It took a day, but they have accepted their orange overlord.
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Interest declined when they discovered the immigration process was non-trivial. I checked into Canada back in 2016. Didn’t bother this time. I think a lobotomy might be the answer. It would be nice if I could just have my empathy surgically removed.
Wait, you’re telling me other countries have long processes for immigrating? I’m shocked. SHOCKED! Well, not that shocked.
Save your money, y’all. You might need it if you ever need to flee to Canada as a refugee.
If I have to die young, I’m taking a few fascists with me.
Edit: for example the lemmy.ml bots that are stalking my comment history. Yes, you, I see you.
I looked into moving to Germany a few years back myself. Mostly because my work has a place over there and the employee benefits are way way better there than here. I think most immigration processes are nontrivial unless you have a ton of wealth to bring to a country.
This is scary…
Always Remember: Democrats moving to Canada would certainly vote Conservative once eligible to do so.
No, but they all now have plan on how to move.
They’re discouraged by Canada. Subreddits for European countries are filled with Americans inquiring about their chances though. I’ve heard of several wanting to know more about the Netherlands.
As a Dutch person we’d happily welcome the more sensible Americans over here 🙂. I can’t guarantee our government wouldn’t try to stop a mass migration wave given their anti-immigrant policies though.
It’s funny, my partner and I were actually talking about moving to the US for a while to spend more time with my American in-laws but I think that’ll be out of the window for the next four years.
Well once the US stops support and drops out of Nato and Putin starts steamrolling across Eastern Europe countries after they decimated what’s left of Ukraine, I’m sure all the borders will be closed.
Not that it does much good. If the option is get tortured and killed or try your luck with an illegal border crossing people will always try. Even if the border police starts shooting like at the North Korean border, people would still try.
We only hate brown immigrants though.
And women. And LGBT. And the poor. Who’s next?
Fascism must always have an outgroup, as soon as one stops mobilising the base they introduce another.
Lmao the Netherlands have a right-wing extremist government currently.
Buuuut, anyone running from Trump probably won’t vote PVV
Foreigners can’t vote in Dutch national elections unless they are naturalized. And Americans are not very likely to naturalize since it’s not allowed to have double citizenship in the Netherlands and the US has an exit tax when people renounce their US citizenship. So what’s your point ?
Can’t pay an exit tax if you don’t have any assets. Which Americans don’t have because the billionaires stole it all.
It went down when they realized you can’t just walk into Canada.
I already have a plan in place, I’m a dual citizen so I can fuck off anytime
Anytime before they close the borders, that is.
They won’t really have a choice when you are already a legal citizen
The US needs to let you out first, though.
I’m jealous!
I’m still working on it. I just started Uni so I’m unsure of how to go about it
AFAIK if you spend at least 2 years studying here you automatically qualify for a 3 year work permit. I think rolling that into permanent residency is a lot easier than just applying for a work visa or PR out of the gate
International student tuition is way more expensive here in Canada than it is for citizens, but I’m not sure how it stacks up against normal US tuition.
Grain of salt, everything I’ve said is based on anecdotes from people I know who went through it
Usually it’s a bit of a discount
Canada’s closed, sorry.
Stonekeeper, does this chattering animal speak for you?
Ironically the US is one of the easier countries to immigrate to.
You can get some affordable healthcare once you’re here. I’ve heard my neighbors that came up from the States talk about the piece of mind they got when they realized their healthcare will not bankrupt them. It sounds like it’s quite the relief, eh?
