French perspective here : Vermont sounds like one of the safest states to reside in, even in the current political climate of the US. You sound like you’re doing well financially so I wouldn’t worry for now, but maybe there are specific things that are making you reconsider, they’re valid.

France is hard to settle in, you need to be committed to learning the language and the culture. It’s very worth it but also takes time and energy, do consider that you’ll be an ocean away from your partner’s family, this might play in the long term.

If you do decide to come, I would recommend you wait until summer 2027 (presidential elections) to see how the political landscape looks like in France as well (trump-compatible-far-right has momentum currently), and make a decision based on this.

Date palm (its fruit) cut in half and peanut butter spread inside, surprisingly

Choosing means losing a little, said by a teacher in highschool when I was struggling to decide what to do after I’d graduate, still remember it 12 years later

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Good analogy haha

Social democracy

In general the political system you grow up in seems to becomes a normalcy in your mind when in reality there’s so many different ways of governing

That’s scaled for me

Yeah, do it, Seth.

It’s not illegal to just jump off the earth into space, but we’ve been told it’s dangerous out there and we can’t breathe and it’s too cold blah blah blah

But I’m pretty happy down there so I don’t feel the need to meet with the Vortigaunts past the artificial black veil our government created to isolate us from the intergalactic gerontocracy

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