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?

  • hubobes@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Not really. I live in Switzerland, thing is, there are no countries that surpass it in terms of safety, income, social security and political stability combined. For me at least it is the perfect country to live in.

  • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I really love Belgium. It’s a criminally underrated country with a silly culture and a pretty fun vibe.

    The bad news is that I’m Moroccan, and not just any Moroccan, a QUEER Moroccan (even more specifically, an aroace gender non-conforming Moroccan man), meaning basically everyone hates me.

    I need to get the visa which takes forever to get and I have a chance of getting denied.

    Right wing politicians in the country are basically super racist and really hate the immigrants so much (most of the bad apples are second generation folks that literally act like they’re having a stroke, even Moroccans hate them).

    Housing is expensive basically everywhere. People in Belgium are pretty introverted (just like me), meaning they basically don’t care of my presence, but it’s much harder to make friends.

    Everyone I know actively discourages moving there because they only know Brussels and… the snooze festival that is Charleroi or something, but they’ve never heard of Ghent or Hasselt or Bruges or Liège or Antwerpen (truly amazing cities) so they’re basically untrustworthy.

    I’m so disconnected from the country I live in that I genuinely don’t feel Moroccan and want to get rid of my citizenship (spoiler alert: it’s quite literally impossible). But is it really easy to convince people? Actually, my family gets very mad when I say this because they’re super patriotic and shit.

    I don’t even practice religion. I’ve never cared about it. I do believe in God, but I really lack that spirituality and whatnot that would make me “religious”. But unfortunately everyone would wanna kill me for apostasy.

    I could go on, but we’d be here all day. Basically, I hate my country so much and I just want out so bad.

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    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.

  • TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I live in the PNW of Canada. It’s expensive, but I love it here and wouldn’t move unless I absolutely had to.

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      2 months ago

      I love that everyone else here is saying they’d move to Canada. I also live in the PNW and as much as I hate how expensive it is, I do not see myself wanting to go anywhere else. Somewhere else in the province? Maybe. But it’s fucking beautiful here and I’m not gonna pretend it’s not.

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    2 months ago

    I mean, I did. Highly recommend. Spoiler alert almost all the non-USA people places a multinational company would offer to post you don’t have guns

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    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.

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      2 months ago

      God you sound like the most ghastly “expat” and the reason people have a dim view of yanks lol

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    2 months ago

    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

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      2 months ago

      I’d take a little canal boat in Amsterdam. Though learning Dutch sounds like a PITA.