Americans pride themselves on living in the best country in the world. However‚ the American way of life isnt for everyone and some prefer the more laid-back approach to life that people enjoy in Europe.Four years ago‚ a writer named Roze left her tiny apartment in Los Angeles‚ booked a one-way flight to Turn‚ Italy and never looked back. Now‚ she documents her new life in Europe on TikTok to inspire others to pursue their dreams.Recently‚ she posted a video in which she counts down 5 things that shell never do now that she lives in Italy. These are examples of the relief some Americans feel when they move to Europe and settle into their new‚ stress-free lifestyle.1. Rush";One of the first things that attracted me to Italian culture is the fact that people don';t seem to be in a rush. There are no drive-thrus. People don';t walk and eat. If you need a coffee‚ you sit down and drink a cup of coffee. There';s always time for that.";2. Own a car";I don';t plan on ever living in a place where you need a car to get around. I dont like the expense of a car and its just bad for the environment.3. Live for workIll never obsess about work as much as I used to do in the U.S. Now‚ I';m not saying that people don';t work here. People work very hard‚ but there';s not as many people who make working hard their whole personality.";@rozeinitalyA few ways my perspective has changed since moving abroad‚ maybe some other American immigrants can relate? #fivethingschallenge #5thingsiwouldneverdo #5thingschallenge #americanimmigrant #movingabroadtips #expatsinitaly #italylifestyle #lifeinitaly4. Trust the internet for business hours";If you look it up on Google Maps‚ it says that it';s open from 10 am to‚ I think‚ 7 or 7:30 pm. Does that mean I can go there at like 2:30 3 o';clock? No. What is not listed on there is that they are closed from 1 to 4 for lunch.";5. Worry about medical billsI just dont plan on living anywhere where there is not some kind of universal healthcare.

When the 2022 Dobbs decision overturned the federal protection of medical privacy in reproductive decisions‚ leaving abortion law up to the states‚ experts warned of the legal and medical consequences to come: People in states with old laws on the books would find themselves facing abortion restrictions the likes of which had not been seen in over 50 years since Roe vs. Wade became ";settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court‚"; and medical providers would face legal conundrums that threatened patient care.Nearly two years later‚ we';ve seen the fallout on multiple fronts‚ from women suing states for denying them medically necessary care to children who have been raped and impregnated being forced to travel across state lines to get an abortion. And the latest development has Arizona set to enact a near-total abortion ban based on a 1864 legal code‚ after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that the law ";it is now enforceable."; Here';s what to know about the 160-year-old law:There is only one abortion exception allowed for in the lawto save the life of the mother. As medical providers have made clear‚ that kind of exception is a murky gray area that leads to impossible questions like ";How imminent does a mother';s death need to be?"; for a doctor to take action without fearing legal repercussions. Civil War-era historian Heather Cox Richardson shared some of the details about how the law came about and the context in which it was written on Facebook‚ and the historical facts paint a picture of how utterly absurd it is for the law to go into effect in 2024. ";In 1864‚ Arizona was not a state‚ women and minorities could not vote‚ and doctors were still sewing up wounds with horsehair and storing their unwashed medical instruments in velvet-lined cases‚"; wrote Richardson. She pointed out that the U.S. was in the midst of the Civil War‚ and that the law didn';t actually have much to do with women and reproductive care.";The laws for Arizona Territory‚ chaotic and still at war in 1864‚ appear to reflect the need to rein in a lawless population of men‚"; she explained‚ sharing that the word ";miscarriage"; was used in the criminal code to describe various forms of harm against another person‚ specifying dueling with‚ maiming and poisoning other people. Richardson offered that detail as the context in which the law states that ";a person who provides‚ supplies or administers to a pregnant woman‚ or procures such woman to take any medicine‚ drugs or substance‚ or uses or employs any instrument or other means whatever‚ with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage of such woman‚ unless it is necessary to save her life‚ shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than two years nor more than five years.";How did the law even come about? At that time‚ the newly formed Arizona Territorial Legislature was composed of 27 men. The first thing they did was authorize the governor to appoint a commissioner to draft a code of laws‚ but a judge named William T. Howell had already written one up. After some discussion‚ the legislators enacted Howell';s laws‚ known as ";The Howell Code.";The code included laws like‚ ";No black or mulatto‚ or Indian‚ Mongolian‚ or Asiatic‚ shall be permitted to give evidence in favor of or against any white person‚"; as well as ";All marriages of white persons with negroes or mulattoes are declared to be illegal and void.";Richardson also pointed out that the code set the age of consent for sexual intercourse at 10-years-old.Arizona wasn';t admitted to the union until 1912 (@) Essentially‚ a law written by one man‚ 48 years before Arizona was officially a state‚ over half a century before women were allowed to vote‚ when it was perfectly legal to enact and enforce racist laws and see 10-year-olds as old enough to consent to sex‚ is now considered ";enforceable"; by the Arizona Supreme Court. As Richardson pointed out‚ the difference now is that women can vote. And Americans have proven time and again that draconian abortion laws are wildly unpopular across the political spectrum. Even some Republican lawmakers and politicians are flip-flopping on previous praise for the 1864 law‚ saying that the Arizona legislature needs to do something about the law to prevent it from taking effect.

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