I was exaggerating about the tyranny part of it a little, but South Korea. Until the 1990s or so they effectively were a dictatorship, and even now there are a lot of rights that they don't have by law that Americans have, but if you look at the actual situation they're sending their corrupt politicians to jail, while our corrupt judges and prosecutors are sending innocent men to jail for stuff like hate crimes, so it works out to be a lot more similar than it looks if you just read the laws. Of course, in countries like that everything can change in an instant, as the Europeans are finding out, but I really did feel in a lot of ways that I was more free living there than I am in America.
[–] lanre ago
I was exaggerating about the tyranny part of it a little, but South Korea. Until the 1990s or so they effectively were a dictatorship, and even now there are a lot of rights that they don't have by law that Americans have, but if you look at the actual situation they're sending their corrupt politicians to jail, while our corrupt judges and prosecutors are sending innocent men to jail for stuff like hate crimes, so it works out to be a lot more similar than it looks if you just read the laws. Of course, in countries like that everything can change in an instant, as the Europeans are finding out, but I really did feel in a lot of ways that I was more free living there than I am in America.
[–] toobaditworks ago
Is it expensive to live there?