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    11 days ago

    It’s a good idea to keep a valid passport around no matter if you live in North America or Europe. Doesn’t hurt to be prepared.

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      I mean, they basically already have… It cost $165/person for a passport that can go anywhere but Canada and Mexico. Over $600 for a family before you can even go anywhere. For probably 90% of families, that sort of disposable income is a dream when most people can’t afford a $500 emergency expense.

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    I got mine very recently and I’m so happy about it. I’m trying to get my family members to get it as well but they refuse to, it’s upsetting.

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    By the time you realize you need to have a passport, you should have already gotten one. I got my first passport in 2000. It took like a week. I lost it and had to get a new one in 2007. I got grilled by Homeland Security in a windowless office about whether or not I was familiar with the terrorist cells in the country I was vacationing in because it was a country with a significant Muslim population. I can’t imagine what it’s like now.

    Sign up for some exchange program in a neutral country, buy a round-trip ticket, and just never come back.

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    Incredible to think that something like 65% of Americans have NEVER left the country, not even to Canada or Mexico. More impressive, even, is that like 40% have left their home STATE.

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      The state statistic is more daming and informative I think. For someone without big travel money/time, America does have enough natural beauty (or whats left of it in this world) for most of a lifetime of travel and experince. Someone can be decently traveled, and have some corresponding broad ass horizons without having left the US.

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      I mean, it’s a big country. I assume “Europeans who never left Europe” would be a similar percentage. I’m saying this as someone living in the EU.

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        I imagine that’s a large part of it, yes, but how many don’t, and just CHOOSE to stay in like, Oklahoma or something?

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          most people i imagine? How many europeans are born in a country, and just, never leave, move out, go anywhere else. It has to be a statistically significant figure, not as much as america, considering that UK is maybe the size of ONE state. But still.

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            I think since the introduction of euro and Schengen the percentage of eu-citizens who never been outside their country has dropped close to zero. Also think the percentage of eu-citizens who has never left eu is smaller than us-citizens leaving the us is. States are big yes, but the difference between states is smaller which means it makes less sense to travel ‘abroad’.

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              im almost certain the statistics are similar.

              Though the EU has a more monolithic climate environment, so i wouldn’t be surprised if it was at least a little bit lower. The US has WILD climate variation. Although you have a point on the density. I’m sure that makes it interesting.

              The biggest difference geographically is that in america you can drive through like 4 different climates, on your way across the country. If you want someone cold, there are tons of options in the north, especially during the winter, you want somewhere hot? Just go south. A lot of northern climates have quite hot summers as well. You want somewhere milder? Hit the coasts. You really just don’t need to travel outside of the US to experience all of the particularly interesting climates. There’s also enough different culture that you can experience fairly isolated segments of culture in different places, particularly the east/west coast, most of the south, including texas, and parts of the north.

              Really the only reason you would ever need to leave america is if you wanted to go traveling abroad, which many people just aren’t that invested in.

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                Probably even with dry statistics you can’t really compare the two that much. I also wonder how much it is because people don’t want to or feel the need to travel outside of the EU/USA, versus them not being able financially. Beside culture and climate the financial means of people within the US and EU differs a lot.

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      why would they, sure you could go visit europe, or india, and a lot of people do that.

      America is a huge fucking country. If you want to have interesting travel, there are PLENTY of places you can go within america alone. It’s just not really required. Sure if you want to experience other culture, and what not, you’re going other places, nobody is going to stop you. But you can literally just drive across ALL of america, without a passport, it’s so much easier. And again, there are tons of geographically unique places to visit, there is a substantially significant variety of culture within america itself.

      It’s just not really needed.

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        America is a huge fucking country. If you want to have interesting travel, there are PLENTY of places you can go within america alone.

