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What were your reasons for leaving the US, if it's something you'd be willing to share?
by deanmoriarty 4y ago
What were your reasons for leaving the US, if it's something you'd be willing to share?
- away27072022 4y agoNot OP but will answer anyway. Lived in the US for quite a long time and left a couple of years ago. Below are just my very subjective opinions. 1. Unhealthy relationship with cars, race and food. Food is bad quality in general compared to other developed countries. 2. Car centric city planning, zoning. Suburb culture. 3. Bad or lacking and underfunded public transport everywhere. 4. No public healthcare. 5. Not very good for introverted people who just want to be chill and mind their own business. 6. People will look at you strange or make fun of you if you don’t like or care about certain American things like BBQ, football, burgers, pizza, etc. 7. People in general don’t know much about the rest of the world, and only consume American cultural products. 8. Unsafe outside in certain parts of the city. "Don't go south of that street" kind of stuff. 9. Trump. I lived in Scandinavia and certain developed Asian countries, and found that these places fit me better, so that’s why I moved away.
- simonebrunozzi 4y agoSorry I missed your question. Few things: 1) family reasons (father-in-law was sick, wanted to stay closer) 2) had enough of SF. Expensive, dirty, unsafe, poorly managed. 3) was missing some cultural interactions (European/Italian vs “shallower” Californian) 4) tax advantages for returning to Italy 5) wanted to start a new VC firm, thought that non-US became interesting.