I’ve thought about it; but with a wife and two kids it would be difficult if not impossible to pick up and move somewhere else and start all over.
(Consider coming to Germany, we need People q_q)
Or Russia after Putin no longer in power. You can come before, but wait before getting citizenship.
I’m not gonna pretend it’s easy, but it is doable if you really want to.
The missus moved here with her child a few years ago. Uprooted everything and started over.
Good luck wherever you end up!
Same, except:
“Wish George Carlin” ↑ needed more work
A few years ago I had to get picked up by an ambulance, and got to pay $500 for the privilege.
That was the cost with insurance, and my job actually has pretty good insurance…
A few years ago I had to get picked up by an ambulance, and got to pay $500 for the privilege.
Under capitalism there are no freedoms, only privileges.
how much did your insurance cover? I mean ambulances are free where I live, but it would be excusable if it costs like 600$ (don’t get me wrong, that’s still terrible)
I don’t have the invoice anymore but I think it said it was around $1300
That’s a little less than what my primary charged my insurance for an office visit in 2022. Including $200 for a mental health screening that, offense intended to the well known institution that runs the office, was worthless and unnecessary because I’ve already received actual professional help for that and I know what it looks like, thanks.
A friend of mine recently had to call an ambulance and he had to pay 3k. He has insurance.
If I have a heart attack, I’ll be calling an uber first
True story. I have delivered to the ER no less than two people having a heart attack in an Uber while I worked driving Uber. Both of them literally said the same thing, that it was too expensive for an ambulance and it was much cheaper for an Uber. The second one we even pulled up next to an ambulance and the guy hollered out the window and the ambulance said we can’t do anything. You just need to follow us to the hospital.
That people normalize this is maddening.
You mean, commiserate?
I said what I said.
It’s not normalized and it is madness
You’re making that up, right?
This is from an 80s movie about a distopian future (like RoboCop or Total Recall), right!?I mean, do you stop at red lights in that situation? You probably have to… Do you keep the speed limit and have some small talk with the guy fighting for his life, while you sit in traffic?
“How’s that heart attack treatin’ ya back there?”
“Checkout my mixtape!” turns up volume
If you know how to yell and shout to get your way, then you should come to Sweden! Välkommen, min vän!
Its all good. Just coast until retirement, healthcare system is soooooo good to the elderly. Last 5 years of your life sleeping on a plastic hospital mattress eating mashed potatoes 7 days a week.
Nothing will change until we burn it all down.
Come to europe. The pay might be worse, but your benefits will be better. I would recommend germany but that is only my bias as a citizen. Maybe could visit some major cities and choose what fits you best. Language will not be a huge issue (alteast where i live), i personally know people who get by here by only speaking english.
Your country doesn’t want us, unless they’re going to take political asylum seekers while maintaining 38 of our military installations there. I don’t guess that’s in the cards.
I mean you are right i that i do not know how hard it is to come here. I guess you would need a job offer and some work visa? I just know that we need loads of working people. It is easier if you are persecuted, but that also makes sense, right? So political asylum seekers are taken but are you one?
The US doesn’t have a problem that would qualify people for Asylum yet. But man is it going to be wild when hundreds of thousands of Americans are fleeing the Christian Taliban.
Let us hope that i does not come to that even if it might feel too optimistic.
Boeing employees, Snowden.
Unless you’re Russia, running away with a bunch of secret documents doesn’t qualify you for asylum. And I’m not sure anyone is looking to get out of a dangerous country and into the war in Ukraine. At that point I think they’d just go volunteer with Ukraine.
Conclusion from your reply:
Running away with USA mass surveilance classified documents: no asylum
Running away with Roscomnadzor mass surveilance classified documents: yes asylum
Lmao the point is the US and Russia will always take defectors in from the other country.
You’re too kind and thank you, here’s actual future footage of me moving to Europe (or new Zealand):
Can you help me with my pimple?
Reality check: New Zealanders are leaving New Zealand in record numbers.
Probably lots of places have record leaving numbers. We have record-high population.
We must build a wall around Europe, so that Americans can’t come here. When America sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re bringing guns. They’re bringing GMC trucks. They’re racists. And some, I assume, are good people.
Can I bring just a little one? A taste? Just as a sometimes treat!
It is not that easy. Unless you have a very in demand skill US citizen cannot simply move to any EU country.
You can show up in any country on a tourist visa then work in restaurants, try and enroll in school or figure out how to kick it til you get residency. It is not impossible, That’s how everyone in my family (around 45 people) moved from Iran to the US and Europe over the past 40 years
Congrats btw!
“Switching to Linux is like moving to Canada”
Every time Americans are assigned a Republican president, the amount of Americans entitled to seek asylum elsewhere ticks up again.
damn, so this is how i get the ultimate linux user badge?
Do it. Few hours on a plane, affordable healthcare.
Easy peasy.
High-stakes conspiracies: US healthcare is intentionally broken by the foreign medical tourism industry which runs it
That’s usually a thing for the fourties though?
Don’t forget that life expectancy is much lower in the states, a 30yo American is as worn out as a 40 yo European
Seriously? I know that some jobs (like construction worker) make a difference, but…
Diet and exercise make a difference too. Most Americans eat a lot more calorific food and walk/cycle a lot less.
Ah right, corn sirup in bread and all.
Just the bread? Lol
It’s more like “hey look there’s food particles in my corn syrup! I got lucky!”
I wasn’t gonna factcheck some banter on a meme community but yeah, the disparity is lower :)
typically in your 40s you have deep roots in your community and family obligations so its harder to bounce.
Maybe back in the fifties ?
I know it’s Reddit but there’s a good resource with this sub…
come in action and to demand better.
I’ll tell you more, real estate cost cheaper in EU and if you buy 500k+ one and live few years in it, then you’ll get citizenship of that country, plus free healthcare of course
Healthcare is not free, it is included in your taxes.
yeah and neither is public education, yet most people here consider it to be free to the individual, unless it’s a charter school, in which case it makes money because it’s actually a tax loophole apparently.
Free as in freedom
That’s not really how anything works.
Look up most of EU immigration programs, in most countries of EU there’s choice of buying real estate, apartment, house, or whatever, some countries like Greece requires 250k+ some countries like Spain and Portugal 500k+ , what I’m trying to say, you can buy real estate with price higher than minimal requirement by country, live few years there, get citizenship and all perks it gives, if you don’t believe me then look it up yourself
real estate certainly isn’t cheaper in the eu, except you only count new york real estate prices
TIL California and Hawaii don’t exist.
“Real estate certainly isn’t cheaper in the eu, except you only count new york, Hawaii, or california real estate prices.”
There you go I fixed it and the statement still applies.
The hilarious thing is, in the movie that very same guy got run over and then he sued for a ton of money which allowed him to retire. The American dream!
I thought he got money because he took the money the other guys were skimming.
Wrong guy. Milton stole the money as he was burning the building down, Tom (this guy) was going to unalive himself in the garage, his wife caught him, and then got hit by a drunk driver when he pulled out of the garage to make it look like he wasn’t trying to unalive himself.
(Before anyone says it, I know I’m on Lemmy and don’t need to use “unalive,” but it’s habit now from the dark places…)
