This is what people, and particularly independent voters in the US, don't seem to get. It is already on. Ukraine is doing the heavy lifting for us, yes. But it's happening. This is as real as war gets, short of World War III.
Which makes MTG etc. TRAITORS. Not eccentrics. Not even extremists. TRAITORS.
Russia is ALREADY in open war with democracy. It's a little bit easier to notice that when you live in Europe, as I do. NATO is the last firewall.
Is anyone here an EU citizen and has experience with moving to Sweden without a work contract or a contract with a duration shorter than 1 year?
I’m caught in a bureaucratic nightmare and could use advice
Super long shot but maybe someone I know knows someone that knows someone etc. please repost 🙏🏻
I'm Nikki, an #ExPat Brit (who is half Canadian and now a U.S. Citizen) living just west of #PDX, Portland, OR.
As a #trans and #queer person growing up in the 1980s and 90s, Music became a much-needed escape from the real world, and I ended up attending #GSMD in London and becoming a professional #Oboist and #MusicTeacher.
In 2010 I changed career. I'm the owner and co-presenter of @show, where we try to help the world become cleaner, greener, safer, smarter and more equitable through greener transportation and clean energy. (@Aminorjourney is my work account).
Ohai! #introduction
I am a software developer and started my journey almost two decades ago, so I formed some opinions on the way; I might contribute to some discussions.
I like talking about programming languages; expect posts about #golang, #rust, #ziglang, #perl, #compilers, #gamedev and #webdev
As a German #expat I lived in #sweden for years before moving to #valencia#spain. Expect comments about expat life, Spain and maybe some pictures.
Also, #drums, #dogs, #minimalism, and #coffee. 🦎
#mastoaiuto
Domanda rivolta soprattutto agli #expat: ho la carta di identità in scadenza ed al consolato di Barcellona non c'è forma umana di prendere un appuntamento però a breve dovrò andare in Italia e mi chiedevo se conviene rinnovarla lì. Qualcuno si è trovato in questa situazione e mi può dare qualche consiglio?
Boost appreciated 🙂
Is there a word in any language for the sadness and ennui felt by people who have moved around lots and everybody they know and love live in different places, far from each other, and most of those people don't know each other so they rarely see them and are never surrounded by close people? #ThirdCultureKid#ExPat#migration#migrants#language#languages#TCK
For several years I ran a highly popular "how to move to another country" blog. I won't be doing as much of that, but I'm starting to share some of the articles on my new site.
Many don't have the skills needed to be recruited internationally. So if you don't have the skills, what then? You need determination and a passport. Here are some pointers.
Attention expats, immigrants, and all bagel lovers in Korea! If you love those bagels, but feel like an idiot standing in line at London Bagel Museum in Jamsil or wherever, Wirye has TWO bagel shops literally 10 meters apart. One does New York style, the other reps Montreal. Louis Vita and Old Mont Bagels, respectively. Crisp crackling crust, chewy interiors. Not the notorious "round bread" you get in the chain bakeries.
Funny how white people who migrate to another country are expats, but brown people are migrants or refugees. An expat is somebody who is sent by a company or a government to another country. If you voluntarily go to another country, you are an immigrant. #expat#migration
“What I hadn’t anticipated in becoming an expat, the icing on the cake, was that living as an outsider in Scotland gave me a unique slant on Scottish life. I will never be able to express the views of a born-and-bred Scot, but I soon learned the advantages to being a foreigner here. […] I am a hybrid — and my sense of national identity is quite blurred most of the time.”
The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now. As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags.
My dad, my sister, my mother and myself walking along a path up in Puncak (the mountains south of Bogor where expats and well-off residents rented bungalows for the weekend).
1969 maybe? How old do I look there?
(and I'm not going to go into analysis of how our walking arrangement could be seen to reflect what was going on in our family at the time, fully unknown to me then of course)
This morning's #bakery haul was very #pretzel heavy. A regular Pretzel, a Kürbiskernbrezel (pumpkin seed pretzel,) a Pfefferbrezel (pepper pretzel, a laugenbrötchen (pretzel roll), and a fünf korn brötchen (5 grain roll.)
One strange thing about being an #expat is I have almost zero political power. Living in Denmark on a work visa gives me zero access to the local political system. The US government doesn’t care about me at all. Like I can “technically” vote but the elections are over by the time my vote gets there.
What a lot of people don’t know is that most US institutions aren’t even capable of acknowledging my existence (banks, insurance companies, healthcare, SMS security codes, State taxes). I can’t renew a drivers license, maintain a library card and increasingly businesses have started to block VoIP numbers like Google Voice and Rebtel. Even if I can get someone on the phone, their computer system often cannot acknowledge the possibility of a US citizen not living in the US.
I recently had a major US bank (Capital One) tell me after escalating several times that it was impossible to let me log into my account. They had blocked all the Rebtel and Google voice numbers and the system had no solution. “Maybe log into the app next time you fly to the US with a prepaid sim”.
Fax is often the most reliable form of communication with any government or healthcare agency. Certified letters are often the only way to do anything with a bank.
It’s both a fascinating and humbling experience to effectively disappear. It’s also a damning indictment of how poorly designed modern software is to handle any deviation. Human overrides don’t exist anymore. It’s you and the employee plotting together against the machine.
Sold tons of stuff this weekend ahead of the move - turntable, karaoke, Lego, furniture, KitchenAid mixer, instapot... But there's also so much little stuff that's hard to sell and I'd hate to toss. Like a big box of SBCs, various chips, servos, old raspberry Pi's, etc. 🤔 maybe i should just donate a "#maker box" or sell it cheap.