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Posted: 4/30/2011 4:55:41 PM EDT

Political instability? All-out civil war? Financial collapse? Mad Max-style battle in the streets? Being targeted by a criminal organization? Being wrongly accused of a horrible crime?

What could cause you to leave the United States? (note that I came up with this while looking over the "bug out" thread. You should go check that out too: Original)

For me there are a few things–– for one, being falsely accused of rape (especially of a minor) to ruin my reputation, because I don't think that you can ever completely prove yourself innocent to people, and no matter what you do, they're still going to judge you, even if you are truly innocent. Hopefully I'll never allow myself to be put in a position where I could be accused of something like that.

Posted: 4/30/2011 4:56:51 PM EDT

[#1]

If another country offered free hookers and blow

Posted: 4/30/2011 4:56:56 PM EDT

[#2]

Nothing, I'll dig in and fight if I have to.

Posted: 4/30/2011 4:57:32 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Being wrongly accused of a horrible crime?

Why would you assume it was a wrongful accusation?

Posted: 4/30/2011 4:58:07 PM EDT

[#4]

MC4H being unbanned.

Or nuclear winter. Both highly unlikely, though.

Posted: 4/30/2011 4:58:12 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Nothing, I'll dig in and fight if I have to.

Yup, This is my home and I will try and fix it rather than run and hide!!

If all the people coming to this country would do the same we would be better off!!!

Posted: 4/30/2011 4:58:55 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Nothing, I'll dig in and fight if I have to.

We might have to.....

Posted: 4/30/2011 4:59:19 PM EDT

[#7]

Sometimes I am too silly.

Posted: 4/30/2011 4:59:43 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Nothing, I'll dig in and fight if I have to.

Yup, This is my home and I will try and fix it rather than run and hide!!

If all the people coming to this country would do the same we would be better off!!!

Hmmm see, overall big political things probably couldn't force me to leave (unless we just all-out went the theocratic or Communist route or something crazy like that, and even then I might be Red Dawning that shit), but certain more individualized things probably could.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:01:11 PM EDT

[#9]

Kate Beckinsale.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:01:12 PM EDT

[#10]

Either I'm staying or we're all going.

Fill your hands you son of a bitch.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:02:45 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Fill your hands you son of a bitch.

Hmmm? Not sure who you're referring to

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:04:04 PM EDT

[#12]

Nothing - Dig in and Fight

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:05:21 PM EDT

[#13]

I'll die here brother. Either peacefully or violently.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:06:18 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Fill your hands you son of a bitch.

Hmmm? Not sure who you're referring to

It's a John Wayne quote that I'm going to steal when the time is right.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:06:30 PM EDT

[#15]

Nothing.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:07:32 PM EDT

[#16]

Obvious intractable vote fraud by the party who would want such a thing. Then it's time to kill or get out of Dodge.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:08:03 PM EDT

[#17]

Shit staying pretty much on the same track its' on now.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:10:57 PM EDT

[#18]

Other question is, where would you go? Most of the rest of the world (at least the industrialized countries) has already gone socialist. Hmm....I wonder why the world is going to shit.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:14:44 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
I'll die here brother. Either peacefully or violently.

This says it all

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:15:28 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Other question is, where would you go? Most of the rest of the world (at least the industrialized countries) has already gone socialist. Hmm....I wonder why the world is going to shit.

We are humanities last hope.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:16:54 PM EDT

[#21]

Vacation.

Texas Secession...I'm not moving again.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:17:16 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Other question is, where would you go? Most of the rest of the world (at least the industrialized countries) has already gone socialist. Hmm....I wonder why the world is going to shit.

We are humanities last hope.

Czech Republic.

I frankly think the USA is doomed. Watching Congress fail and understanding how and who put Congress in their offices confirms it. It's a matter of time. USA is doomed.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:21:22 PM EDT

[#23]

The PSP would make me leave.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:27:20 PM EDT

[#24]

The only thing that could make me leave is the threat of the gov. taking my child from me.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:30:56 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Nothing, I'll dig in and fight if I have to.

