QotD: Get Me Outta Here
If you could teleport to any place in the world right this second, where would you go?
America! No question. I plan to move out of Australia as soon as I finish university, in any case, hopefully to America. I know, I know, those of you who live in America are probably giving me weird looks and thinking "Geez, why the hell would you want to move to America? Our healthcare system sucks, our president sucks, half our population is idiotic, most of the world hates us... etc etc."
But the fact of the matter is, even though Australia's a pretty cool place to live? There are two major problems. The first being that it's incredibly isolated, the second being that it's not really the place you want to be if you want to go into any major artistic industry. How many Australian actors that've made it bigtime can you name off the top of your head? Not nearly as many as American, I'll bet. And how many of those that you named moved to Hollywood before they found their fame? Probably quite a few, you'll find. It's the same principle. There's simply no industry for it here. End of story. How many successful Australian singers are there? How many on-going comics do you think get written and published in Australia? How many successful fashion lines do you think were born in Australia? Yeah, that's right.
Hell, maybe I'll change my mind in four year's time. But for now, my goal is to finish uni and then get the hell out of here.
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