So another thread ( https://lemmy.world/post/17746018 ) got me wondering… How many people would want to move to another country?
Just to provide a concrete scenario, let’s assume that in your current country you (magically) have a decent-ish job. They open up offices in another country of your choosing, and you have the option of moving there and work for an equivalent living wage.
They’re able to get visas set up (however improbable that may be) for you and any family, but you have to go through the process of finding housing, physically moving your belongings and anything else you need to set up.
What countries would you take the offer to move to, if any?
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I’d take an offer to work from home on a house boat and go sailing around the world I feel like I’d end up making a lot of new customs officer friends XD
I’d take a little canal boat in Amsterdam. Though learning Dutch sounds like a PITA.
It is. Our grammar rules are nonsensical and Dutch is useless outside of the Netherlands and Belgium.
It’s probably the easiest language for a native English speaker to learn
You probably picture that as a cheap bohemian lifestyle but these things will cost you like 2M€ to buy + untold yearly fees lol.
That’s significantly more than I expected. Also, I probably wouldn’t want to deal with the toilet situation. Would probably be novel for a couple weeks and get old quick.
Did a quick check and yeah I was massively exaggerating, you can get some in the 600k to 1.3M€ for small ones with mooring in the center, which is still pretty unaffordable for normal people but not as outlandish as I made it out to be. The points about additional costs to the city and the mortgage stuff remains though.
I might be slightly exaggerating depending on how big it is and location but yeah everything in Amsterdam is crazy expensive. The toilet situation is pretty normal these days I think? I think they get plugged into the normal sewer systems, the days of it just falling into the canals are long gone (but that’s also a part of the yearly expenses along with mooring costs, property taxes and so on). Also you can’t even mortgage these things normally because banks consider them high risk so you get less advantageous terms (higher costs, bigger down payment, etc).
I haven’t given up on being a stick in the mud keeping Austin a little different from other parts of Texas. The loudest idiots in this state rebuke Austin as something un-Texan, but I’m not going anywhere and am continuing to live and vote the way I do. I know it’s a little easier for me to say this, not having to worry about kids, so I don’t expect others to make the same choice, even if they feel the same way.
I don’t know how.
If you want to keep living like a slave you can try a 1st world country, if you want to find out how much shit you can buy with some dollars move to a third world country.
Personally I moved to a third world country and I’m doing pretty fine, you can always spend in some extra security and you should be fine.
USDs can do a lot of shit when you move to an America worshipping country.
Edit: According to the premise of your first post I suppose you are talking about someone who it’s already a slave in the US, if you doesn’t have any debt and you are making good money I suppose you are capable to move to any country.
WO mention even natives treat you better if you are American, IDK I believe they have seen too much Hollywood shit or whatever.
Avoid any communist country btw they don’t like Americans.
God you sound like the most ghastly “expat” and the reason people have a dim view of yanks lol
My fault I forget to mention I just care about real stuff, whatever someone else think(in their own head) about me I don’t give a flying fuck.
Yes, precisely
I always wanted to move to Sweden. My grandfather was born there and I have always loved visiting.
It was a nice country but it’s getting poor and has many problems now due to unlimited immigration the last few decades. Much violence and murders now.
The classic Sweden that I grew up in is gone. But it’s still better than USA of course. If you avoid the big cities, it’s still a bit like it used to be though.
The best country in the Nordics is now Norway I would say.
Israeli, I’ve been considering this for several years but the impact on the family seemed too big. Since the war with Gaza, and the the political situation, the impact seems with it. Last week I’ve started looking for options.
So, for context - I live in Scotland and I guess I feel a cultural connection with being Scottish. I even have a domain with a .scot tld.
But at the same time… I know the UK is kind of slipping back in terms of social issues - starting to feel like a “mini US” than a state with european standards.
So yeah, I’m torn between staying here and moving to some as of yet unknown country with better rights…
Although, since I basically never travel and nothing is really infringing my freedom (yet …), I’ll probably not actually do anything even if I wanted to.
Love Scotland and the Scots (one of my best mates is one, and I visited many times), but it has the unfortunate flaw of being part of the UK indeed… I guess the obvious option that is similar-ish without having that flaw is Ireland, but personally living in the Netherlands I’m only really considering a move if it’s to somewhere truly different (tropical, etc).
I live in Finland. Wouldn’t mind a less wintery climate but not to the point of willing to move elsewhere.
Wanna swap? I’ll come enjoy the snow, you can come to the UK and enjoy the, uh, rain.
It’s not the winter wonderland many foreigners think it is, unless you go to Lapland. Most of the winter is just wet, cold, dark, slippery, and absolutely miserable. It’s dark when you leave for work and it’s dark when you get back home.
Ngl sounds good to me. I like it cold and dark. Did I mention I’m a mole?
Yeah sounds awesome to me too tbh. My mood brightens whenever I see snow and I don’t find that low sunlight levels affect me at all.
However apparently between 1-10% of people are affected by seaonal affective disorder so those people may want to avoid Finland during the winter months
My wife’s sister found she has SAD when she moved to sweden. One of her kids has it too. They cope with the lights and the , well, the understanding they’re gonna be affected. They seem to suggest that it’s not rare there, and that its frequency makes it more acceptable and understandable. It’s okay to be super-down for a few days on a bad wave, and people seem to get it.
So, Chicago? Except I bet your winters are a bit longer than they are in Chicago.
I think that hardest part wouldn’t be adjusting to the winter–I’m actually pretty okay with the kind of winter you describe–but the language. I hear that Finnish is very challenging for most people to learn to speak with any degree of fluency, unless they’re raised with it.
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I’ve done that, I think I’ve found my place.
Yes!
My friend and I are actually planning to start taking trips to find which country we want to live in later on (we’re both single/childless). We’ve been looking around Europe and Southeast Asia.
I’m an American, so yes - in a heartbeat.
Broadly, I wouldnt much care where it was, just so long as it was somewhere that was not being actively transfomed into a plutocratic/christofascist autocracy.
And in fact, there’s virtually nothing that I want more at this point in time than to get the hell out while I can. I fully expect that if I don’t, I’m going to end up in prison or dead, just like so many other vocal dissidents under so many other authoritarian regimes.
Same af. We may even be cell mates, you never know. But then again, I’m a mouthy fucker so probably more likely to be the dead body next to you.
^the new American Dream
I would 100% pack up and move to either Finland or New Zealand, but that’s about it. Unfortunately, both of them have exceptionally long quarantine times for animals, and I have multiple cats.
According to this page there is no quarantine in Finland, you just have to wait a specified time after vaccinating your cats:
I’ve only been to Helsinki, and only in the summer. It was lovely but I couldn’t really say if it makes sense to live there. My wife’s best friend is Finnish and is a bit mad, like every other Finn that I’ve ever met. So… good luck!
I wish lol… I’d love to go somewhere not often considered. maybe Bulgaria or Kyrgyzstan. would be cool to see real world life there.
The list of countries I’d move to is actually longer than ones I wouldn’t want to move to.