This is the reason why I stay, people still have the will to do that.

To be honest though, I'm tired of road rage, rap music, douchebags, jersey shore, pissing matches from politicians, etc.

When the fight leaves Americans, I geuss I'll go somewhere else. I have living relatives in other countries. (Germany, Norway)

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:31:38 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Nothing, I'll dig in and fight if I have to.

What he said

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:33:50 PM EDT

[#27]

I'm staying to the bitter end.....which appears to be just around the bend.

I've never been a very good person....the least I can do is pay homage to the men and women who fought tooth and nail to settle this Nation (and make it the shining beacon it was for over two hundred years) by not giving up on her.

Gonna go down with the ship on this one.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:35:55 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:

Nothing, I'll dig in and fight if I have to.

This might force me to relocate....

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:36:38 PM EDT

[#29]

I have a home and business in SE Asia.

If America is worth fighting for I'll stay, but
I always have a back-up plan.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:38:20 PM EDT

[#30]

For those that are wondering, the rest of the world is pretty much the same as America, except we speak English better, beer is more expensive and pizza takes longer to get delivered.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:40:22 PM EDT

[#31]

Finding a place more friendly to individual liberty and freedom.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:40:29 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
I'm staying to the bitter end.....which appears to be just around the bend.

I've never been a very good person....the least I can do is pay homage to the men and women who fought tooth and nail to settle this Nation (and make it the shining beacon it was for over two hundred years) by not giving up on her.

Gonna go down with the ship on this one.

I'm seeing a lot of people talking about fighting to the bitter end, which is fine and good, but what if it's not necessarily a big political-type thing? What if it's personal? Still going to stay and fight? And what if winning doesn't necessarily mean winning? See what I said in my first post.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:40:46 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
For those that are wondering, the rest of the world is pretty much the same as America, except we speak English better, beer is more expensive and pizza takes longer to get delivered.

The only thing seperating The U.S. from the rest of the english speaking world is our gun laws and the freedom they represent. Without those, we might as well be England, Australia or New Zealand. Then it would be O.K to give a shit about the royals.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:44:29 PM EDT

[#34]

I ain't leaving. I've been all around the world and this place is still the best, even with our faults. Unfortunately, it appears to be waning quickly. But it won't be because I haven't tried my best to preserve what the founding fathers intended.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:46:07 PM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:
Nothing, I'll dig in and fight if I have to. when the time comes

this. (and fixed)

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:49:03 PM EDT

[#36]

I'd like to say I would dig my heels in, but I'm already abandoning Colorado in favor of Wyoming. When you see the liberal flood destroy slowly destroying everything you love, its hard not to try and find greener pastures. I'm not sure I could ever leave America though, there's nowhere else to go.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:49:10 PM EDT

[#37]

The search for truth.

According to every liberal I know, there's a marvelous Utopia out there somewhere where the birds are singing, children are holding hands, there is no hunger or suffering, evil people do not exist, and there are lollipops in everybodies stockings. There's no need for money because everything is free.....everybody contributes an equal share of their labor willingly to contribute to the common good, but the best part is nobody really has to contribute or work because in such a benevolent society those who can't/won't contribute will be taken care of. Imagine that....they found a workable solution to the ever-so-vexing problem of providing anything and everything to everyone without anybody actually having to be productive - everything just magically appears out of thin air because they wish it so.

I seek to understand how this could happen because as an ignorant conservative who's too stupid to understand such complex liberal notions, I yearn to be enlightened by a heavenly utopia driven strickly by a lack of ambition. That......and if I could catch one of their goddam unicorns and bring it home as a gift to my wife I know she'd put out. If not, I'd cook that fucker up and serve unicorn meat to the entire neighborhood.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:50:21 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

For those that are wondering, the rest of the world is pretty much the same as America, except we speak English better, beer is more expensive and pizza takes longer to get delivered.

Ummm...

I'm pretty well traveled and I'm calling BULLSHIT on that one.

