Well you must have got straight off Discord and to writing, way to start.

Quite a life-story, I'm not surprised that accident caused you some trauma - just crashing my car 2 days after my test (no injuries even) put me right off driving for life, I'm only just now starting to enjoy driving again 30 years later.

Your friends and family are just guilt-tripping you - just keep stating the facts and don't rise to it, you are definitely better off out of that country.

With any luck there won't be an America left to be patriotic about in 10 years anyway - it will defederalise, I've long thought of America as several regions rather than one country anyway.

Good news that Michel and his family are recovering!

Good to see you back!