Isn't it cold there?
Anyway, it just bugs the crap out of me that these clowns bus in their unwanteds when we have no place to house them, and then blame us for having homelessness. Then they bus in their violent white supremacist thugs, like Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys, and then blame us for violent protests in our streets. And then they say, look at this tiny liberal arts college already long well-known for its whackiness, and that's supposedly our fault too (for allowing it to exist apparently). They invade every aspect of our local politics with their non-local interests, preventing us from getting anything done, usually with uproar about taxes they weren't going to have to pay anyway (because they don't live here).
But yeah, if we say anything negative about where they live, that's us pissing on them and where they live.
Yes, they have an actual winter but the cost of living is very much lower and, while my combined pensions aren't bad, they aren't enough to afford this place. In New Brunswick (Moncton is where I've chosen) those dollars will go a lot farther and provide for a much nicer lifestyle in my declining years.
While I've been aware for some time of the hard right gaining ground in the US, as it has world wide, I gotta admit, I'm somewhat taken aback by how deep it's roots seem to be in the US and how broken (or in the process of being broken) so many of the mainstays of modern liberal democracy seem to be in the country.
Your country is in trouble and I suspect it's gonna get a fair bit worse over the next few years. As, I suspect, the world at large is going to as well.
Makes me feel glad that I'm old and, in Canada, somewhat out of the main lines of fire as I'm not particularly optimistic about what's to come.
But yeah, New Brunswick can be pretty cold.
mind you, having said that, the weather here seems to be getting progressively worse over time.
