I love your plan. It must be something of a relief for you to have new options. I recently went through hospice with a close friend, and I understand some of what you've gone through.
Your plans are exciting and I hope you're able to do some of those things soon. I envy you!
Sadly, I feel like I could have written this post myself, albeit in a less polished and organized manner. I’ve reached a point in my life where I’m seriously considering relocating outside the United States until after the midterms, when I may or not come back. I’m probably a little older than you & I’m exhausted and becoming embittered. I feel like I DID all this already, 30-40 years ago. I thought I could enter my “golden years” with an understanding that, despite all the hiccups along the way, the nation of my birth, the one that provided this lower class ambitious southern female with access to the “American Dream,” was bumbling into the future with perhaps a population of adolescents but that our institutions could protect us from the cultural vagaries inherent in consensus governance. That was before Trump 1.0, COVID and the takeover of our mass media by monopolistic oligarchs with their own personal agendas… and no accountability. I’m stunned at our current situation and our universal complacency. I’ve got to either rabble rouse or leave. And it’s getting lonely looking for fellow warriors when it all feels like an abstraction to the very people who have the most invested in stopping this. I’m running out of gas.
Thank you so much for writing this. I rarely get feedback, so it's wonderful to hear from somebody.
You'd have to be over 75 to be older than me! I too am contemplating leaving this country. My wife isn't there yet, but that's mostly because of the grandchildren. If I could snap my fingers in the leaf today, I'd be gone.
I’m exactly 75 & recently lost my husband after a long home hospice. We had no children and my extended family/ support system is virtually nonexistent since COVID & years of hospice responsibilities. I’m making plans to study as a “senior” at some of the best universities in Europe next year, auditing courses in subjects like quantum entanglement, creative writing and 20th Century Politics taught by genuine scholars. I desperately need to separate myself from this. I need to start thinking about Americans as “them” not “us” because I don’t recognize them anymore.
I love your plan. It must be something of a relief for you to have new options. I recently went through hospice with a close friend, and I understand some of what you've gone through.
Your plans are exciting and I hope you're able to do some of those things soon. I envy you!
Come visit me in Civrac-en-Medoc, France!
I love your plan. It must be something of a relief for you to have new options. I recently went through hospice with a close friend, and I understand some of what you've gone through.
Your plans are exciting and I hope you're able to do some of those things soon. I envy you!
Sadly, I feel like I could have written this post myself, albeit in a less polished and organized manner. I’ve reached a point in my life where I’m seriously considering relocating outside the United States until after the midterms, when I may or not come back. I’m probably a little older than you & I’m exhausted and becoming embittered. I feel like I DID all this already, 30-40 years ago. I thought I could enter my “golden years” with an understanding that, despite all the hiccups along the way, the nation of my birth, the one that provided this lower class ambitious southern female with access to the “American Dream,” was bumbling into the future with perhaps a population of adolescents but that our institutions could protect us from the cultural vagaries inherent in consensus governance. That was before Trump 1.0, COVID and the takeover of our mass media by monopolistic oligarchs with their own personal agendas… and no accountability. I’m stunned at our current situation and our universal complacency. I’ve got to either rabble rouse or leave. And it’s getting lonely looking for fellow warriors when it all feels like an abstraction to the very people who have the most invested in stopping this. I’m running out of gas.
Thank you so much for writing this. I rarely get feedback, so it's wonderful to hear from somebody.
You'd have to be over 75 to be older than me! I too am contemplating leaving this country. My wife isn't there yet, but that's mostly because of the grandchildren. If I could snap my fingers in the leaf today, I'd be gone.
I’m exactly 75 & recently lost my husband after a long home hospice. We had no children and my extended family/ support system is virtually nonexistent since COVID & years of hospice responsibilities. I’m making plans to study as a “senior” at some of the best universities in Europe next year, auditing courses in subjects like quantum entanglement, creative writing and 20th Century Politics taught by genuine scholars. I desperately need to separate myself from this. I need to start thinking about Americans as “them” not “us” because I don’t recognize them anymore.
I love your plan. It must be something of a relief for you to have new options. I recently went through hospice with a close friend, and I understand some of what you've gone through.
Your plans are exciting and I hope you're able to do some of those things soon. I envy you!