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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 many non EU countries. (Like a typical American, I only speak English, though I know enough German and Spanish to navigate public transit()

>Don't say that. Don't even joke about that. You must have no oversea-living experience

I've presented scientific research on three continents.

> If the 'worser' happens, it could be a literal 'get out of jail Free card' for you, depending on the diplomatic relations between the US and that country.

I know what the State Department is, Sean "vilerat" Smith is one of the folks who tried to recruit me into the Central Intelligence agency, and I had a "get out of jail free card" in grad school -- they told me as long as the FBI doesn't kick in my adviser's door, I can do whatever I want in the state of Indiana.

(Except, apparently, drop out with a master's and work a job that pays a fair wage for my skills and abilities, but I learned a lot in Bloomington.)

Maybe your friend in Milano and I can connect? I know a lot about cybersecurity, but since I was an altar server and raised Catholic, and thus do not believe in murder, I have issues in America.

(The pope famously said you must go to confession if you volunteer to kill someone in Iraq, a war started when I was a minor, and I told many people in my hometown I will not work for an organization that builds robots to kill brown people at a dinner where they stood around joking that maybe Han's Reiser's wife deserved it -- which was dark as hell since they'd printed a placard for him but he obviously could not attend. Combine those views with the issues you have in Appalachia if you're an exCatholic Me-Too advocate, and you'll begin to understand why I am writing, in increasing detail, why I feel unwelcome in my country of birth.)

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> 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!

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Thanks I know it would take a long time hence thinking hard where I will end up.

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Of course, the flip side is having put in those ~5 years, you will have also gained social and political changes which I see as unlikely as occurring in the Old Country on a time scale shorter than ~25, if ever.

(you mentioned NDP: I'm not up on CA politics, but would guess that'd put you firmly centre-left here, with Socialists and Greens as major parties who are even further left)

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And in the USA it engenders such severe and persistent harassment you need to emigrate if your candidates win and your opponents lose.

(Congrats to Ed Gainey, and Mike Doyle should make sure the door doesn’t hit him in the ass on the way out.)

I’ve started to just describe myself as “left libertarian” to avoid getting into semantic slapfights with adjuncts who argue over the views of dead White Russian men instead of dead white Americans.

(People forget that George Washington was an independent and things have been going downhill in this country ever since IMHO)

The greens here are morons who got signal boosted in such a way they killed a generation of nuke plants that could have bridged the gap to solar and opened the door to fracking as they took cushy organizing jobs that do nothing but unionize other cushy nonprofit jobs while the minimum wage hadn’t been raised since I made my first emigration attempt in approximately 2009, after the Pittsburgh G20