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> In practice it's nonsense to pretend you can just turn up. No, in practice it's nonsense to pretend you can't. You can rent short term apartments (airbnbs f

by haspok 4y ago

> In practice it's nonsense to pretend you can just turn up. No, in practice it's nonsense to pretend you can't. You can rent short term apartments (airbnbs for example, but there are other services). Or you can just stay at hotels. Why would you need extra car insurance? Is your car insurance not valid for all of Europe? Why would you need access to the health service (beyond emergencies, which are already covered by your EU insurance card)? Occasinal ID checks? But what do they check? They can check if your ID card is valid and you are not wanted for crime. Sure, you leave some minimal paper trail, but in reality no one ever checks, no one knows, no one cares. I'm not saying anybody SHOULD do this, but there are some people who definitely COULD.

logifail 4y ago
> Why would you need extra car insurance? Is your car insurance not valid for all of Europe? Check the wording of your car insurance policy. I doubt regular car insurance covers moving abroad without telling them. Oh, and the vehicle registration isn't going to be valid either[0]. Let's say our hypothetical person has a car accident, a serious one, where the police get involved. She was driving her (say) Swedish car, with [technically invalid] Swedish insurance, with [technically invalid] Swedish registration and number plates, they ask her for her ID, she shows her Swedish ID card [can't show a residency permit, she chose not to get one]. One big hole she digs herself if she starts lying to the police. A different hole, but a hole nevertheless, if she tells the truth. > I'm not saying anybody SHOULD do this [..] Quite > but there are some people who definitely COULD. (Not wishing to sound too old and grumpy) but there might just be a whiff of this sounding like it's the story of young privileged well-off types who can't be bothered to follow rules everyone else has to, thinking it doesn't apply to them, and expecting to get away with it when things go wrong? :) [0] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/vehicles/registration/registration-abroad/index_en.htm https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/vehicles/registration/...

by haspok 4y ago

logifail 4y ago

> Why would you need extra car insurance? Is your car insurance not valid for all of Europe? Check the wording of your car insurance policy. I doubt regular car insurance covers moving abroad without telling them. Oh, and the vehicle registration isn't going to be valid either[0]. Let's say our hypothetical person has a car accident, a serious one, where the police get involved. She was driving her (say) Swedish car, with [technically invalid] Swedish insurance, with [technically invalid] Swedish registration and number plates, they ask her for her ID, she shows her Swedish ID card [can't show a residency permit, she chose not to get one]. One big hole she digs herself if she starts lying to the police. A different hole, but a hole nevertheless, if she tells the truth. > I'm not saying anybody SHOULD do this [..] Quite > but there are some people who definitely COULD. (Not wishing to sound too old and grumpy) but there might just be a whiff of this sounding like it's the story of young privileged well-off types who can't be bothered to follow rules everyone else has to, thinking it doesn't apply to them, and expecting to get away with it when things go wrong? :) [0] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/vehicles/registration/registration-abroad/index_en.htm https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/vehicles/registration/...