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?
Chicago seems decent if you can handle the ridiculously cold winter months. That’s where I plan on going in the next few years, because it isn’t too different from where I currently live.
Chicago seems to have a bunch of hexbear liberals living in it though :kombucha-disgust:
As an unofficial Chicago ambassador to Hexbear, please believe me when I say people don’t eat that on the reg here. It’s for when your friends from out of town come visit and insist on deep dish.
The reality is, you can find any style of pizza at all here. Hell, just tonight I had a really great vegan chicken/bacon/cheddar/ranch pizza. I’ve got a slice in my hand right now.
Deep dish pizza is good even if you have to consider it not pizza to cope with its existence, and I don’t understand the hatred.
All pizzas are great. Neopolitan, Sicilian, American, Slavic-countries that crack an egg in the middle sometimes, thin crust, thick crust, shitty fast food, shitty local places, nicer local places, fancy places, wood fired, coal oven, I don’t care.
Only exception is cheese on top of the toppings and Papa John’s.
All of the US is racist, but big cities in the north and the coasts are marginally less so. As a nonbinary person, you’ll want to stick to larger metropolitan cities and states with trans friendly laws like California and Washington.
If you’re concerned about climate change, the area around the great lakes is supposed to remain stable.
If you can get to Spain instead, that might be better. I think I remember something about there being a program where the Spanish government gave citizenship to Puerto Ricans, but I’m not positive.
The exception to the City = Slightly Less Racism rule is Boston
I’ve been up in New England for nigh on a decade and Boston is worse than Milwaukee, Chicago and Madison (the three cities where I have actually had any residence)
You get it from both angles, Lib and Chuds and the Boston libs are the libbiest libs that ever libbed just as the Chuds are the chuddiest Chuds that ever chudded
Gonna shamelessly repeat a joke someone on here told me not too long ago:
How do you get a Bostonian to say a hard R? Tell them a black family just moved in down the street.
Doctor, I have become Pagliacci, the teller of jokes
If you can get to Spain instead, that might be better. I think I remember something about there being a program where the Spanish government gave citizenship to Puerto Ricans, but I’m not positive.
I know. could call the embassy and find out whtether or not it applies to me but Spain seems awfully fashy no adays…
Philly. Northeast US is most resilient to climate change. Philly is most affordable large city. Philly has a decent leftist scene and is culturally diverse.
If it’s only 5 that’s pretty low for a US city. New York averages 370. :amerikkka:
The Northeast US might be a good fit for you. New York in particular has a large Puerto Rican population and parts of Upstate are going to have the least issues with climate change. Rochester, Buffalo, and NYC are all your best bets. Maybe Albany. The other cities have a larger chud percentage and less diversity. Housing isn’t awful if you know where to look but it can still be a challenge.
Puerto Rico is unfortunately only going to get worse from here as climate change increases. It’s a bit of a miracle it’s still standing even now. The hurricane has made me realize that my hometown is probably going to become uninhabitable by the end of the decade. It’s difficult to leave behind something that’s so familiar to you but I hope you’re able to find a fresh start wherever you decide to go.
Hawaii is chill, and has the most revolutionary potential of anywhere in the existing US
but its also a neoliberal vacuum and super fucking expensive
I don’t know how widespread the sentiment is, but all the native Hawaiians I see on Tiktok are very emphatic that they do not want anyone to move to Hawaii, vacation in Hawaii, or visit Hawaii, and would very much like all the white people, at least, to go away and never come back.
