wayneL
VIVA LA LIBERTAD, CARAJO!
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After this shemozzle of the covid lockdowns and now the passing of the digital identity bill, Mrs and I have decided to get the f*** out of here.
Australia is a really great place in many ways but in our opinion that is totally contingent upon Millsian liberties. There are not enough attractions to live here under a digital tyrrany and authoritarian police state.
This is not the country that my parents, along with me and my sibling, immigrated to in the 1970s. Apart from the grating accent, almost nothing is the same.
Yes we do realise that such tyrannies are probably going to be implemented almost everywhere, but our question to ourselves is where in the world could we be prepared to live under such tyrannies... And as I mentioned in another thread, it is a question of regions rather than nations.
There is nowhere in Australia where we would prepare to live under those circumstances.
Unfortunately we are somewhat constrained by being monolingual... Well just a little bit of terrible Spanish and German (and some relapsed Swahili and "Sweizerdeutch" in the Mrs).
So, looking for someplace where we can grow veggies and raise chickens without worrying about drought, or being huddled around a single candle, or fending off radicalized hordes, to live out our dotage.
Australia is a really great place in many ways but in our opinion that is totally contingent upon Millsian liberties. There are not enough attractions to live here under a digital tyrrany and authoritarian police state.
This is not the country that my parents, along with me and my sibling, immigrated to in the 1970s. Apart from the grating accent, almost nothing is the same.
Yes we do realise that such tyrannies are probably going to be implemented almost everywhere, but our question to ourselves is where in the world could we be prepared to live under such tyrannies... And as I mentioned in another thread, it is a question of regions rather than nations.
There is nowhere in Australia where we would prepare to live under those circumstances.
Unfortunately we are somewhat constrained by being monolingual... Well just a little bit of terrible Spanish and German (and some relapsed Swahili and "Sweizerdeutch" in the Mrs).
So, looking for someplace where we can grow veggies and raise chickens without worrying about drought, or being huddled around a single candle, or fending off radicalized hordes, to live out our dotage.