I’ve heard many socialists/communists really wanting to get the hell of the West, while many others feel that they should do work where they are toward socialism/communism. Just curious about opinions on this community. Would you want to actually go to a socialist country with all the difficulties that comes with uprooting your life and going through the immigration process? Why or why not? Have any of you ever attempted to? My (anticommunist) family immigrated to Canada from China when I was really young (wasn’t my choice) and I’m now a Canadian citizen (renounced Chinese nationality) and definitely used to Canadian/Western culture a lot more than Chinese culture, can barely speak Mandarin, but sometimes I debate to myself on trying to go back to China just because of all the shit that is going on here and all the good shit they’re getting right over there.
two years ago I had done most of the learning and preparing to immigrate to China and nationalize as a Chinese citizen, I even went the extra mile and got in touch with some people who were going to allow me to rent a room in their house while I got all of my stuff together. But, my girlfriend of the time put her heels down on the whole thing, because she didn’t believe China would be much better, and didn’t want her college education to go to waste (she would’ve had to redo it in China, because the certifications she was going to get wouldn’t transfer over). So I abandoned the idea.
I would try again, now that I’m no longer with her, but I’m far too poor to try again. Unless I immigrated illegally, and left a lot of meaningful stuff behind in the process, I simply couldn’t afford to do it now.
edit** I forgot it’s 2022, this happened in 2019. Just before the pandemic hit.
What would you have done for $ had you moved there?
I don’t actually know, I wanted to try to become a farmhand or something on a tea plantation, but I didn’t really look closely at employment options.
One route I’m thinking of doing, is to be a local student and pay for school there, then look for a job while getting fluency. Pry much easier to stay for a while on a student type visa, and easier to find a job once you’re there.