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Even in the best of times, the United States is a country that requires a background level of stress and paranoia to live in. You realize that when you move to another developed country where you don’t have to lock your door or wonder whether the next person you meed is armed, mentally unstable or up to no good.
Even before this whole fascist shitshow got started in 2001, I considered the US a lost cause that’s not really worth fighting for. Dubya and the USA Patriot Act was the thing that finally pushed me to leave.
I only have a finite number of hours on this dirtball and I fully intend to spend them as best I can with my family and my children, and offer them a good life. I don’t have time to fight for lost causes.
It’s a choice ultimately. Emigration isn’t for everybody. If you want to stay and try to make America better, more power to you. I just want people to know that life is sweeter elsewhere.
How have you navigated the visa and residency issues? I’d like to settle somewhere and stay, but in a lot of the places I’m considering residency and a path to citizenship are potentially challenging.
In many countries, your best bet is to get sponsored, or otherwise helped by your employer in the country of destination. If they won’t help you, you simply apply for a resident visa.
In Canada for example they have (or at least they used to have, I don’t know if this still applies) a system of points whereby you get x percent for having this or that skills in demand, x percent for speaking both French and English, x percent for having found an employer in Canada already… and the visa is granted automatically if your total is over 80% or something to that effect.
In Australia, I got a visa by proving that I had a bunch of money on my bank account. Again, I don’t know if it still applies today, but at least back then, all Australia was interested in is whether you could take care of yourself financially or if you were a bum coming to leech off welfare. I didn’t really have the money, I asked friends and family to lend me as much as possible to make my account fat enough to enter the country, then I gave them the money back.
As for Europe, I had dual citizenship (not anymore, I gave up my American citizenship). So I didn’t have to do anything to enter the EU country I have citizenship with. Once in the Shengen area, you can relocate anywhere you want without asking permission.
I have no money, no job, and no degrees. Odds are the government kills me before fixing one of these problems. Unfortunately leaving is not an option most of the targets of a fascist regime have
Well, like I said, it’s not for everyone.
Even in the best of times, the United States is a country that requires a background level of stress and paranoia to live in. You realize that when you move to another developed country where you don’t have to lock your door or wonder whether the next person you meed is armed, mentally unstable or up to no good.
Even before this whole fascist shitshow got started in 2001, I considered the US a lost cause that’s not really worth fighting for. Dubya and the USA Patriot Act was the thing that finally pushed me to leave.
I only have a finite number of hours on this dirtball and I fully intend to spend them as best I can with my family and my children, and offer them a good life. I don’t have time to fight for lost causes.
It’s a choice ultimately. Emigration isn’t for everybody. If you want to stay and try to make America better, more power to you. I just want people to know that life is sweeter elsewhere.
Where did you move to?
Originally Canada. Then the UK, Australia, then back to Europe where I lived in several EU countries. Currently I’m in northern Scandinavia.
How have you navigated the visa and residency issues? I’d like to settle somewhere and stay, but in a lot of the places I’m considering residency and a path to citizenship are potentially challenging.
In many countries, your best bet is to get sponsored, or otherwise helped by your employer in the country of destination. If they won’t help you, you simply apply for a resident visa.
In Canada for example they have (or at least they used to have, I don’t know if this still applies) a system of points whereby you get x percent for having this or that skills in demand, x percent for speaking both French and English, x percent for having found an employer in Canada already… and the visa is granted automatically if your total is over 80% or something to that effect.
In Australia, I got a visa by proving that I had a bunch of money on my bank account. Again, I don’t know if it still applies today, but at least back then, all Australia was interested in is whether you could take care of yourself financially or if you were a bum coming to leech off welfare. I didn’t really have the money, I asked friends and family to lend me as much as possible to make my account fat enough to enter the country, then I gave them the money back.
As for Europe, I had dual citizenship (not anymore, I gave up my American citizenship). So I didn’t have to do anything to enter the EU country I have citizenship with. Once in the Shengen area, you can relocate anywhere you want without asking permission.
I have no money, no job, and no degrees. Odds are the government kills me before fixing one of these problems. Unfortunately leaving is not an option most of the targets of a fascist regime have
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