        I would love for this to be the answer for why most Americans don’t travel internationally. The US is massive, and it’s one of the most geographically diverse countries on earth. Just look at this list of ecoregions of the US. Also, damn near every nationality you can think of has made a home here, and they brought their culture with them. There are Congolese enclaves in North Carolina, Somalian enclaves in Minnesota, Cambodian enclaves in California, Indian enclaves in New York, Finnish enclaves in Oregon, French enclaves in Alabama… The list goes on and on. It’s actually insane how much beautiful variation there is here, both geographically and culturally.

        Unfortunately, the real reason most Americans don’t travel abroad is far more depressing. The numbers that Dogiedog64 was citing come from a survey conducted by OnePoll, which wound up in this Forbes article.

        In fact, survey results showed 76 percent of the respondents wanted to travel more than they do currently. The reasons they gave for why they don’t are what you would expect: mainly due to a lack of finances or just feeling unprepared and ill-equipped to venture forth into unknown territory. More specifically, 63 percent of Americans who have never left the country said an international trip would be out of their price range.

        When you consider that nearly 40% of Americans can’t cover an unexpected $400 expense, it starts to make sense that so many Americans don’t travel abroad. It’s heartbreaking that we basically invented “grind culture”, and yet most of us can’t afford the same kind of vacation that a minimum wage worker in Denmark gets.

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          even if this is true, at the very least people are capable of traveling a lot of interesting places, so it’s not all hope lost at least.

          If i had to guess, it’s probably less money (certainly right now that’s the case) and more to do with all the bureaucracy. You can wake up tomorrow and drive all the way across america, with basically no paper work. I would be surprised if many people in america even had valid passports to be honest.

          Not to mention all the work you have to do in preparing overseas accommodations. And potential language barriers. Traveling outside of the US has got to be like 10x more difficult than traveling inside the US.

          I also imagine that if people DO travel outside, they’re going to go on a big trip, to see a lot of things, and it’s going to be more expensive. It’s just how that kind of thing tends to work. It’ll be some shit like a wedding, for example.

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            If i had to guess, it’s probably less money (certainly right now that’s the case) and more to do with all the bureaucracy.

            That Forbes article is 6 years old. Money has been the issue for a long time. On top of a dwindling and almost nonexistent middle class, traveling abroad from the US is just more expensive than traveling abroad from a European country because we have to cross huge oceans.

            You can wake up tomorrow and drive all the way across america, with basically no paper work. I would be surprised if many people in america even had valid passports to be honest.

            With travel to Europe being so expensive for Americans, our foreign destinations of choice have historically been Mexico or Canada. Americans didn’t used to need a passport to travel to Mexico or Canada, and even some Caribbean countries, as long as we went by land or by sea (flying always required a passport). We could just drive or take a cruise there like we were going to any other state. After 9/11, the government began pushing the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, and in 2007, passports became mandatory even for driving to Mexico and Canada. So instead of going through the hassle of getting a passport, a lot of Americans are just choosing not to travel outside the country at all.

            Not to mention all the work you have to do in preparing overseas accommodations. And potential language barriers. Traveling outside of the US has got to be like 10x more difficult than traveling inside the US.

            It really is. And since we don’t make it mandatory to learn a foreign language in school (unlike most European countries), the language barrier is a big deal.

            I also imagine that if people DO travel outside, they’re going to go on a big trip, to see a lot of things, and it’s going to be more expensive. It’s just how that kind of thing tends to work. It’ll be some shit like a wedding, for example.

            Which puts overseas travel out of reach for most Americans.

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      its to keep them ignorant, most of them tend to be conservatives, the only time they would leave is joining ht emilitary, that is about it. i never been to mexico, but i been to canada on both coasts different times when i was younger. was in china pre-2000.

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        unlikely, it’s more likely that most americans just don’t really feel the need to go anywhere outside of america, due to how large it is, and how much cultural variance there is within the country. It’s more than any single european country could imagine, more than every west european country could imagine even.

