So, I've Decided to Expatriate

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

I remember when i was younger, whenever i would watch No reservations with Anthony Bourdain, thered sometimes be a scene where he sits down with an American expat and they would talk about the local culture and cuisine etc, and id wonder what would make a person just up and leave their country of origin. Like yeah people immigrate worse countries for better ones, or to escape wars and genocides, but what made all these comfortably middle class people fling themselves all over the globe to get away from America in particular?

I am now 34. anthony bourdain has been dead for several years now, and i no longer wonder. I get it. I completely get it. I get it to such a degree that I have bought what No Reservations was trying to show me about life in other countries. After this last election i don't feel any loyalty to this place, and i realize i haven't for years now. If someone were to call me a patriot I don't know how id feel, but probably offended in a weird way? I have never once seen my government actually solve a problem in my lifetime and i'm beginning to see that i probably never will and so i have decided that this country is no longer my circus and its salvation no longer my monkey.

this is all to say that I have decided that I have decided to move to Ireland sometime next year. Guess i'm just trying to find a place to talk about this that isn't social media. Apologies if this is in the wrong subforum.

[Doktor Howl]

No worries.

Personally, I wouldn't miss the next few years for the world.

[Faust]

While I wouldn't trade Ireland for the US under any circumstances, Ireland is far from perfect, we have an awful housing shortage that started about 6 years ago and has gotten worse and worse, new home to buy costs are extortionate, and trying to find an over priced place to rent is incredibly difficult.

If you have someone to stay with you'll be fine, but you'll be facing a hard time trying to get anywhere otherwise.

Politically we are more stable, health care is cheaper than the USA but you still generally want to have insurance, there's plenty of work going round, but every country has its problems, just do your research is all I'm saying

[Doktor Howl]

While I wouldn't trade Ireland for the US under any circumstances, Ireland is far from perfect, we have an awful housing shortage that started about 6 years ago and has gotten worse and worse, new home to buy costs are extortionate, and trying to find an over priced place to rent is incredibly difficult.

If you have someone to stay with you'll be fine, but you'll be facing a hard time trying to get anywhere otherwise.

Politically we are more stable, health care is cheaper than the USA but you still generally want to have insurance, there's plenty of work going round, but every country has its problems, just do your research is all I'm saying

There are towns in Italy that will move you into a house for a dollar right now.

[Faust]

Yep, you can buy a 1 bed apartment in Dublin for 500k euro

Or a 7 bed villa with an orange Grove in sardinia for 100k

And apart from buying there are resettlement schemes for renters like you say for islands where the population is dwindling

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

While I wouldn't trade Ireland for the US under any circumstances, Ireland is far from perfect, we have an awful housing shortage that started about 6 years ago and has gotten worse and worse, new home to buy costs are extortionate, and trying to find an over priced place to rent is incredibly difficult.

If you have someone to stay with you'll be fine, but you'll be facing a hard time trying to get anywhere otherwise.

Politically we are more stable, health care is cheaper than the USA but you still generally want to have insurance, there's plenty of work going round, but every country has its problems, just do your research is all I'm saying

well part of the plan is to seek out this Land Grant program I've heard about where they'll give you money to fix up an existing neglected property. so there the option to fix up a place nice enough to live in or flipping it to rent or buy a place for myself. also I'm pretty sure This One Asshole I Hate already got a place in Italy, and i'm not risking being anywhere near that fuck.

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

also the immigration process seems like less of a headache. tho compared to how immigration works here, the bar is basically in Hell.

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

also also, getting Irish citizenship leads to EU citizenship, which can lead to me moving to anywhere within the EU, which is a plus.

[Faust]

Thats a good idea on the refurb, theres about 70k in grants for refurbishing dwellings that are considered derelict, which from the looks of the grant just means "uninhabited for 2 years" and yeah the passport gives access to both the EU and UK, though for that you might need to apply via northern Ireland for a work number but its a way to get full access to the EU
https://www.gov.uk/prove-right-to-work

 

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

oh thanks Faust that really good to know, actually.

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

so bad news is, unemployment has sidestepped having to pay me in a way so dumb it would overload my brain if i had to elaborate, so it looks like i'm gonna need to build up a nest egg before i can fly the coop. Goods news is i've been tentatively hired by a children's entertainment company to do birthday entertainment. so yeah I'm gonna be a birthday clown.

[Doktor Howl]

so bad news is, unemployment has sidestepped having to pay me in a way so dumb it would overload my brain if i had to elaborate, so it looks like i'm gonna need to build up a nest egg before i can fly the coop. Goods news is i've been tentatively hired by a children's entertainment company to do birthday entertainment. so yeah I'm gonna be a birthday clown.

I couldn't be trusted with that job, for more or less the same reason Cain can't be trusted with that job.

It's illegal for ECH to even apply.

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

 welp, due to a lack of spots at Ye Olde Birthday entertainer factory, i am in fact, NOT going to be a party entertainer. Guess its back to selling my personal belongings



PS the HR lady was named Eris. I cant make this shit up.

[Chelagoras The Boulder]

hey so update on this whole situation, i was dealing with an awful lot when i started this thread, i was and still am the main caretaker for my mother who has been diagnosed with dementia within the last month or so, on top of the stage 4 cirrhosis we already knew she had. I'm in a slightly better position in that I am at least being compensated for my efforts taking care of my mom now, and as a family we think we've got my mom's romance scamming problem handled, so that's been a relief.

having said that, i am still committed to GTFO of here when i can, but now its looking like Mexico is gonna be a lot easier. Plus, the level of care my mom needs is a lot cheaper in Mexico so her pension would go a lot farther.