#America


Good pay
Bigger Houses
Free internet
Not an ethnostate
Nice/open people
Nice Nature
Public Respect (somewhat)
While the chances are low, shootings and police/ICE violence is not 0%
Universities, really good if not best (as an academic)
#China
Clean, Major cities are clean but more polluted and trashed than other two
Ethnostate, forever an outsider
Increasingly difficult internet.
Nice/open people
Safe Society
Universities, pretty mid to bad at best unless its top
#Japan
Cleanest
Ethnostate, forever an outsider, but not being stared at or random photos like in China
Free internet
Nice Nature
Public Trust
Public Respect
Safe Society
Universities, pretty mid to bad at best unless its top three


I feel forever trapped between these three countries with family, languages, culture, and religion. Very lost on which to pursue for my career. A recent trip to China has made me very much feel not China. I cannot stand the staring, photo taking making me feel like I’m a zoo animal, even more so for my child. But it is nice and pay can be decent. I also really like Chinese people and culture.


America has a lot of good, but I’m so sick of having to be stressed about its politics and the culture of violence. I do love the nature, individual freedom, and academic (tho the recent not being able to comment on Israel has been insane).


Japan is great on the surface but subtle racism, bad pay, and trump-copy cat prime minister is concerning. Committing to China or especially Japan over the US is fucking my family financially if we want to visit family in the other two countries.

Universities, really good if not best (as an academic)



What are you talking about?

The reality that US universities are better than most I’ve worked and studied in. Chinese and Japanese ones are barely comparable.