#and one day I’ll form a coherent and writeable view of it all

[calves]

As a rule I dont get into internet fights but in my brain I will go to bat for my country even if I actually agree with the commenter. Repression of free speech? STFU liberal snowflake - Ridiculous and inhumane narcotics possession laws? Next to no drug problem - Can’t get gay married? That’s too bad, find another country - High pressure academic environments with worrying student suicide rate? Ok at least we’re not fking stupid

To say anything about the city I grew up in is firstly wildly ungrateful and out of touch and biting the hand that fed me so well. I get pissed off too when foreigners on the internet dare to say anything about it (city is directly equivalent to country here because it’s a 734 square kilometre island) and it surprises me because I’ve never been overly patriotic. But the prospect of living the rest of my life here and dying is also soul destroying