Come to the Netherlands! It’s awesome. And the visa is easy: just put 5k in a business account. Look up Dutch American friendship treaty.
So a business account is one belonging to a business, right?
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#12Leaving now is the best way to ensure things get worse. If you've given up, your vote no longer counts and your voice no longer matters.
You can still vote in the state you are domiciled in (and you have to be domiciled in some state when overseas as a citizen), even when overseas.
I'd recommend establishing that in a swing state.
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#13Coming from Switzerland to the US: I do not want to leave. Everything is better here… maybe not for the average person but for some individuals.
Can you give some examples?
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#14To learn how to leave USA one needs to pass the newyorker paywall.
It’s just click bait, no clue why it’s on hn
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#15To learn how to leave USA one needs to pass the newyorker paywall.
You shall not pass
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#16Great Moments in UX
Below the teaser blurb ending "The Netherlands offers one way out," and the byline, where you'd expect the article to start, is the text "Your window is closing."
Fortunately, if you scroll further, the ominous warning turns out to only be for the paywall.
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#18And go where? Seriously I don’t know of another country that isn’t on the same authoritarian track, if not further along. If anyone has done a serious study and come up with a country that still has strong judicial independence, due process, lack of censorship and respect for private property, Id love to know
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#20Coming from Switzerland to the US: I do not want to leave. Everything is better here… maybe not for the average person but for some individuals.
That's the root of it, isn't it? America is pretty great if you're in the upper 20% or so, and otherwise it's losing ground fast.