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@Remittancegirl I am a white affluent Hungarian living in Estonia. When (and ever since) I decided to leave my increasingly autocratic and repressive home country I have pondered the same: am I coward, for leaving, when I should be staying and fighting the regime? Ultimately, no satisfying conclusions here, either. On the one hand, when I left it was clear I was powerless to do anything more than showing up to vote every four years — why the regime had an outsized power over me, if I stayed (and I did not want to further legitimize and support it through my taxes paid on well-paying international tech jobs). I also didn't feel the rising tide of disenfranchised Hungarians rising up against the system; it feels like a sort of prisoners dilemma: it's hard to justify staying and fighting if you feel alone in that determination, which of course weakens the resistance even further.