I would have left already if it wasn’t that I have kids in college to support and would like to see on the holidays without spending an arm and a leg to fly then here. My spouse also doesn’t want to leave but she is slowly coming around so hopefully in 4-5 years I’ll be leaving for some tropical beach or european car-independent heaven and never looking back.
if i had a phd in specialty i wouldve been gone already. plus for everyone else you need to know the lay of the country you are in, getting a job, a place to rent out, learning the local culture and language, how to transfer your USD to a countries currencies.
when u want to move but you’re autistic with severe anxiety 😭
I’d love to move and could probably swing it but I have a lot of pets that cannot cross the country. I have made a lifetime commitment to them so until they pass I will not leave. When I do will be to Japan or Uruguay. I have no problem learning languages quickly. I just can’t leave these animals behind.
What’s your plan to get into Japan? It’s not a place that likes immigration.
they do like white westerners though, especially the ones that have money, or they are married toa japanese spouse. im guessing if you’re an asian, you can blend in more easier.
To visit. Immigrating is a whole other thing - this BBC retrospective paints a pretty clear picture in the section about the village. I remember reading an account of somebody that’s been going to the same corner store run by the same guy for decades, but who still gets followed around because “foreigners commit crime”.
Looking Asian might make it worse if anything, because Japan has less than awesome relations with other Asian countries, and some of them come with a poverty stigma.
you’re one of the good ones
FYI the USA is one of the very few asshole counties that tax expats. Yes there is a 110k exemption, but still it’s such asshole behavior.
I forgot which other countries did it, but it was just a handful.
What are they going to do if you don’t pay?
dont go back to the USA i guess, its not like they are going to extradite a non-payer that is earning income form another country.
I don’t know, I’m sure they’ll fuck with you unless you are rich enough to lawyer them a middle finger
I will not run from my country. I will remain here and be a problem to the opposition by existing aka an enemy to the regime of an administration.
And just because I continue to live here, does not mean I accept everything they do.
It’s either that or become an unwanted immigrant with no support. I feel this 100%.
Would if I could, but I can’t, so I won’r.
My problem is that I love the state/region I live in, but large swathes of the rest of the country are a risk to my life and my age, skills, and minority status don’t make me appealing from an immigration standpoint, let alone that many places have just as much of an issue with people like me as the Republicans do.
I’d like too but I don’t think it’s a possibility. I don’t have the money or the skills.
Agreed love to get fuck out of this capitalist, dictatorship, but where can we go? Love to live in Iceland.
It’s spreading everywhere. I noticed a year ago my buddy in India was talking about it on a Spotify interview. Apparently, non-caucasian cultures are having the same problems with division and authoritarianism. Also, dissenters are being treated very poorly there now.
Already left and in Europe but in a bit of a grey area with residency between two countries here. Doing my best to get sorted more permanently and to stop sending my tax money to the US and instead send it to one of the two governments (whoever is willing to let us continue as a family to live).
It was stressful and expensive over the last year+ but wife and I are both in high risk categories for detention, persecution, and possible separation from our new baby in the US, so not much choice. We are liquidating assets there which is not good for our financial future but hopefully we aren’t too old to rebuild stability in Europe somewhere, or failing that, the Philippines where we have much better residency privileges.
I uprooted my life and left. It’s far too dangerous for me. I’m a trans latina. I grieve over the friends and community I left behind daily
Born/raised in the US but I also have Swedish citizenship and I’ve lived there as an adult. My American girlfriend is spending a lot of time learning Swedish and we expect that we’ll move there sometime in the next few years.
I’m getting the fuck out as soon as I am able
good luck to you bro
It must be nice to have the privilage to immigrate to wherever you want lol.
I mean I wasn’t even supposed to be here. It’s only pure chance that my family had relatives in the US. Less than 5% of Chinese live abroad, so… like imagine you ask a question like: “How many of you are actually fine with living in China”
I mean the wording implies that people living there are automatically supportative of the government or something.
Moving is hard, pal.
I had the advantage of being a child and learning English; now as an adult, I’d struggle learning French, German, or Norweigian.
It must be nice to have the privilage to immigrate to wherever you want lol.
Really they don’t. The only group that can switch countries painlessly is the super rich, and even then it’s not universal - some don’t want foreigners regardless of how much money they bring.
You can do it. I learned Norwegian as an old man. Well, enough to get by. I still struggle, but it is possible.
Do people actually let you speak it, or do they just reply in English?
Depends. In some settings people switch to English the moment they realize English would get to the meat more quickly. But in others, people actually not only allow me but push me out of my comfort zone. That is very helpful.
I’m in my 40s and learning Norwegian (roughly 75 days in spending maybe 30 minutes a day on average). It’s actually pretty easy. If you’ve never studied a Germanic language outside of English, you might have some word order issues to get used to, but that, so far, has been about it.
If I had the money to I’d leave in a heart beat.
