Why Did I Leave the USA to Start a New Life in a Different Country?
Like most Americans I lived the vast majority of my life in the country where I was born & raised... the USA.
I spent my lifetime working hard to build a "great life" and there were hills and valleys along the way for sure. I suppose that's another blog post.
A very tiring life at times due to becoming an obsessive workaholic but a very satisfying life overall.
With that in mind, a person might wonder why I moved from the USA to Southeast Asia this year.
Was it because I wanted to finally be free of working for a living and I couldn't afford to do that while living in the USA?
The answer is NO. I made the sacrifices (including continuing to work and work while saving & investing) for another year and another year until I was finally prepared.
I'm definitely not rich. I simply reached a point where I was comfortable to finally quit jobs. However, I developed a high risk tolerance over my life so that plays a big part in it too. And this also can probably be another blog post of its own.
There are multiple reasons I gave up my life in the USA - at the time it should have become the best life I ever had - and moved to start over with a new life in a different country.
I was...
Ready for a "fresh start". I had lived in the USA my entire life. I had "been there done that". I wanted to experience something else. A new culture. Different people with different values.
Ready for new challenges. A new test. To build a life all over again using all that I had learned up to this point.
Tired of the political obsession & fanaticism. Tired of so many people making "everything" in the USA a political issue and part of a political platform. Seemingly loving to spend their lives in endless conflict.
Tired of the endless rules & regulations and extreme focus on "law & order" in the USA. The USA was built in strong support of personal liberty and that includes "it is better for a hundred guilty persons to escape than it is for one innocent to be punished" but that has been lost somewhere along the way.
The relatively lower cost of living is of course a great benefit even compared to my USA life in a tiny town. I live in a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house in a gated community for a total cost of living (as in my entire life not just housing) of no more than $1,200 per month.
But mostly, the reason I left is because the USA that I loved has changed and I do not like the direction it has been moving in for the past 20+ years.
Endless rules & regulations overcomplicating life at every step. Some rules are needed of course but anything taken to extremes is a bad thing and that is the point the USA has reached some time ago.
A large percentage of the people have been programmed to be an active part of this attack on personal liberty turning them into human surveillance devices on top of all of the other mass surveillance being done. This can be another post. lol
I couldn't care any less about politics. I'm NOT a Republican. I'm NOT a Democrat. Not a conservative. Not a liberal.
I am just me with my own mind, my own views of the world. I see good and bad in both "the right" and "the left" but it's big business to keep these two sides at odds so this means the conflict will likely never end.