1d ago

Please Come To Where You're Loved!

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I know this is a meme but if I were trans, and living in the US, I would 100% do my best to GTFO.
I was legit thinking a few days ago, we (Australia) should invite progressive voting Americans to migrate to Australia and ship our Trumpets over there.
- Unfortunately for a lot of us, we can’t even afford passports right now. We just have to stick it out
  
  Yeeeeup. Even if I could, Canada wouldn't take me since I'm poor, disabled, chronically ill, and unable to work (aka: won't make them money.) They don't want me; (nobody does, ha!) this applies to a lot of us.
  I wish you all the best dealing with everything. I hope you're at least in a more decent-ish state/local area. Much love to you. 💖💖💖
- Been working on it for the past 6 months. Part of the process for applying for Permanent Residence is a background check by the FBI though, and they're really dragging their feet on mine.
  
  Did you submit via mail or at a US post office with digital submission? Post office is much faster. Maybe you filed a dispute? Wishing you luck!!
  
  I sent it through the post office, yeah. The wait time is "up to 12 weeks" and I'm halfway through week 9 now.
  
  From my superficial research going there on work/study visa seems easier. Then you can decide whether to return or not later based on how things go. What do you think is the benefit of applying for permanent residency from the beginning? That seems a bit risky for me without knowing the culture and other aspects of living there.
  
  Not sure if you're talking about Australia or Canada but while it's easy enough to get a study visa for Australia the cost of studying here would preclude that option for most people.
  
  Talking about Australia.
  Yeah, I was surprised with how much the education cost was, but it seems to high mostly for foreigners so that's understandable. But it's still cheaper than US tuition cost.
  
  Yeah it's subsidised for residents.
  I think bachelor units are like $2,000 AUD each which is about 1.5 weeks full time average wage. 24 units in a bachelor.
  Closer to $10k each for foreigners.
  
  My partner migrated to Australia.
  There are multiple steps and the obscene waits at each step were awful.
- Isn't Australia basically owned by the US with the amount of military bases and deals the government has there? According to boyboy and thejuicemedia etc anyway.
  
  That's not really my take.
  Economically we're much more dependent on our exports to China. Any hickup in that relationship hurts. We also export heaps of grain, livestock, and gas to a variety of destinations.
  IDK what we export to the US, other than some beef and bauxite, but it's not much in the grand scheme. We were hit with the 10% Tariffs and our politicians were a bit "meh" about it. We didn't bother with retaliatory tariffs.
  Politically we have had a close relationship with the US. Obviously their military assets are huge compared to ours. The US military bases in Australia aren't here for our protection, they're here because the US want's a place from which to project power in our region.
  There's a trilateral security treaty called AUKUS between Australia, UK, and US. That's not all one way either - all three nations are making significant contributions for everyone's benefit. There's been some reporting on whether Trump will withdraw from this treaty - it would be disappointing but not a disaster. We're a pretty enough dance partner.
  
  Thanks for explaining, we greatly appreciate it!
- These are the kinds of trade agreements we need to be discussing! As an American I kinda have a thing for the Australian accent anyway so I'm down lol
  
  The American accent does extremely well in Australia.
  
  Oh reallllllyyyyy (Furiously Google Australia immigration requirements)
  I think I get negative points for the Long Island NY accent though.
  Or as we say it, lungilnd! Lol
  
  It's cute, but nothing beats a Minnesota accent for me.
  
  I'm ... not quite sure about that.
  I listen to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks and I find it difficult to get engaged with those from American presenters or narrators. I'm certainly not alone in that either.
  
  Down unda
  
  Nawrrr
- honestly, I'm down
- Just waiting for my passport to come in.

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