For those of us who live in the US things are and have been scary and depressing for a while, this seems to also be true about quite a few more countries in the world.

If you are living in a country that you deem safe, well functioning and overall a good country to live in, how do you feel? Do you feel anxious about the current state of the world? Also, what country are you in? (Just in case 🫣)

  • shaggyb@lemmy.world
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    The USA isn’t particularly functional at the moment, but I’d hesitate to say it’s lost much of the safety it had YET.

    Most are still going to work, not being robbed, not being shot in the street, and so forth SO FAR.

    Those things may change, but I’d be cautious about calling the USA unsafe until it actually is. I’d still rather be in most of America than most of, say, Syria right now from that standpoint.

  • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    Mexico. We’re very happy here, honestly!

    We got our first woman president who keeps wowing us with comprehensive initiatives and continuing the work of our last president who got us on the right track. Great reforms are happening after a long string of corrupt presidencies that were more interested in personal gain. We had actual government efficiency reviews that cut down on misappropriated funds that have now been reinvested. And we’re expanding our exports to things like chipset manufacturing and growing our infrastructure.

    Our public spaces are prettier, cleaner, more accessible, and quite modern here in the large cities. I know that my city alone is not what it used to be 10 or even 5 years ago. I keep saying we’re not a third world country anymore. We’re on our up and up so long as the international powers that be allow it.

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      That’s amazing! So glad to hear it. Don’t let those assholes to the North talk down to you. Sounds like you have a functioning Democracy and you’ll be able to hold that over our heads for decades I’m sure.

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    Germany. While I do feel like my country is overall still safe and a good place to live, it feels to me like we’re on the brink. The US may well drag us down with them and even if they don’t, our own politicians might just do that on their own. So yeah, quite anxious and not overly optimistic right now. The next few years will be critical and it could go either way really.

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      Left Germany for Switzerland and while I never really felt unsafe in Germany, it’s so much more relaxed here. And I start to really appreciate direct democracy.

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        I can imagine. Switzerland is in many ways in quite a unique, privileged position in Europe. I’ve gotten job offers in Switzerland but personally, I don’t really mesh with its culture. If I ever move away, I think it’ll either be somewhere like The Netherlands, or even a lot further away, like New Zealand or Japan.

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    I’m pretty happy

    Guatemala.

    Good food, good people, good mountains, laid-back fun culture.

    incidentally, I am from the states but have chosen not to live in the US for the past decade for reasons that have now become obvious to everyone.

    I’m not too worried if the US collapses, there are 200 other countries to live in.

    it doesn’t seem like it will collapse entirely, maybe, since that wouldn’t benefit the rich people in charge of it? good luck.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Not from a “functioning safe country”, but I just want to say: No matter where I go, things are just fucked.

    I was born in PRC, and the Rural areas doesn’t even have bathrooms in your own home, and you’d have to go to a shared bathroom in the village. In the city, I don’t have a Hukou (Household Registration), so you’re basically an “illegal immigrant” inside your own country (and, as many of you know, its very authoritarian). And even the city, there is problems with finding a job because theres like 1/7 of the world population in the country. Then I got to the US and casual racism is everywhere, and even Chinese Americans classmates (who are born in the US) refuse to stand up for me against racism.

    Now its declining into fascism.

    Wow, the bad luck just follows me everywhere doesn’t it?

    Hey EU, wanna give me political asylum? (Hopefully the bad luck doesn’t follow me into the EU lol)

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      I don’t know man, fratelli is already in power, afd and rn are on the doorstep, etc. that being said if you’re not too brown you have your chances

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        I’ve seen people saying “oh the AfD only has like 20% support” like the US didn’t vote Trump into power with only 25% of the population. Also, 20% of a population supporting literal nazis is something to be concerned about.