NotJustBikes is getting dragged on Twitter for this post.

What do you think? Is he right? Wrong? Not wrong, but an asshole?

When I see how hard advocates and sympathetic planners have to work in 2023 to get a halfassed facility that would never make it off the drawing board in the Netherlands, it's hard for me to say he's wrong.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    We can't go anywhere else. It costs 4,000 dollars to renounce your citizenship in the US.

    • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Well even before that you need a sponsored work visa and good luck getting one unless you're in finance or tech with 5+ years of experience. Only other option is teach English and hope you make enough connections to get a work visa after the contract is up. I really want to get out of here but I work manual labor and dropped out of university due to depression/anxiety/other undiagnosed mental illness so I only have an associate's degree. I though about joining the French Foreign Legion as a last resort but I'm anti-imperialist to the core so I would probably end up fragging an officer.

      I also could possibly get citizenship in a European country through grandparents or great-grandparents but there's like no family tree so I have no idea if I would qualify. I would need to hire someone to go through records to figure it out.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Oh, yeah, and on top of that if you have any kind of disability what-so-ever you're barred from immigrating to almost every country, because fuck you eugenics rules! monke-rage

      • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Canada is relatively doable for skilled trades jobs. Not exactly easy, but easier than most places.

        • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          If you're Canadian, please marry me so I can leave this hell. Or really anywhere north or south of 50 degrees latitude. Trying to not die of heat stroke or dehydration.

          Anyone know how easy it would be to work at some tour company in Ushuaia and just never leave? Asking for SWIM (someone who is me).

          • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Oh, I also should have mentioned, learning French to a high-ish level also helps a lot with PR.

      • Fuckass
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        1 year ago

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      • IloveSeagulls [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        In the same boat, skilled construction trade but no school higher than my apprenticeship. If I could leave I would and not look back but I didn't have the privilege of being able to go to university for some degree that could get me out. As far as I can tell my best hopes are 1) marriage, 2) work for a company like Microsoft with data centers and shit globally, or 3) Canada. I put Canada last because if I manage to emigrate I may as well shoot for something better than USlite.

        • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          That's the story for almost all immigrants from the Global South. Overstay your visa, work cash-in-hand, escape from the police constantly, and apply for residency whenever you can. It shouldn't be that way for anyone, but it is sadly normal for the largest segment of the immigrant population.

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      You don't need to renounce your citizenship to the US to leave.

      It's still not easy.

      • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        If you don’t renounce then you’re on the hook for income taxes

          • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I should have clarified that one is still required to file income taxes

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        you don't need to renounce US citizenship to leave. As for the taxes you still owe I'm not sure about this but I don't think America has any ability to actually enforce that if you don't go back

        • mar_k [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          I'm not sure about this but I don't think America has any ability to actually enforce that if you don't go back

          Well if you have family you wanna visit

    • Sleve_McDichael [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      In the same vein I would love to leave but I have quite a few family obligations in my home town that I would feel very bad about abandoning. In the mean time I try to make my community better as best I can. I know I’m not going to change the world but I’m doing right by my family and friends and that’s as much as I feel I can reasonably expect here

    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I've known people who came from India with nothing and don't even speak English that emmigrated you could emmigrate you just don't want to enough to deal with the hassle which is fair enough it means giving up your current life and starting again somewhere you have no friends or family