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    Do people live without a passport? Cause I dunno, maybe it is how my family ran things in my childhood but everyone of us had a passport as a must. (I’m from a lesser known EU country)

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      Just look at the size of the US, and the diversity of their climate

      You don’t need a passport if you live in geographical heaven, with such a rich and diverse culture

      ( I’m probably gonna get downvoted for saying something positive about the USA :( )

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    it is still very easy to get a passport. I helped a friend get theirs last month, and more over the years.

    don’t listen to any of the ignorant comments saying it’s difficult to get one; they don’t know what they’re talking about.

    you can do it online or in person at a US Post office.

    fill out the application form, takes maybe 20 minutes tops, pay the fee (165$), they take your picture, you will get your passport in the mail in a couple of weeks, it lasts for 10 years, renewable on the go from embassies and consulates.

    If you have any questions about passports or traveling, fire away.

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        yea, but $16 a year for an instant 50-90% reduced cost of living with guaranteed high-pay employment and no income tax while retaining access to consular services is a pretty good deal.

        not as good as 7 bucks a year, but I’m not exactly going to quibble over the extra ten in the face of all the benefits.

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            are you confused by the numbers or the words?

            both are concise and to the point, in case someone like you happened upon them.

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              Man the main problem is that most people understand that traveling abroad with a passport is no guarantee of getting a job abroad.

              Even if you travel and you have a remote job, there is no guarantee that your cost of living is gonna go down. Countries change.

              Also there is the pesky fact that to be able to work as a vacation stay while being inside another country, you usually need a visa.

              Try Panama for example. You can work remotely in there, all good. But you will have to pay for everything in cash because you can’t use the ATMs up to certain limits of withdrawals.

              Try western union? Good, a chunk of your money is just gone, and that’s if they don’t catch you transferring money to yourself. They are not a Bank.

              Try crypto? That’s good too, comes with the expected baggage of taking security on yourself, not the bank. And certainly not “easy” true the standard person who never traveled

              Even credit cards have limited use as you need to leave a travel warning to the card. Maybe you renew it, maybe not, but after a time suspicious activity starts to pile up from outside your billing country

              Pay rent? In cash. Sure there are landlords that will accommodate for that (for a higher price and good luck complaining about anything. To who?) but most will be subject to taxes on the property and to get discounts on those they need to make a digital invoice for you.

              Rent is not cheap in there. Food is cheap but it is getting near international prices since a few years ago

              And forget about all the luxuries you have in the usa while living in there.

              Someone assaults you or you get robbed or into an incident, car crash, your personals stolen? Forget the cops.

              Health? All paid. Not cheap and certainly not easily accessible.

              Also insurance. If you are identified as an illegal working abroad, policies you got while in the usa may not cover for that.

              Transportation is the easiest one but going everywhere with a cabify or Uber is expensive. Rent a car? Sure, also expensive. Buy a cheap car? Sure. You need legal means on the country to do that. Driving license? Hope you legalized and apostilled that too.

              You could become a citizen. But if you have 40k ISD to 750k USD to spare, why the hassle? Stay at the USA.

              And that’s from the top of my head for one country.

              And that’s without talking about how you’re presence there will make everything expensive for the locals over time

              So you not only fucking up your life, but others as well

              Truly American collectivism in action

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                tldr your anxieties here are ridiculous and for the large part simply unfactual and unsupported by any evidence, although I take the time to correct them below.

                “most people understand that traveling abroad with a passport is no guarantee of getting a job abroad”

                this is specifically because they don’t have the experience or knowledge that comes with traveling abroad.

                "Even if you travel and you have a remote job, there is no guarantee that your cost of living is gonna go down. "

                this is flatly incorrect, maybe the most ignorant comment so far. this is as incorrect as claiming that one plus one equals four.

                if you move from a country with a high cost of living to a country with a lower cost of living, your cost of living will go down, full stop, there is no maybe about it.

                that is simple fact, and to claim otherwise is absurd and makes absolutely zero sense.

                “Countries change.”

                broadly and over time, but you aren’t going to land in a country that costs 50% less and then suddenly find out 3 months later that everything costs as much as the US.

                that does not hapoen, but even if we play to make believe and it did, you can move the next day to another of the 100+ countries with a lower cost of living.

