I know someone who's at their wits end with this citizenship - it's not me by the way. This is a man in his 40's who lived in a higher income zip than mine and who once held a very high paying job in hospitality management - a good deal higher on the totem pole than my job. Got cleaned out by an ex-wife in a brutal divorce - lost his kids, his house, almost all of his money due to the court directing it to his ex plus due to legal expenses. Lives in the 85006 now. He was held up downtown (a gun was part of this) pushing him over the edge into a nervous breakdown - it was like the last straw. Now he is so frustrated and has centered much of his anger around guns in the US - this seems to be his outlet though I do very much agree with his take on guns in America.
Getting to the point, he debates going to Washington DC and going from foreign embassy to foreign embassy and seeing if any country will take him due to the risk all Americans face due to guns in America.....and this is a highly educated and once successful person that wants out permanently. He's got issues other than guns going on but it's refreshing to me to see someone else who just wants out and who can see the risk to human life that guns in America represent on a brutally clear basis with no excuses or apologies and just wants out for good. I can totally understand this - to me this man has a great deal of common sense and even more, a high level of class. I hope he can get out. He's going to thrift shops these days to find things to sell online at a profit and it's not going all that well but he is slowly putting some money together to run.
I will say once again though that there are issues in play other than guns here - the phony allegations his ex wife threw around in court to see to it that he could have no contact with his kids have something to do with his wanting out of this country permanently, too and I don't blame him one bit for this but he insists it's mostly gun related. Very insightful and interesting man too - were he gay I would have found him an attractive man were I in the market - not so much for looks and certainly not due to his financial situation but due to his common sense. Common sense to me is nothing short of intoxicating.
I hope he's able to get out of America but I don't know that his chances are that good in a world with so many legitimate refugees. Think of the Rohingya - over 600,000 of them having fled from Myanmar to refugee camps in Bangladesh - to me these folks should take priority though I could not agree more with my friend here. The world really can break your heart when you get right down to it, no? Rob
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