Yes. Three problems:
- Language barrier for 4/5 of them
- One I speak the language of, but the climate is unbearable to me.
- As developing countries that AES states are, those that have the same profession as me have overall worse living standards than in my part of the world.
I am going to move anyway, but not to a socialist country (for now).
I have tried during covid. I was told you have to be a Chinese national to apply.
Not necessarily, from what I understand having a very important job or education is a gateway.
To echo some Canucks below, I would probably realistically not leave unless it was all-but guaranteed fruitless death to not, in which case it’d be a toss up between Mexico and Cuba. I have grown attached to the USA, all my friends and family are here, and I feel an overwhelming sense of duty to foment revolution here. I would love to visit and experience AES countries, though, and I am encouraging my friend to move to China because his genius lies in highly developed fields, his contribution to humanity would be best actualized there.
The only thing keeping me in the west are my elderly parents who don’t want to move anywhere. Otherwise, I would be living in China right now. I absolutely do want to make the move at some point though, and have been learning Mandarin in the meantime.
I’d probably only do it for survival reasons or temporarily for learning. I’ve considered moving a lot in my life (specially fooled by brain drain Western propaganda), but the whole process is too costly and risky, and doesn’t help make my country a better place.
If I get the conditions to afford moving elsewhere, I would also likely have the conditions to live a comfortable life or try to make a change here.
But it’s always good to learn some Chinese and Spanish as backup ;)