                “the pesky fact that to be able to work as a vacation stay while being inside another country, you usually need a visa.”

                this is also incorrect and clearly stems from your ignorance of travel.

                if you ask questions instead of making assumptions, I won’t have to correct every single one of these false statements.

                three important points here:

                1. if you are a digital nomad, many countries waive taxes and a work visa for digital income. you can go through the Visa process if you want to, but you do not need to.

                2. a work visa for teaching English abroad as a native English speaker is about the easiest visa to get.

                3. visas are not some kind of crapshoot or gamble. if you apply for a Visa and you fit the requirements, you get the visa. the process only becomes more surefire for industry-critical jobs, like English teaching in a world that relies on English.

                “You can work remotely in there, all good.”

                correct.

                “But you will have to pay for everything in cash”

                incorrect, you can use a card with no transaction fees, or online payments.

                “…because you can’t use the ATMs up to certain limits of withdrawals.”

                every bank in refrigerator country has daily withdrawal limits, is that what you’re afraid of?

                because the daily limit in Panama for withdrawals is $500 per day. that’s plenty of money for daily activities.

                you don’t even need more than $500 a day in the US.

                “Try western union? Good, a chunk of your money is just gone, and that’s if they don’t catch you transferring money to yourself.”

                there is no reason to throw away your money.

                if you want to throw away your money personally, feel free, or give it to someone in need.

                you choosing to throw away money out of ignorance or fear doesn’t mean that the cost of living is more expensive, it means that you are personally choosing to throw away money.

                “Try crypto?”

                again, zero reason to do this.

                "Even credit cards have limited use as you need to leave a travel warning to the card. "

                first, this is not true.

                secondly, if you want to leave a travel warning, it is a one minute phone call.

                you call the company you want to, tell them I will be traveling for the next 6 months, they say okay and add the notification to your account.

                if you forget to do that and your card gets frozen while abroad (which is not common), you call up the bank tell them you are traveling, confirm your identity and they unfreeze your card.

                “Maybe you renew it, maybe not”

                this would be the exact same thing if you were still living in the US. do you use expired credit and debit cards in the us?

                of course not, that would be idiotic.

                “after a time suspicious activity starts to pile up from outside your billing country”

                this is simply untrue, the longer you travel the more normal it becomes that you are using your card abroad.

                and again with a one minute phone call, you can let the company know you were traveling, this is a non-issue.

                “Pay rent? In cash.”

                flatly incorrect again.

                you can use pretty much any form of payment to pay online for rent in every country.

                “Rent is not cheap in there”

                again, that is the whole point of moving to a place with a cheap cost of living.

                you seem not to understand basic math.

                if you move to a place that costs more, or a house that costs more than where you are living now, you are going to end up paying more, and have a higher cost of living.

                my suggestion is that people who are paying a lot move to places that cost less for the same quality, that will result in a lower cost of living.

                you want to pay more, I want people to pay less.

                “Food is cheap but it is getting near international prices since a few years ago”

                this is not true, even though you’ve chosen the richest country in Central America.

                you can take a bus from that country to any other country and everything will instantly be cheaper.

                you are very confused about how economies work.

                "forget about all the luxuries you have in the usa while living in there. "

                incorrect, especially in Panama you can enjoy every single luxury at a lower price than you enjoy in the US.

                not to mention the cost of living is so low, you’re enjoying zero cost of utilities, an incredibly low cost of insurance, low cost of healthcare, low cost of all foods, low cost of rent, and every luxury you want is available but costs less.

                this is why I encourage people to move away from the US. except for you, you are so afraid of basic facts that maybe you should give yourself some time.

                “Transportation is the easiest one…”

                you’re clearly talking about how afraid us transportation makes you and how expensive it is, that is the most expensive and useless transportation in the world.

                transportation everywhere else in the world is very commonplace, easy to use and cheap in comparison to the US.

                none of what you have said so far is remotely accurate, while my information is easily verifiable by online apps, charts and articles.

