Moving to Cuba...?

[Stand Your Ground]

Would anyone recommend moving there?

Also, why don't we flock there in mass numbers? And promote radical change there?

[Bostana]

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Sure why don't Im just pull out from my mass savings fund with thousands of dollars that each of us have and we can all start new lives in Cuba!
Sure Why the fuck not??!?!?!

[Sam_b]

Would anyone recommend moving there?

Nope.


And promote radical change there?

So let's get this straight - you also wish to colonise Cuba? Neat.

[The Douche]

Good thing the Cuban workers have you to come there and liberate them, what would they ever do without you?

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

If I lived in Angola, or Sudan, or some backwards part of Kazakhstan, perhaps. If I lived in the US, or UK, definitely not. The loss of living standards would be palpable.

[Anti-White]

I've spent several months living in Cuba (a month at a time about four times). At first I dug it even though I began noticing problems and other things but I put it out of my head. My last trip there was 2011 and I just couldn't ignore the problems any more. some shit is seriously fucked up there but I'll go back

[Blake's Baby]

Here's a bold idea - why don't you instead 'promote radical change' where you are already?

[MarxSchmarx]

Here's what it comes down to. At least where I live they don't really have the pretence of having made a revolution for the rest of us.

Is where I live (outside Cuba) any better for not doing so? Probably not. But I already have enough of the hypocrisy grating on my nerves.

[Arlekino]

I always wanted to emigrate to Venezuela any tips? Or Ecuador would be nice.

[tuwix]

I always wanted to emigrate to Venezuela any tips?

1. Learn Spanish.
2. Prepare yourself for harsh downgrading of living standard.
3. Prepare yourself for ongoing heat.
4. Think what do you want do it there; Venezuela and Ecuador are not paradise that only think to feed a citizen of so-called Western world; and Englishmen due to tensions of UK with Argentina about "Islas Malvinas" aren't the most popular nation there although definitely Americans are the least popular nation there; so the question what do you want to do there stands.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

I've spent several months living in Cuba (a month at a time about four times). At first I dug it even though I began noticing problems and other things but I put it out of my head. My last trip there was 2011 and I just couldn't ignore the problems any more. some shit is seriously fucked up there but I'll go back
what sort of things did you see out of interest? i know a person who went as a tourist and she said it was awesome but she was in the tourist district and i'd imagine the tourism bits and the real bits are very different as with most places.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

what sort of things did you see out of interest? i know a person who went as a tourist and she said it was awesome but she was in the tourist district and i'd imagine the tourism bits and the real bits are very different as with most places.

from my trip in 2010, I noticed the following:

there are obvious haves and have nots there - in terms of property, access to information/internet/possessions etc.

One woman who lived opposite to me starting exposing herself to me and asking if I wanted to sleep with her for money.

There are LOADS of hustlers (of the friendly, hanging out, non-violent kind, but will still screw you out of a few dollars) in Havana city. The male hustlers tend to get you to buy them a drink that's expensive enough for them to share the tip with the waiters also in on the act, many of the female hustlers seem to be prostitutes/escorts waiting around in the street.

Aside from these corruption/economic/social problems, there are the usual third-world country problems of lack of access to many 'basic' goods, some poor sanitation (especially in Havana city), poor infrastructure in terms of old buildings, cars and roads.

Having said that, there were no blackouts, no shortages of necessities and the cops seem genuinely popular, as do many of the national and local politicians. It's just an obvious, obvious drop in living standards from any developed nation down to Cuba, a third world capitalist social democracy, essentially.

[brigadista]

worst thing i saw in 2009 in Havana was obvious rich male sex tourism -

[Arlekino]

What standards are we talking, I am in uk not doing good with wealth. We are living inside in poverty in uk only we portending rich.

[Goblin]

Not sure if one should move there. It´s a very popular vacation spot though. My grandparents will be visiting Cuba this fall :P

[La Guaneña]

I'm trying to get a scholarship to study medicine in the ELAM. The news I get from comrades already there is not good at all.