This has been going since I was born in the Poconos. I was in High School before the dress codes.

Grew up there. Vowed never to move back. 38 degrees and over an 1" of rain is not a winter I want to be part of. 10 degrees and 1-2' of storms is what I'm after.

So thus I live near the artic cicle now.

Having fresh water is huge. CA and the SW isn't the only region drying out.

God.damn.right.

There's organizations working towards reforestation in Scotland. An interesting take is Norway has similar problems with farmland taking away old growth, while also being at such a northern latitude.

But in the last century much progress was made there (norway) in reforestation, so there is a frame work for Scotland to do the same.

The deer problem there is also exasperated by their Hunting regulations. It boils down to not having public hunting grounds (hunting isn't included in their right to roam law as far as I'm aware). So private estates that hold huge swaths of land basically hord all the Stags and charge $$$$$$ to anyone who wants to shoot them. So unless your extremely wealthy, you ain't culling the herd.

Met my wife in the dorms, she was an international student. From my experiences and conversations the gun issue is a big one.

Immigration is also broken, we abandoned our K-1 (I-129F) since the processing times have only gotten longer. When we applied it was 10 months, now it's 15, if we kept our petition it would likely be 2 years till we could legally get married.

Every Immigration form is a depressing thread after another about people being separated for indefinite amounts of time, loss of jobs, missing funerals and life events. It's soul crushing to say the least. Pandemic and that evil orange bastards admin left LONG lasting impacts that will be felt for years. Loss of talent is an understatement, I'm a engineer and I left a cirital role due to this.