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That's a big life decision. I've lived in Europe my whole life, but I have a lot of friends and relatives in the US. I've also lived in 3 different European countries, and of course I know people from just about all the Western European nations. There's a lot got you to think about. This is only a small part, off the top of my head: - If you're American, you pay tax worldwide. Most countries have higher tax than the…
That's a big life decision. I've lived in Europe my whole life, but I have a lot of friends and relatives in the US. I've also lived in 3 different European countries, and of course I know people from just about all the Western European nations. There's a lot got you to think about. This is only a small part, off the top of my head: - If you're American, you pay tax worldwide. Most countries have higher tax than the…
if I have family there do I still need visa to live with them?
Cars, especially nice ones, are much more expensive (in absolute numbers, not only as percentage of income) to buy and own. Petrol is several times the US price.
Rents are higher in most cities (at least compared to income). Maybe only SV is worse compared to Europe.
All tech gadgets are more expensive, roughly at +20% in absolute terms, because of VAT
And yeah, on top of that you get "free" healthcare, which is usually of very questionable quality.
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if I have family there do I still need visa to live with them?
You will unless they are closely related enough to give you citizenship rights. Nationality law is completely different from country to country within Europe, though.
Do remote work for US company...
I did this: moved to the U.K. for several years. To echo some of the other excellent comments here, I think the main takeaways should be: 1. Compensation is generally lower than in the US. That's worth keeping in mind depending on your age & long terms plans, if you have those already. Don't let it turn you off from the idea, because living elsewhere can be wonderful, but it's worth being clear that this probably isn…
I think the cheapest European citizenship you can buy is Maltese citizenship for just €650k + 25-50k each for spouse and children. Maltese citizens have visa-free access to 168 countries and territories, thus ranking the Maltese passport 9th in the world (the highest ranking of all the recent new member states of the EU) according to the Visa Restrictions Index. check out http://www.maltaimmigration.com/
Do remote work for US company...
I can't find even remote work inside the US lol I know HTML, CSS and basic JS
I know HTML, CSS, JS, C++, C#, PHP and Hack - and I often can't find work because the bar of competence for many programming jobs still requires knowledge of frameworks, libraries and processes that I don't have experience with, and because the freelance market is global. It can be difficult to tick all the boxes and stand out in a crowd of millions.