colin asked: > How would you that? I have often wondered >this. I know I couldn't leave this country no >matter what. Laws of other countreis make >that impossible. Where would you go legally >as an American citizen? Can you somehow by >pass the laws of other countries? Do >American citizens have different rights than the >rest of the world? You couldn't come here, >unless you married a Brit(sorry I am taken). > Or would you leave everything behind and be >a penniless refugee?
Well, I thought there was still legal emigration to several countries in this world. You have to apply for it, but it is really not that difficult for an American to emigrate to a number of countries. You have to show that you can support yourself and not have a criminal record, but that isn't an impossible barrier. I've actually considered it seriously myself a few times. Isn't is also easy for you to emigrate to all the countries in the British Commonwealth, too? > Leaving your own country is not easy-unless >you are a Doctor or some other needed >profession. Although I know of a lorry driver >who is emigrating to Canada > because Canada needs lorry drivers. Of course it's not easy and probably not desireable to most people. I just don't understand how someone can grow up in a country, despise it on many levels and still want to stay there. If they despise it so much, then living there shouldn't mean that much to them, especially if they see other countries as far more desirable places to live. I think it's an honest question. If terrorists took over your country and started making you adhere to their fundamentalism, would you still want to stay there? Most people would probably flee as fast as they could from their country rather than live that way and many people from many countries have done just that throughout the past couple centuries. Kakki
