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Gayna's avatar

I hope I don’t offend with my own personal feelings, but I feel the United States I grew up in is gone. It is an authoritarian state with lunatics running the government. I frankly am ashamed of the United States, and no matter what material comforts I experienced there (and there were a lot), I will never live there again. My two sons are all I miss in that fascist and unequal place. I also moved here from Texas and that government is so corrupt and so cruel, it was a living hell. I have zero regrets about moving and zero regrets about my decision never to live there again. It is a bad place and only getting worse.

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Rob K's avatar

Wonderful post, Carol. We've been in Lisboa 14 months now and we have more sense of community and do more fun activities here than we ever did in Texas. It helps being retired and being stimulated by the new culture, language, international urban vibe, etc. We do miss our friends and family, but we've had a fairly constant string of visitors and we enjoy showing them our new community. The material comforts of the U.S. are more than compensated by the healthier, less stressed lifestyle in Portugal imho.

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