True the people are more chill up there.
But you’re still subject to Canberra’s karenisms; can’t escape what net zero policy will do to Australian’s energy bills by moving interstate.
Discussion
Is the communism of Vietnam better than Aus karenism?
Yes, absolutely hands down.
Vietnam doesn’t have a welfare system (no NDIS rorting here) as westerners would understand it and yet ~1% poverty rate compared to Aus at 14%.
Instead they heavily subsidise energy/petrol and maintain a huge military (people have said that’s partially a jobs program but you can also understand that they want to defend themselves given their history).
Much much lower income, business and land taxes, very little regulation - it’s way more free market here which is weird to think about.
Don’t have the government here trying to displace their people with foreign labour or imposing lunatic net zero policy.
You have much less interaction with the system here and generally peoples lives are improving due to the lack of interference. Karenism seeps into every aspect of your life and brow beats you while doing so.
I'm on land away from populated areas.
You'd be surprised how little I have to do with the federal govt these days.
I'm even managing to avoid the state & local governments.
Nostr taught me the importance of my attention. I live in a blissful bubble of ignorance & my stressed out in-laws lecture me that I should watch the news. 🤣
Yeah your setup would be fine by me, I grew up in the country and prefer solitude. But my missus is a city girl and would go stir crazy in a week, she loses it when the power goes out 😂