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Ask HN: How can I escape my third-world country?

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Re: Ask HN: How can I escape my third-world country?

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Post by sunstone »

You could might try applying to immigrate to Canada. They allow over 300k immigrants a year and the biggest requirements are to not be too old and fluent in English (or French). Lack of an official high school diploma is tricky but you might be able to a) pass some kind high school equivalency test in your country or b) write an internationally recoginzed test (eg SAT or GMAT) if you can score well on those then it should count for something.

If you're not from a liberal democracy kind of place (eg any where that was a UK colony for instance) then your biggest adjustment might be culture. I've worked many very fine people who arrive here and think it's quite ok to voice an opinion like "I hate chinese." or "I hate Indians" or etc which is acceptable in their country but definitely not fine in modern liberal democracy.

Re: Ask HN: How can I escape my third-world country?

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Post by seafood »

simonblack wrote: post #10

Your biggest difficulty at the moment is in discovering what country is "a safe, clean country with a non-toxic culture (and preferably a cool climate)." I also would like to move to a suitable country. But .... There is no country on Earth at the moment which conforms suitably to my criteria. For what it's worth, New Zealand while not particularly suitable is more suitable to me than other countries at the moment.

I was wondering if you could elaborate. Can you list the disqualifying criteria for a few countries? I'm really interested to see what disqualifies them for you.

Re: Ask HN: How can I escape my third-world country?

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Post by jpmoral »

babaganoosh89 wrote: post #5

I would take that 50k and get a green card marriage or the equivalent in other countries.

That would be fraud. As a recent immigrant myself one of my fears is that the high-trust culture that makes society work where I am now will devolve into a low-trust one that will make this place more like the third-world country I escaped from.

Re: Ask HN: How can I escape my third-world country?

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Post by throway202010 »

If you're a good programmer consider moving to Sweden for these reasons:

* Many reputable software companies have engineering offices there

* Obtaining a work permit is easy even for a high school dropout if you have a job offer

* Getting citizenship or permanent residency is easy

* Safe, clean and highly developed

* Almost everyone speaks english fluently

Re: Ask HN: How can I escape my third-world country?

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Post by mdifrgechd »

ghufran_syed wrote: post #16

Can you explain what you mean by "Not a good team player yet"? If I didn't have any other information, I would have to assume this means "someone who often argues or fights with colleagues"

I feel like it means this person is self aware enough to know this is something they have to develop, which is a step beyond most people's awareness. I'm speaking from experience, I spend the first 30+ years of my life in academic roles where I never had to care about getting along with people, I didnt even realize it was something that was missing until I started working in the private sector. If the OP knows they have this to work on, that should be construed positively in my view.

Re: Ask HN: How can I escape my third-world country?

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Post by isr »

ta75687568 wrote: post #7

You could investigate the option of immigrating to the US as a Registered Nurse. Last I looked (which was some years ago) nurses were exempt from the Labor Certification requirement -- meaning you don't have to prove that there are no qualified Americans willing to take a particular job, because a long term shortage of nurses is assumed.

I may be climbing up the wrong tree here, but I genuinely get the impression that the OP is actually from the US, and wants to leave it.

Or am I reading in between the lines of the cryptic opening post too much? Dunno ...

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