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If you could choose to move outside the US, would you? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And if you'd decide to leave, where would you go?

Context for why I'm asking: I'm trans and currently live in Minnesota, I moved here from Florida so I have some idea of how miserable big moves can be. I can get EU citizenship which makes me very lucky, but... Do I sit here and hope Minnesota can protect me from 🥭 or do I try to build a life somewhere else, again?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No. There's 50 states with their own legislative bodies and laws. Our system of federalism is much better than any gives it credit for at ensuring that people of different places can live as they please. The limited nature of federal government means that the most changes are actually state level choices.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Which state has the free health care?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure Hawaii still has their publicly-funded healthcare option. I know a number of communities across the US had much smaller free insurance programs that mostly died off when the ACA passed. Some of them might still exist as heavily means-tested shadows of their former selves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Massachusetts has free or subsidized healthcare for everyone below three times the FPL.