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Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands
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#32Better explain to me how to get to the USA.
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#34Come to the Netherlands! It’s awesome. And the visa is easy: just put 5k in a business account. Look up Dutch American friendship treaty.
But finding housing is brutal.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the boat is sinking, I wouldn't stay on.
If this boat sinks there will not be places you can hide in
The USA is important, but not *that* important.
Even the British survived the end of the British empire, and that was bigger relative to the world than the US is now.
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#36Went for dinner with a Parisian friend of mine. He spent a good amount of it complaining that Paris is unrecognizable from his youth. Too many Americans, everywhere!
Yikes. There are lot of black people in Paris, but they're not necessarily American. In fact, most of them are from African French colonies.
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#37Coming 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.
When you say 'everything is better' are you just talking about higher compensation > *? Cause I can think a number of 'quality of life' things that europe does better.
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#38Lol. I know what the comments will be. And the US is one of the top immigrant countries in the world. Always worth reflecting why people choose that when there is greener gras.
> And the US is one of the top immigrant countries in the world. Always worth reflecting why people choose that
It's nowhere the top as a percent of the total population. It's at the top in absolute number because it's the largest developed country by far.
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#39Reëlection?
The New Yorker house style.
https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2020/03/24/umlauts-diaereses-...
Seems weird to me, I'd just use a hyphen, but that's how they roll.
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#40Reëlection?
Explanation here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
> [...] we have three options for these kinds of words: “cooperate,” “co-operate,” and “coöperate.” Back when the magazine was just getting started, someone decided that the first misread and the second was ridiculous, and adopted the diaeresis as the most elegant solution with the broadest application.