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Re: Ask HN: Where Would You Emigrate To?

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Post by greggarious »

082349872349872 wrote: post #4
realAzazello wrote: post #2

Why do I feel this is a setup?? Still...Alright, I'll be the first to bite.... You're talking emigration, not just 'nomading'--which is that grey area of having a tourist visa but working remotely, thus technically you're not working illegally within that country. Since most countries are very strict about emigration, yes even EU ones, your best bet is to go for that Italian citizenship which if gained will grant you…

> allow access to more countries than any other passport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henley_Passport_Index differs: looks like an IT passport currently beats a US (albeit not significantly) for visa-free travel.

cuba might be an option but i've heard they don't have good internet

Re: Ask HN: Where Would You Emigrate To?

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Post by 082349872349872 »

greggarious wrote: post #7
realAzazello wrote: post #2

Why do I feel this is a setup?? Still...Alright, I'll be the first to bite.... You're talking emigration, not just 'nomading'--which is that grey area of having a tourist visa but working remotely, thus technically you're not working illegally within that country. Since most countries are very strict about emigration, yes even EU ones, your best bet is to go for that Italian citizenship which if gained will grant you…

I said nothing about working. I will save up enough money to live for a while without working, and see if I make local contacts, get married. Also "emigration" could mean one of the options with an EU passport, not just hanging around coffeeshops doing non-income generating projects and hoping to meet a partner or paying for a student visa to study a country's native language, which is cheaper than you'd expect in ma…

> Like a typical American, I only speak English, though I know enough German and Spanish to navigate public transit

YMMV, but from my experience, I'd suggest budgeting ~2 years to get to reasonable fluency wherever you wind up going, and ~5 years to feel like you've got the hang of your adopted culture. (That's starting from scratch; these days with everything available from home on the internet you might be able to shorten it a bit?)

In bocca al lupo!

Re: Ask HN: Where Would You Emigrate To?

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Post by cko »

I moved from the US to Romania. The major cities are safe and low-cost. Spain and Portugal are on my radar.

The Romanian language can at times sound Italian. You could bounce between the two countries.

Re: Ask HN: Where Would You Emigrate To?

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Post by 082349872349872 »

greggarious wrote: post #8
082349872349872 wrote: post #3

Val d'Aosta? Bolzano? Trieste? Viareggio? Campione d'Italia? As far as non-italian destinations go, what languages do you speak?

I'd take an Italian course if I became Italian and intended to stay in Italy permanently, I only speak English and a little bit of Spanish/German -- more enough to get a bus ticket or meal or avoid a bar fight in the latter two. But I don't actually have any connection to Italy -- my family on one side is from Poland, another side from Italy, but that was many generations ago. I am an American, I speak American Engli…

In NL, I'd recommend Texel (or maybe Groningen), but it sounds like you're aiming at major urban destinations.

Veel succes!

[Edit: dutch is pretty easy for an anglophone to acquire, but cultural things that might take some acclimatisation include herring and seriously passive-aggressive christmas poetry]

Re: Ask HN: Where Would You Emigrate To?

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Post by 082349872349872 »

cko wrote: post #15

I moved from the US to Romania. The major cities are safe and low-cost. Spain and Portugal are on my radar. The Romanian language can at times sound Italian. You could bounce between the two countries.

polymer currency FTW, too. Is that Edelweiss on the 50?

(just curious: how is the war affecting you all?)

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