[Tupelo]

“The city is well on its way to becoming a third-world dump, complete with lousy economy, corruption galore, a rundown look, crime like Caracas, zero investment, and people fleeing.”

I think you can safely change “the city” to “the nation”.
Yesterday, my wife of nearly 60 years asked me if I thought we were too old to maybe immigrate to Australia.
Not only too late, but Australia would not want non productive people like us.
But that question would have been completely unheard of just a year or so ago and now, I would recommend all my children and grand children looking into it before it is too late.

[Karma_Sherab]

Why on God’s earth would you move to Australia where everyone is locked down?

[ShadowAce]

Australia is worse than the US at this point.

[MtnClimber]

Communists always destroy economies. They blame the actions of criminals on the lack of equality which they blame on the rich. Then they go after the rich. That is right before everyone is starving.

[FreedomPoster]

You’re clearly not hearing about the Covid lockdown police state that Australia has become.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Australia is worse than the US. They are in total lockdown and the police are beating and gassing people who dare to venture too far from their homes.

[RinaseaofDs]

Try Ecuador instead. Fantastic.

[ConservativeMind]

Australia is a poor choice, but pick a conservative state that does not have an income tax.

Any state living on the backs of only those reporting legal income means it is financially incentivizing sloth and crime at the expense of reimbursable legal work. Such states will continue to go down the tubes.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I am 70. I filled out the on-line form to see if I qualified to immigrate to Australia some years ago and easily qualified. Basically, I have adequate independent income (pension and Social Security) and savings. But at 70, why bother? It’s my grandkids I worry about. They do not have any private income, and I cannot provide it for them.

[Bearshouse]

immigrate to Australia.

In my youth, I wanted to at least visit Australia. Not now, have you seen the dictatorial hellhole they've got now? Lockdowns, mandates and huge camps for quarantines. We are absolutely liberated compared to what's happening there.

[yesthatjallen]

"Australia is one of the few countries in the world that require residents to apply for permission before leaving the country."

More and More Australians Are Seeking to Leave the Country (and being denied)

[Fiji Hill]

Yesterday, my wife of nearly 60 years asked me if I thought we were too old to maybe immigrate to Australia.

If you want to move to a totalitarian police state, why not immigrate to Cuba? It's a lot closer.

[ealgeone]

No way I’d go to dystopian Australia today.