                “You could become a citizen”

                you could become a skydiver.

                “But if you have 40k ISD to 750k USD to spare, why the hassle? Stay at the USA.”

                because if you have 750k USD to spare (and have no unforeseen expenses), you can live for several years in the US inside a system that does not support you, OR you can live abroad well for the rest of your life.

                if you stay in the usa, you have no health Care. if you travel abroad, you have quality, instant, affordable healthcare.

                if you stay in the us, your utilities alone cost more than twice your rent if you live abroad.

                if you stay in the us, you aren’t guaranteed a job as a native English speaker. abroad, you are guaranteed that job.

                there are many reasons to not stay in the US.

                you are completely off the mark following your fears and anxieties.

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              These are your assertions:

              • Americans with a passport are guaranteed a high paying job
              • Anericans with a passport don’t have to pay US income tax
              • Americans with a passport also don’t have to pay foreign income tax
              • Americans with a passport can move ‘instantly’ (even with some leeway for figurative language) to somewhere with 50-90% lower cost of living.

              Are you an illegal border-running English as a Second Language teacher in Cambodia by any chance?

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                no, those are not my assertions.

                it seems that rather than ask clarifying questions, you’ve extrapolated false conclusions from a base of assumptive ignorance.

                not very helpful.

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                  I hate to break it to you then, you are terrible at communicating what your actual assertions are. Because you made those assertions simple and concise. Whatever you imagined you were saying, you didn’t. Hence: what the fuck are you talking about?

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          why do you keep saying lower cost of living?

          If you go homeless you can also have a lower cost of living.

          Contrary to popular belief, if you’re dead, the cost of living is zero.

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            “why do you keep saying lower cost of living?”

            because a lot of americans are poor and scared because they are poor.

            move abroad, they aren’t poor and can rapidly save money.

            A lower cost of living means you have more money.

            I’m…not sure I can make this simpler for you, so I hope one of those sticks.

            “If you go homeless you can also have a lower cost of living.”

            Incorrect. You aren’t living the same way, you are merely surviving which I’ve already pointed out in my earlier comments by specifying the easy accessibility of a lower cost of living while retaining the same or better services.

            You can go homeless if you want, but that’s your own playpen, not my recommendation.

            “Contrary to popular belief, if you’re dead, the cost of living is zero.”

            How did you not know this before now?

            What did you think dead people were spending money on?

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              yeah but we aren’t talking about emmigration, we’re talking about passports, passports make travel legal. They don’t allow you to emmigrate. (technically they do facilitate it, but you also need a lot of paper work with whatever country you’re moving to)

              Incorrect. You aren’t living the same way, you are merely surviving which I’ve already pointed out in my earlier comments by specifying the easy accessibility of a lower cost of living while retaining the same or better services.

              says who? You seem to think money comes from schizophrenia central, rather than like, a company that somebody works at. Or a job that they have, if you’re homeless, you would be spending 0 money on cost of living, and therefore have SO MUCH MONEY.

              How did you not know this before now?

              sarcasm, satire even.

              What did you think dead people were spending money on?

              If i had the same level of intelligence as you, cost of living.

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                “yeah but we aren’t talking about emmigration”

                There you go! I just have to keep repeating the same thing and knew you’d eventually catch on. Spelling notwithstanding.

                'They don’t allow you to emmigrate."

                Not what we’re talking about, remember there champ?

                “but you also need a lot of paper work with whatever country you’re moving to”

                Incorrect.

                “if you’re homeless, you would be spending 0 money on cost of living, and therefore have SO MUCH MONEY.”

                What did…that’s it.

                Sweet summer child, homeless people in america without income make even less than your vaunted capitalists in America, again because the cost of living is so high. Homeless people with an income are not going to be saving any money. Because they don’t have an income.

                No wonder you thought dead people spend money.

