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DingleBerryNW

(53 posts)
Sat Mar 8, 2025, 05:57 PM Mar 2025

Seeking Asylum

Out of curiosity, has anyone here given serious consideration about making contingency plans to relocate to another country, if our lives become threatened?



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Seeking Asylum (Original Post) DingleBerryNW Mar 2025 OP
Nothing serious WmChris Mar 2025 #1
My kid is in NC... FirstLight Mar 2025 #2
We checked snowybirdie Mar 2025 #3
Yes. Trying to get my house ready to sell. Just in case. 58Sunliner Mar 2025 #4
Yes ZDU Mar 2025 #5
Yes Chi67 Mar 2025 #6
My son and his family bernieb Mar 2025 #7
Nope. OldBaldy1701E Mar 2025 #8

WmChris

(335 posts)
1. Nothing serious
Sat Mar 8, 2025, 06:04 PM
Mar 2025

We did renew our passports just before the orange menace took office. Started thinking an escape plan may be needed at some point. Canada, Costa Rica, and Mexico seem worth thinking about.

FirstLight

(15,158 posts)
2. My kid is in NC...
Sat Mar 8, 2025, 06:08 PM
Mar 2025

They're non binary and their bf is trans...
They've discussed Canada but are also 23 and broke.

So they're contingency plan is actually to come back out here to California and stay with me make some extra money over the summer if possible and then we're all going to go homestead in the wilderness... Of Northern California.

snowybirdie

(6,127 posts)
3. We checked
Sat Mar 8, 2025, 06:08 PM
Mar 2025

Into getting Irish citizenship as grandparents came from there.But were a bit long in the tooth to relocate. Grandmother's thatched roof cottage is still available in Co. Kilkenny though.

58Sunliner

(5,800 posts)
4. Yes. Trying to get my house ready to sell. Just in case.
Sat Mar 8, 2025, 06:55 PM
Mar 2025

Where to go? Not sure. I was thinking of retiring in France, but the orange anus is probably going to eff that up with SS payments being made difficult for people abroad. Having residency status would mean they would know where you are because of your taxes that you would have to file and a foreign bank acct. So I would be forced to not be a resident which means you can only stay somewhere for a limited time. If they gut SS it will limit my income. If that goes out the window anyway and it becomes a danger, then I may well leave anyway and hope for the best.

bernieb

(92 posts)
7. My son and his family
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 10:40 AM
Mar 2025

They are in the process of getting passports and looking at relocating to Regina, Canada. They have four kids one of whom is transgender.

OldBaldy1701E

(7,989 posts)
8. Nope.
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 07:45 PM
Mar 2025

Too broke and too old to even consider it anyway.

If things come to that, I hope I can take a few with me. That is the best I can hope for.

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