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[–] 25 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I've been trying to convince my wife to leave since 2016. I'm 99% sure the main reason she won't agree is because she will burst into flames if she ever admits to being wrong about anything.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    When I married my wife in 2005 she told me she'd NEVER leave her home and family. Took her to Australia for the first time in 2015 and within an hour of landing she was ready to move, which we did in November 2015, right before trump 1.0. Now since last November she's looking into Australian citizenship and says she's never going back. Don't give up hope!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    What about it made her want to move?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Mostly it was moving from the Midwest to a sub-tropical beach paradise. Which I thought (but definitely didn't say) was kinda funny, because her reason for saying she'd never move was family. But pretty much all the reasons she's been glad we did move are related to trump and what the US has become.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Politics have been a convenient correlation, but I've been convincing my wife to move further and further north to more climate-change resilient areas

    Almost like that poleward range shift is gonna affect humans just like any other animal

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    You still can't have Canada though. But if you're nice and promise not to annex the country, we might let you in.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    We (me much more strongly than my wife) are considering leaving altogether.

    One reason I advocated for the twin cities as our "final" stopping point was because the boundary waters are a very porous border and I know i could get my family across with relative speed and low risk

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)