                Dude. Book. Read.

                You’re hopelessly lost.

                You can also ask questions, so you stop sounding so ignorant.

                Your comments are embarrassing to read.

                Stop acting so scared. Ask some real questions. You can learn here.

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    Aren’t you afraid other countries will treat you the way Americans are treating others? Why not stay and fix your goddamn country.

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      Most US democrats are actually cowards: unwilling to do anything outside of internet complaints, convincing mentally ill people to commit violence for them online, pathetic finger waggling or holding up signs/paddles so they can high-five each other at the end of a productive day doing nothing.

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      The USians leaving are the ones who didn’t vote for fascism and at least speaking for myself, are learning the language and culture of the place they are going to. I appreciate you not wanting a USian immigrant crisis, but I hope you can welcome those of us who make it over AND who treat the locals with respect. 🥺

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      We don’t know how. We were told all our lives that voting was the fix, but that system is broken now.

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        I believe you call it the “second amendment.” We’ve been hearing about how America needw school shootings cause of it for decades.

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      other countries treat travelers very nicely. even Vietnam, which is the only country I was kind of nervous about visiting.

      staying and fixing the country isn’t really worth it right now, that’s like suggesting someone stay in an abuseive household and “fix” their abusive father.

      get out of the house first, go from there.

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        staying and fixing the country isn’t really worth it right now, that’s like suggesting someone stay in an abuseive household and “fix” their abusive father.

        what do you think civil wars are?

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              “creatures that only exist in fiction?”

              Why are you asking me?

              “Like your comments?”

              Kid, the lines of reality are clearly blurred for you, but these comments are happening right now. They are not fiction.

              I pity you, sincerely. You must have a difficult life.

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                Why are you asking me?

                you asked me lil bro.

                Kid, the lines of reality are clearly blurred for you, but these comments are happening right now. They are not fiction.

                advanced internet users like myself call this “humor” or “comedy” the joke here is that i’m making fun of your nonsensical comments by calling back to the previous comment you left, after responding to it, that would be referred to as “witt” or “witty humor”

                I pity you, sincerely. You must have a difficult life.

                thinking these jokes up is really hard, takes me all day.

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                  “you asked me”

                  no I didn’t sport, you got yourself all turned around

                  “advanced internet users like myself call this “humor”…”

                  just keep trying, I’m sure you’ll get there one day.

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      Do you prioritize not having illegal status in another country over your own ability to stay alive and stay safe?

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        They deport you. Do you have confidence in evading authorities and working menial jobs under the table for a lifetime?

        That’s the point.

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        I don’t think the United States is going to turn into freaking Yemen. It’s not good for your mental health and those surrounding you to start thinking you are actually going to get executed or something like that.

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      A passport is one of the most important documents you can have. It has many uses, and is relatively easy to get… at least in my country where we have government efficiency with funding— so we get it in two weeks else it’s free.

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    americans on their way to destroy another country (they already managed to destroy the one they were living in)

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        sure thing. “we did all we could!!! we placed an X on a ballot and that didn’t work so it’s time to run away”

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              I moved to Taiwan. Pay is less than America, but cost of living is also way less so it’s relative. We get universal health care which offsets the lower income.

              For reference, my water bill is around 30usd a month and my electric is 100usd. My 5G unlimited data cellphone is 20usd a month.

              Childcare is way cheaper than America, and more abundant.

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                How did you get the work visa ? Did someone sponsor you? Was working remotely employed to your USA job an option?

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                  My family has Taiwanese citizenship. But to get a Gold Card status, the requirements are not too difficult. There are a certain skillset that Taiwan government is looking to import. The gold card has a full path to citizenship.

                  When I first came over I just worked nights at my American job. I just didn’t tell them and worked via VPN.

                  Much later, I started picking up work locally as a freelancer and now globally.

                  I no longer have a job American job.

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      Americans who travel, as with all travelers, tend to become open-mindedx curious and engaging people; traveling makes people better.