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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
      911·
      24 天前

      You don’t need a ton of money to do so if you’re unskilled labor, and basically only a plane ticket if you’re skilled labor. Contact people in perspective countries and ask about it. Japan is great if you want to start a small business, especially if it brings in USD. Vietnam is great if you want to be a white face for an english school, China is great if you have a degree in teaching, I’ve a couple friends who went to Germany (not from the US tho) for nursing and IDK what else.

      • innermachine@lemmy.world
        6·
        23 天前

        This sounds like something that somebody who has literally never moved in their life would say. You need money just to move across states nevermind continents, trust me I have lived in 7 different states and 2 different European countries.

        • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
          2·
          23 天前

          You need a plan for the amount of money you have, which can be quite low. I’ve lived in several Asian countries.

        • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
          32·
          23 天前

          If you meant China or Vietnam, a dictatorship of the working class is different from a dictatorship of capital.

          If you meant Japan, yeah things aren’t looking great, but at least LDP is opposing the even-further-right parties?

          If you meant Germany, after 5 years or so of working, you qualify for citizenship and can go elsewhere in the EU, which should be enough time to get out before AfD takes over.

          • sprack@lemmy.world
            3·
            22 天前

            Looks like it will soon be 8yrs and no option for dual citizenship. You also need native speakers help to navigate the bureaucracy. AfD will add more impediments.

  • smeg@infosec.pubEnglish
    532·
    24 天前

    🙋‍♂️ I left in 2025. It’s great! Walkable and bikeable cities, affordable groceries, my health insurance actually pays for stuff, there’s public transit, the food is safer, and not absolutely every I do funnels into only 12 companies.

    I moved my family. When my kid needs higher education, it won’t cost more than our home. I can send him out in the streets without worrying he’ll be hit by a truck going 80. Active shooter or intruder drills aren’t a phenomenon in his school.

    I only wish we could have done it sooner.

        • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          23 天前

          I was watching a show called Pernille the other week, takes place in Norway, and I thought her youngest daughter was 14/15. She was 12 and walking all over the place. That freedom is just something the States doesnt have. my Son is 12, if I let him walk to the store (crossing a busy 45mph+ road) the cops could get called on me.

          • innermachine@lemmy.world
            1·
            23 天前

            I used to bike or skateboard everywhere when I was that age, why do people think this isn’t possible in the USA? I drive almost everywhere now (why would I pedal when I can twist a throttle? 😉) but still regularly see middle school kids walking or biking around town. Maybe it’s just certain areas or people reading too much fear mongering news.

          • smeg@infosec.pubEnglish
            1·
            23 天前

            My kid is 11 and gets to bike to school, or walk to music lessons or the store whenever. It’s pretty cool

          • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
            2·
            23 天前

            Where they started Nunya Business, which is obscenely wealthy. However, there’s a fantastic opportunity where they need an enterprising foreigner like yourself to agree to handle a bank transfer processing fee and hold on to all their assets before the government takes it all and. . .

  • kurmudgeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    24 天前

    I wish I could as well. I’d be out of here in a heartbeat. I’m already single, live alone, work remotely in the tech sector. It would be nothing for me to pick up and leave. It’s just not that easy to be able to move to a different country.

      • kurmudgeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        23 天前

        I remember last time I checked, my score was only like 350 which is far below what you need to be considered for permanent residency in Canada. Canada would be my country of choice in this situation.

          • kurmudgeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            23 天前

            No, they have a system of ranking you where they weigh all kinds of aspects of your life. Do you know French? Do you have relatives in Canada? Have you ever worked for anybody in Canada? Did you go to school in Canada? Etc. Based on these answers you get a score. I only scored a 350. I think the minimum is like 600. The highest is 1200.