked as a professor of electrical engineering, my mom made hundreds of millions as a biochemist for Unilever. but they didn’t cost the NZ taxpayers a dime!
