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If he's American he should take into account that we have no safety net, so he has to be careful how he does this.
by cm2012 5y ago
If he's American he should take into account that we have no safety net, so he has to be careful how he does this.
- throwaway292893 5y agoAh yes the standard vacationed too long safety net. There's unemployment and welfare for those who need it, not SWEs that don't want to work. Don't work safety nets into your plans, they are for people in need, you are taking away finite resources from people who need them if you use social programs when you are able to work.
- amacneil 5y agoIt depends what you mean by safety net. Certainly most folks on HN have the safety net of being able to return to work fairly easily whenever they might choose to, including finding remote work. If you mean "individual healthcare in the US is expensive", I absolutely agree. Assuming you are otherwise healthy, catastrophic health insurance might be worth looking into (I have never tried it myself). Another option would be to travel internationally, because travel insurance (or even the cost of private care) in most other countries is going to be much cheaper than a domestic health plan.
- curiousgal 5y agoOn the other hand he can actually take off and go wherever he wants thanks to his American passport.
- underyx 5y agoAh yes, the world's 45th most powerful passport. [0]: https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php
- anm89 5y agoThis is a pretty dishonest way to present this IMO. I've been traveling for the last 10 years and my American Passport never got in my way, and in exceptionally few cases would anything have been any easier with the passport from the #1 country on the list. Yes a few times I had to fill out some extra paperwork. America has a VERY STRONG passport. This is a bimodal distribution where most of the passports in each of the groups are equivalent to each other and the US is in group A.
- cm2012 5y agoLOL at United Arab Emirates passport being preferable to the USA.
- dillondoyle 5y agoIt seems like this is hugely effected by covid ban right now. A large % of countries that are just enter - italy as an example - are counted as Red given the covid ban.
- underyx 5y agoYes, OP is thinking about leaving now.