alt Hacker NewsThe scary thing is I don’t know of a place that would be better for Americans in the next 20-30 years:
- Western Europe needs to figure out quickly how to adapt to a likely diminished or non-existent American role in NATO while at the same time dealing with a very assertive Russia.
- Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are nice but have astronomically high housing prices.
- Japan is struggling with three decades of stagnation, an aging population, and the weak yen.
- Taiwan faces an existential crisis should mainland China attempt to repossess it.
- South Korea is a bright spot, but it has to deal with North Korea and (to a lesser extent) China.
- The developing world is still developing and still needs more time to approach a standard of living that matches that of the developed world.
- China is probably going to overtake the United States in terms of economy, and it has a high standard of living in its urban areas, but living in China means living under CCP rule.
I’m not optimistic about the US in the next few decades, but I’m not optimistic about other developed countries. I’m in my late 30s; sadly if the next 20-30 years are rough, then that’s the rest of my working life…
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> Western Europe needs to figure out quickly how to adapt to a likely diminished or non-existent American role in NATO while at the same time dealing with a very assertive Russia.
Primary, western europe seems to be last chance for democracy. Like, last democracies standing.
> - Canada, [...] are nice but have astronomically high housing prices.
Vancouver, Toronto, and the surrounding areas have crazy housing prices, but the rest of the country is still mostly okay. These are the two biggest English-speaking cities, and about a third of the country lives in either of them, so they're where most new immigrants tend to go, but there are still tons of other great cities in Canada with better housing prices.