Asklemmy

47845 readers

995 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

Best countries to move to/live in nowadays? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

107 comments fedilink hide all child comments

With all the dismal news about America lately, my home, I'm starting to seriously look at where else to move.

Putting aside for now the difficulty of actually immigrating to some countries, I'm curious on the opinions of others (especially people living outside the U.S) on this.

What I'm looking for in a country is, I imagine, similar to many people. I'm trying to find somewhere that will exhibit:

Low racism
Low sexism
Low LGBTQ-phobia
Strong laws around food quality and safety
Strong laws about environmental protection
Strong laws against unethical corporate practices (monopoly, corruption, lobbying, etc)
Strong laws for privacy
Good treatment of mentally ill, homeless, and impoverished people

Those are the real important things. Of course the nice-to-haves are almost too obvious to be worth listing, low cost of living, strong art and cultural scene, nice environment, and so on.

My actual constraints that might really matter are that I only speak English (and maybe like A1-2 level German). It seems incredibly intimidating to try to find employment somewhere when I can hardly speak the language.

I know nowhere on Earth is perfect, just curious what people may have to suggest. I hope this question isn't too selfish to ask here.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, racism in europe is largely stereotypes directed at whole groups that are rooted in truth but grossly overblown, eg "black people just want to commit crime", "arabs want to install sharia", "east asians want to eat your dog", "indians want to outgrow the native population" and other nonsense.

If you ask the huge majority of the people who are saying these things if they interact with people in these groups, they'll say "yes, but they're some of the good ones" not realising it's only a tiny fraction who aren't, but also accepting that race doesn't automatically make you anything.

Comparing that to the US where (from what I'm aware of) there's both "I refuse to even speak to members of xyz race because they're subhuman" and "xyz race needs all the help they can get because they have such a tough time" it seems so hard for individuals to just live a normal life in the US?