I Was Unsafe In Brazil, I Am Still Unsafe In The UK

Because First World Countries Don’t Exist Anymore, At Least The UK Doesn’t Belong To The List.

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I have lots of reasons to be grateful for my life in the UK. It was here that I got my dream job working for magazines, and here I met my lovely partner, but still, the UK I was hoping to live in is not the UK I live in. I also need to add that I am extremely grateful for being on benefits when I was unemployed, but again, I always paid my taxes correctly, and it was my right as a UK resident.

The main reason that made me leave Brazil was the violence, how unsafe I felt to do things on my own during the day and at night, but I feel the same “unsafety” here in the UK, but still not so much during the day, and for sure at night.

It was also because I wasn’t happy with my life in Brazil without the perspective of having a better future both professionally and in my love life. So I guess I made it.

I achieved two things that I didn’t have when I was in Brazil, a full-time job as a writer and a healthy relationship with my lovely partner. It’s still unbelievable to me that I couldn’t get a job writing in my mother tongue and that I also could never find a good boyfriend there, and both because of racism.