https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/gen-z-children-immigrants-doomism-leaving-usa-rcna160885
Salah said her rheumatologist was ecstatic when he found out she was leaving the country. “He was anticipating that a lot of my stress would go away when I move abroad, and therefore my lupus would get better,” she said. “And also the quality of food. So he was very, very excited for me.”
I got a long term job offer in Shanghai, after spending my first summer post-college interning there. Summer of 2014
I said no because I felt guilty leaving my family, and it’s basically the only regret in my life.
what kind of job, if you dont mind sharing, it’s something i would like to hopefully do
Nothing exciting, administrative at Shanghai Media group. Almost every expat there started as an English teacher, model, or student/intern somewhere and just used their free time to job hunt. since moving back to America, I’ve never seen a realistic job to apply for that was based in China , especially without mastery of a second language.
my sister now lives in north america, she came back in france 2 weeks ago and the first thing she did was go buy fresh food, she told me food in NA is “diseased” and “miserable”.
She’s absolutely not wrong. The food here is grown for weight (that means it’s all water, and no flavor) and transportation (that means it will taste horrible, and will be available in the store for purchase well before it is ripe).
The rules for pesticide use is also far more lax here than Europe. And food is often sweetened with HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) and is filled with preservatives to increase shelf life (again, a matter of profitability).
Would you like to hear about what happened to the “famous” Florida grown oranges?
Tell us GlueBear! Tell us what happened to the oranges!
As for the chicken, holy fuck. They’ve become almost inedible. I say almost because I hate to waste food, even horribly cooked food.
Because chickens have been bred for faster and larger growth, the meat itself now has problems. There’s a disease called “woody breast”
You can read more about it here, but in summary: chicken breast texture has changed for the worst because of the industry’s insistence on faster growth and larger chickens. The link above has some pictures with it too. It’s absolutely awful, and it’s one of the reasons I eat so little meat in general.
Fuck, we even got green chicken in the US. And it’s because of the same problem that led to “woody breast” disease.
The u.s government website fucking talking about it. And here are some pictures:
https://www.maplecreekpoultry.com/notes-and-information/whys-it-green
Only in the u.s can you get green fucking chicken.
It’s disgusting.
I still remember what Florida oranges used to be.
They used to be large and filled with sweet juice. They had the flavor of oranges and you could always count on a good juice to fruit ratio. Florida oranges were (and are still used today) as juicing oranges. Chances are if you bought orange juice in the u.s, then you were drinking the juice of Florida oranges.
Now oranges are significantly dryer and lack the flavor they used to have. I tested it out by eating the fruit straight, and it was tougher to chew and had less juice (and less flavor) in each slice. I even bought some orange juice not too long ago, and this juice wasn’t from concentrate either. It was made from fresh squeezed Florida oranges, and that was the only ingredient on the package.
When I tell you that it tastes like water with orange fruit essence and sugar added in, I’m not exaggerating one bit. It was the worst tasting orange juice I had ever had, and mind you this was from one of the more widely purchased brands of orange juice in the US (they proudly advertise their use of Florida oranges on the package).
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/florida-citrus-loses-its-sweet-taste-scientists-are-hunt-solutions
In the link above, it states that this distinct change in flavor and juice content it’s due to a disease that is affecting most of the harvest. However well before this disease hit, I remember that Florida oranges were large because the fruit inside was large. Now the oranges are massive, and that’s due to the pith becoming significantly thicker. The fruit inside stayed the same size, got dryer and more bland, but the pith got significantly thicker. So you pay more for the weight increase, even though that increase didn’t come from more fruit it came from a thicker pith.
So even the best tasting fruit you could get grown in the u.s became like u.s tomatoes. Large, bland, and more expensive because of the size. Produce in this country has been going down in general.
Everytime I go to the store to grab some lettuce I always have to double check for E. Coli or listeria contaminations because of how frequently they have occured in the last years. Jalapenos are becoming less spicy, they’re crossed that way so more people can buy them. For come reason, cucumbers go bad even quicker than they used to unless you splurge and by the large variety that comes shrink wrapped with a single cucumber in the package.
It’s really bad now, basic ingredients have lost their flavors. I can see why people prefer fast food now, if they can afford it of course.
Even the fucking chicken you get from the store has gotten fucked up by capitalism. I’ll post about that in another comment.
I know if I was the child of an immigrant, I would just try to make a bunch of money and move to the country my parents came from where my quality of life would be so much higher with all those US dollars.
the US is going to empty out in the next 30 years. the middle class is going to flee to cheaper countries. taking a cue from immigrants who send all their money home from the US and then go back home and have a nice life set up.
Salah said she’s confident in her decision to leave the U.S., despite some of the trade-offs that come with exiting a democracy and living under Qatar’s emir, or ruler.
One of the reasons I hate living in this country is just the pure ideology like this that you get blasted with every single day. It sucks because I live a comfortable life (my parents are landleaches) in a suburb where my uni is a 15 minute drive away but I just can’t stand living in a country like this. I can’t just block out everything.
“There’s no one on this planet who could be that bad of a person that we need to assassinate just to keep them out of the presidency,” Christian said. “How radical the American culture and society is getting in its entirety is making me go, ‘I really need to get out of here.’”
Ewww. Even when they know that there’s something wrong with the system they have nothing to say other than “wow how radical.” Probably just MSM whitewashing though so I’m going to say anything else.
“I think American politics is a joke,” Salah said. “I think we’re seeing that no matter which party is in power, no matter which face it is, it’s kind of the same system.
Oh no the Americans are learning what every Global South country with an enforced capitalist system already knew.
