France has pretty liberal laws regarding work visas for people who work from home IIRC. Poland does too, but that doesn't really address the issue of the day.
I'm heading to Madrid in late July. Perhaps I'll just stay. I'm ace at ordering food in Spanish - so that's a start.
In all honesty, I've been telling my wife for a few years now that we need to get out of Dodge. She's finally on board (sorta). I'll keep you posted. Don't really need to stick around for the Handmaid's Tale simulation that's impending.
I scratched my head slightly then put 2 and 2 together to know where this was comin from. I was away from the news sources today while I watched my son's college team launch a rocket at Spaceport America. (ending in what I believe is called "rapid disassembly"). So didn't see the Supremes ruling until recently. I'm with you 100%. About 30 years ago I gave some serious thought to working in France, but at that time it didn't look very likely. But that was only to broaden myself by living abroad again, getting fluent in another language, etc. But now as my wife and I start to have somewhat serious discussions about leaving USA, it's obviously motivated by completely different reasons... manifesting an escape. Completely agree with the latter. But for me I give UK more credit than USA (maybe I'm being generous) *and* in my case there's always the deep and emotional attachment to a certain team in red & white, and to a place I lived and loved in my teens.
I've never been unsympathetic. The reason why I'm an American is because by grandparents' parents fled Austria-Hungary on the eve of WW1. I get it. Maybe it's time for me to return?
To add to your (our) concerns, Thomas is inviting states to bring cases on access to birth control and same sex marriage to SCOTUS. I almost left in the 70s, but I’m to old to uproot now.
i mean, retirement age isn't far off and spending much of it back in thailand is ever increasing in appeal.
England women beat Netherlands 5-1 in a friendly. I only just saw the highlights, but I thought it was notable that there were at least 6 Gunner gals in this match, 4 of which are our current players. And one of whom, Beth Mead, kept up her hot form by scoring a brace… the 2nd one with utimate confidence and aplomb. Oh, and perhaps also notable that they played in each other‘s colors: England in all orange, and Holland in white shirts with blue shorts. Go figure.
England women are dope with a good coach I think they can win the euros also USA is a nutty fundamentalist country (why don’t they invade themselves?) England is also a shit show, we have a comedy right wing leader that lies all the time, helps the rich and bleeds middle/lower class people dry we are coming up to a massive crisis that is seeing thousands strike (good for them) and the reality of brexit is crippling the country I also want to leave, Spain and France and Italy are beautiful places with great food etc but economic issues Germany seems a good option or maybe a Nordic country? Ireland is a country that likes Americans too, I am not sure if the visa thing works both ways? the world has gone mad, I was saying to my wife last night it feels close to a catastrophic event either a world war or climate disaster that is required to change the capitalist mentality of people that’s killing the planet
Sadly we have invaded ourselves, we kill each other at an alarming rate. In the words of Pogo, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
As more Millenials start hitting the 40 mark I think we are going to start seeing just how conservative we are as a group. Lately my social circle has started expanding again, and I'm hearing a lot of the same sort of talk. The "excesses" we used to shrug our shoulders at, the people we used to just appease or ignore personally are starting to impact how people are raising their families. RvW isn't going to be the last reversal seeming from no where reversal. I think it's probably going to be either new legislation about parental rights of the father, something about behaviour during pride (so restrictions of what constitutes reasonable expression), or changes to family law. I don't really think any western culture is going to be free of it. London has become more socially conservative since I showed up a couple years ago.
Historically speaking, evolution of civil rights only goes backwards when democracy is ceded to authoritarianism. For America to revert back to a more broadly socially conservative society would require legislating away the rights of certain groups and practices based on either random or theocratic principles, either of which would erode the constitution. This isn't impossible in the US, but it would signal the possible end of the US as a democracy. If, as they say, pop culture is 10 years ahead and politics 10 years behind, then there's hope in that the generations who grew up on John Wayne-era American mythology will fade and be replaced by those who grew up knowing a lot more about the world and other cultures. That's my hope as a father, anyway. Sent from my moto g power (2021) using BigSoccer mobile app
There's a whole treatise I could write about all this shit, but no one wants to read that. All I can say is that I can't abide by this country anymore. I'm tired of being subjected to theocratic nonsense and self-serving hypocrisy. The "American Dream" is a lie and I'm over it. This place is trash. I will miss baseball though.
i know numbers aren't everything but those are crazy filled in chart for tarkowski. i hadn't expected numbers so high for him.
That’s because Burnley are shit bad teams can make players look better, especially keeper and defenders