Why I am leaving the US...

[Final-Fan]

TheRealMafoo said:
As for the US, countries rise and fall. When the US falls, it will be quick, and of its own doing. No country lasts forever. I think because all our lives the US has been the world super power, we get the feeling it will just always be that way, and we can treat it any way we like.

I feel a little like the Jews that left Germany in the late 1920 and early 1930's. A lot of people just thought they were crazy.

I have been pretty good all my life at recognizing when it's time to leave a company or city based on economics. That intuition is telling me I need to leave the country, because in the coming 2-5 years, things are going to get REALLY bad.

Well, as for the last part, I think your instincts are underestimating the USA and its people! 

But I think the first (remaining) paragraph has a point, in that I also think people are not recognizing the fact that there are actually consequences for all the shit people have gotten up to in our government over the last few decades.  There will be problems, just not on the scale I imagine you're imagining.  But part of it is also probably that I lead a much less nomadic life, so things would have to get pretty bad indeed to make me leave the country.