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Re: Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?

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Post by guerrilla »

bshepard wrote: post #95
martinald wrote: post #40

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Yes, because there are no alcohol or drug issues in Berlin! What an over the top comment. The US regardless of these issues is an enormously successful country, with some of the friendlist people when you visit (I'm from the UK originally but travel a lot).

There's a lot of alcohol and drug use in Berlin, but there are not vast open air drug markets like Kensington in Philadelphia or Skid Row in San Francisco. The issue is, indeed, "over the top."

> Skid Row in San Francisco.

Literal Skid Row is in Los Angeles[1], the figurative skid row in SF is called the Tenderloin [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_Row,_Los_Angeles

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_row#San_Francisco

Re: Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?

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Post by wsostt »

bshepard wrote: post #7

Hello there, I live in Berlin now and used to live in the United States. My family is there, and I go back to the east coast of the US often. The degenerating and dystopian quality of the United States is difficult to overstate, but almost impossible to capture verbally. Whatever one cause attributes to the systematic breakdown of the US, it is difficult to deny the realities of the decline -- massive alcohol and nar…

This is a perfectly acceptable view of the United States if you only watch television news.

Re: Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?

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Post by arroz »

koevet wrote: post #115
christophilus wrote: post #88

I freelance and love it. The hard part for you will be getting your foot in the door. I’m about your age, and so far haven’t had any problems with employers in our industry. The rise of remote work probably helps you a bit with the employment side of your question. As for the negative comments, what the comments here don’t address is this: the US is almost more like a bunch of countries rather than one single entity.…

Thanks for your thoughts. I visited the US in the past (hell, me best trip ever was an epic coast to coast with a Marine friend) and I'm aware of the differences. Cultural differences are ok, this is why we consider moving - and why I moved a lot around in the past. My main concern is about getting to an age where I can't really afford severe financial missteps. Our "purchase power" here in Berlin is very very high a…

Why do you find Berlin a messed up city?

Re: Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?

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Post by bshepard »

seibelj wrote: post #67
guerrilla wrote: post #55

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> including runaway inflation The same as everywhere... due to a war and pandemic . > a government and social safety net that is rapidly becoming unaffordable Completely false. Do you even read our budgets? Your debt-to-GDB was literally 3x ours last year. European countries aren't even allowed to deficit spend more than a few percent (which is what got Greece in trouble, for example.) > they pretend don’t exist I'm…

I find lectures about American society from Europeans, as the parent comment did, exceedingly ironic and misinformed considering the same issues plague both sides. Even more so as American armed forces and weapons (and our tax dollars and political system) are what protect all of you from annihilation. The grass is always greener but I prefer it here.

The parent comment, me, was an American. Yes, the US state offers "protection" to Europeans, gangsters do that too.

Re: Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?

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Post by drstewart »

guerrilla wrote: post #55
seibelj wrote: post #41

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This is hilariously inaccurate and essentially a stereotype perceived from the Reddit front page. Europe is experiencing legions of issues including runaway inflation, a government and social safety net that is rapidly becoming unaffordable, a migrant crisis that is causing their own racial issues that they pretend don’t exist but are causing huge polarization and the rise of right-wing parties, a business climate th…

> including runaway inflation The same as everywhere... due to a war and pandemic . > a government and social safety net that is rapidly becoming unaffordable Completely false. Do you even read our budgets? Your debt-to-GDB was literally 3x ours last year. European countries aren't even allowed to deficit spend more than a few percent (which is what got Greece in trouble, for example.) > they pretend don’t exist I'm…

>The same as everywhere... due to a war and pandemic.

Yes, Europe is at war. Good reminder of the massive social instability occurring on the continent. Scary place to be right now.

Re: Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?

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Post by drstewart »

guerrilla wrote: post #42
cm2187 wrote: post #26

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> Lots of anti American comments in this thread Probably the time zone. Better to ask this question in the afternoon in europe.

So you can get a bunch of American nationalists who have never been to Europe answering? You're dismissing people who have actually lived in both places.

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Re: Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?

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Post by eertami »

drstewart wrote: post #135
guerrilla wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> including runaway inflation The same as everywhere... due to a war and pandemic . > a government and social safety net that is rapidly becoming unaffordable Completely false. Do you even read our budgets? Your debt-to-GDB was literally 3x ours last year. European countries aren't even allowed to deficit spend more than a few percent (which is what got Greece in trouble, for example.) > they pretend don’t exist I'm…

>The same as everywhere... due to a war and pandemic. Yes, Europe is at war. Good reminder of the massive social instability occurring on the continent. Scary place to be right now.

The US just took away the constitutional right to bodily autonomy. That kind of internal oppression of ones own citizens is absolutely beyond terrifying, and obviously a bigger worry for social stability.

Europe is not at war. War in Ukraine is due to an external force that affects barely anybody in Europe. What a bizarre nationalistic reply this is, to be so insecure about the landmass you happen to live on.

Re: Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?

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Post by drstewart »

eertami wrote: post #138
drstewart wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The same as everywhere... due to a war and pandemic. Yes, Europe is at war. Good reminder of the massive social instability occurring on the continent. Scary place to be right now.

The US just took away the constitutional right to bodily autonomy. That kind of internal oppression of ones own citizens is absolutely beyond terrifying, and obviously a bigger worry for social stability. Europe is not at war. War in Ukraine is due to an external force that affects barely anybody in Europe. What a bizarre nationalistic reply this is, to be so insecure about the landmass you happen to live on.

>The US just took away the constitutional right to bodily autonomy.

Can you point to, say, the UK's constitutional right to bodily autonomy so I can compare? I assume that there will be one as not having a strong constitution guaranteeing these rights is massive internal oppression that is very scary. Also: speaking of the UK and taking away its citizens rights... ever hear of Brexit?

>Europe is not at war. War in Ukraine is due to an external force that affects barely anybody in Europe

Ukraine is not in Europe? Also, the original commenter claimed inflation were a result of war and pandemic. So does it affect people or not?

>What a bizarre nationalistic reply this is, to be so insecure about the landmass you happen to live on.

I agree, the Europeans in this thread are bizarrely nationalistic. My sense is that there's a large contingent of political redditors in here.

Re: Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?

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Post by seibelj »

eertami wrote: post #138
drstewart wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The same as everywhere... due to a war and pandemic. Yes, Europe is at war. Good reminder of the massive social instability occurring on the continent. Scary place to be right now.

The US just took away the constitutional right to bodily autonomy. That kind of internal oppression of ones own citizens is absolutely beyond terrifying, and obviously a bigger worry for social stability. Europe is not at war. War in Ukraine is due to an external force that affects barely anybody in Europe. What a bizarre nationalistic reply this is, to be so insecure about the landmass you happen to live on.

Europe has a patchwork of abortion laws and generally are far more restrictive than the US, which in many places you can abort very late term. While I support a woman’s right to abort up to a point, the issue is now devolving to the states and ideally will result in less national strife, as it was an arbitrary litmus test for presidential candidates.

I live in Boston and groups here are flying women in and shipping pills out to abort their babies. Acting like it’s a dystopian nightmare because of the Roe overturn is hyperbolic.

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