ETA:

And my family has been here since the first Europeans showed up. I ain't leaving.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:52:06 PM EDT

[#39]

Nothing, will always be here.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:56:06 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:

Nothing - Dig in and Fight

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJNTfNE9ivdCkSB0kZFIf1WN2K_wDl3wrnnNQs-g_e69_KiCiY&t=1

Except it really ain't worth fighting for anymore. If freedom is to exist, the smart money is that it will come in the form of the United States becoming un-united. We're too polarized, and I don't we see eye to eye on anything anymore. If anyone in Texas knows of socialists down there, have them get in touch with me, and we'll swap houses. They can come up and live the welfare state dream, and I'll go down there, shoot my guns and eat brisket until I vomit.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:58:55 PM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Nothing - Dig in and Fight

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJNTfNE9ivdCkSB0kZFIf1WN2K_wDl3wrnnNQs-g_e69_KiCiY&t=1

Except it really ain't worth fighting for anymore. If freedom is to exist, the smart money is that it will come in the form of the United States becoming un-united. We're too polarized, and I don't we see eye to eye on anything anymore. If anyone in Texas knows of socialists down there, have them get in touch with me, and we'll swap houses. They can come up and live the welfare state dream, and I'll go down there, shoot my guns and eat brisket until I vomit.

I've got a 16 pounder smoking right now.

Posted: 4/30/2011 5:59:39 PM EDT

[#42]

Herpes. Or Derpes. Definitely herpe derpes.

Posted: 4/30/2011 6:00:28 PM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:
Herpes. Or Derpes. Definitely herpe derpes.

That's a very tiny gun, Mr. Squirrel.

Posted: 4/30/2011 6:00:32 PM EDT

[#44]

The discovery of a new livable planet and a means to get there.

Posted: 4/30/2011 6:01:02 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Nothing - Dig in and Fight

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTJNTfNE9ivdCkSB0kZFIf1WN2K_wDl3wrnnNQs-g_e69_KiCiY&t=1

Except it really ain't worth fighting for anymore. If freedom is to exist, the smart money is that it will come in the form of the United States becoming un-united. We're too polarized, and I don't we see eye to eye on anything anymore. If anyone in Texas knows of socialists down there, have them get in touch with me, and we'll swap houses. They can come up and live the welfare state dream, and I'll go down there, shoot my guns and eat brisket until I vomit.

I've got a 16 pounder smoking right now.

I'm on my way. I never even knew what brisket was until 3 years ago when I went to Texas for a wedding.

Posted: 4/30/2011 6:01:29 PM EDT

[#46]

Tough to say, but it would have to be something pretty extreme. I'd go somewhere in South/Central America or South East Asia if I had to pick... mostly just because of costs of living and climate.

My biggest gripe would be gun laws of whatever country I fled to. I'd be tempted to figure out some sly way to bring a few with me though.

The loss of freedom and relative security here would be missed. I'm not good at haggling with corrupt foreign police/gangs.

Posted: 4/30/2011 6:01:30 PM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:

Quoted:
For those that are wondering, the rest of the world is pretty much the same as America, except we speak English better, beer is more expensive and pizza takes longer to get delivered.

Ummm...

I'm pretty well traveled and I'm calling BULLSHIT on that one.

ETA:

And my family has been here since the first Europeans showed up. I ain't leaving.

Lighthearted comment is lighthearted, buddy.

Posted: 4/30/2011 6:03:58 PM EDT

[#48]

Quoted:

Quoted:

For those that are wondering, the rest of the world is pretty much the same as America, except we speak English better, beer is more expensive and pizza takes longer to get delivered.

Ummm...

I'm pretty well traveled and I'm calling BULLSHIT on that one.

ETA:

And my family has been here since the first Europeans showed up. I ain't leaving.

Lighthearted comment is lighthearted, buddy.

Sorry.

I was going to add a "unless you're joking caveat". I don't remember why I didn't.

I figured out you were kidding about 2.1 seconds after I clicked submit.