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> the average person here is probably a lot closer to taking a holiday trip in a submersible than to taking a refugee boat across the Mediterranean There is no
by codetrotter 3y ago
> the average person here is probably a lot closer to taking a holiday trip in a submersible than to taking a refugee boat across the Mediterranean
There is no way in hell I would pay $250k to board a janky-ass sub going deep into the ocean.
For $250k, I could buy a nice house for me, my girlfriend and our future family.
And even that is not possible yet. Because I don’t have that kind of money.
- emeril 3y agomaybe so but a lot of contributors here are pretty loaded and could def drop $250k on something on a whim
- soperj 3y ago> For $250k, I could buy a nice house for me, my girlfriend and our future family. That's not even enough of down payment for a tear down where I live!
- codetrotter 3y agoRelocate :D In the city I was born I don’t think there is room for a couple with kids anywhere near $250k. Probably I’d need $400k or more there for any kind of suitable housing. In the city where I rent currently, maybe just barely. But my hope is to scrape together enough savings and then buy a house or flat for us somewhere in the world where $250k or thereabouts would be sufficient.
- asynchronous 3y agoReminder too that literally everyone is one country-ending catastrophic event away from being on a refugee boat
- hguant 3y agoThis is something of a false equivalence - yes, "everyone" is at risk from a country ending event, but not all countries are equally at risk.
- sidewndr46 3y agoThe difference is when Libya collapses into civil war (or 3 governments or whatever) Libyan refugees migrate to other countries that are stable. When China, Western Europe, or the US collapses into civil war refugees from those countries do indeed migrate. The problem is other countries start collapsing as well because they were dependent on some form of trade with those regions. As a result its unlikely there will ever be a large scale exodus of people from the US. We'll all just be survivors in the wasteland at that point.
- boring_twenties 3y agoOnly those near a coast, actually
- AlecSchueler 3y agoMany people are walking for months to reach the coast to escape on these refugee boats.
- boring_twenties 3y agoSo that's at least two things between them and the boat, then
- AlecSchueler 3y agoIt depends how you frame it. I'd consider the walk to the boat part of the journey.
- Dylan16807 3y agoWhat kind of single events could destroy most countries without taking out half the world or all of the world?
- parkersweb 3y agoJust listening to ‘Fukushima’ on BBC World Service podcasts and ‘major nuclear incident’ is definitely one that springs to mind.
- troupo 3y agoWat? Fukushima a) happened and b) Japan and the world are still there
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y agoA coup that splits the nation into warring factions.
- bobthepanda 3y agoReally, anything where the government response makes things worse and spirals out of control. A lot of the Central American refugees are fleeing very sharp increases in gang violence.
- ithkuil 3y agoNot all countries at the same time. But one country at random which would affect that random person. The rest of the world would watch and think that it never could have happened to them, just as that random person may have thought not long before.
- lostapathy 3y agoYou must live on the coast. There's plenty of us in the midwestern US that could never make it to a coast before the boats were all gone.
- stef25 3y agoNot that it involved a catastrophe but most of those people had been traveling dangerously for months to make it to Libya (or Egypt?)
- carlmr 3y agoAlso going on a boat to leave the US would be very stupid. There's a reason migrants take the Mediterranean route, instead of the Atlantic route.
- riley_dog 3y ago> Also going on a boat to leave the US would be very stupid. Why? As a Minnesotan, the first thing I'm doing is hopping on my boat and heading north to Canada.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoGo down the Mississippi :-)