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I agree. I miss a lot of home (family, taco bell, friends, some freedoms) but I really do enjoy the healthcare, the lack of anxiety from gun violence, the stabl

I agree. I miss a lot of home (family, taco bell, friends, some freedoms) but I really do enjoy the healthcare, the lack of anxiety from gun violence, the stable government, and the lack of stress. I am trying to get folks I know to move out of the US, too!

CalRobert 3y ago
Hah! Admittedly good taco shops and In-N-Out are something I miss about the bay, along with many other wonderful things. I wouldn't mind at least _some_ of that can-do spirit and willingness to take risks, either, cheesy as it sounds. I bring up US working holiday visa arrangements (with Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea), the Dutch American Friendship Treaty (surprisingly straightforward way to live in the Netherlands if you can employ yourself), recent loosening of German immigration rules, and oddball options like the French Foreign Legion or living in Svalbard far too often in casual conversation.
- gigatexal 3y ago
  I have had authentic Tacos and I do love them and real Mexican food ... but there's something visceral, nostalgic, about Taco Bell. It was the first meal I can remember we ever had growing up that wasn't cooked at home (we never ate out, we always had home cooked food and then one day mom was just tired and we hit up the local TacoBell and I was hooked ever since). And then the only happy memory with my Dad was at a Taco Bell with him throwing way too many hot sauce packets on the hard shelled tacos (he was East Indian so chewing on habeneros at the store and picking the hotter ones was a normal thing so...), shortly after this random experience, he passed away suddenly while on a business trip. Anyway, I miss that greasy, bastardization of the taco... Immigration and liberal laws unto it will save nations I think. Countries going forward will need skilled labor more than ever as birth rates fall. Germany has been good to me, Berlin especially, but if I were to do it all over again, I'd try my hardest to get placed at a company in Amsterdam. What an amazing place that place is.
  - CalRobert 3y ago
    Perhaps you have a Dutch vacation coming soon! https://tacobell.nl/en/ https://tacobell.nl/en/ I have similar fond memories of Taco Bell. The 59, 79, 99 cent menu sustained me as a teenager. As it turns out I am forming a BV and working on moving to Utrecht in the next few months. Ireland was good to me as well, but has not been a great place to raise kids.
    - gigatexal 3y ago
      Is a BV like an LLC or something? If you’re starting a company then all the best! I hope it works out!
- gigatexal 3y ago
  Also had no idea about this, thank you! /me google's "Dutch American Friendship Treaty"...
yowzadave 3y ago
Curious where you moved to?

CalRobert 3y ago

Hah! Admittedly good taco shops and In-N-Out are something I miss about the bay, along with many other wonderful things. I wouldn't mind at least _some_ of that can-do spirit and willingness to take risks, either, cheesy as it sounds. I bring up US working holiday visa arrangements (with Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea), the Dutch American Friendship Treaty (surprisingly straightforward way to live in the Netherlands if you can employ yourself), recent loosening of German immigration rules, and oddball options like the French Foreign Legion or living in Svalbard far too often in casual conversation.

gigatexal 3y ago
I have had authentic Tacos and I do love them and real Mexican food ... but there's something visceral, nostalgic, about Taco Bell. It was the first meal I can remember we ever had growing up that wasn't cooked at home (we never ate out, we always had home cooked food and then one day mom was just tired and we hit up the local TacoBell and I was hooked ever since). And then the only happy memory with my Dad was at a Taco Bell with him throwing way too many hot sauce packets on the hard shelled tacos (he was East Indian so chewing on habeneros at the store and picking the hotter ones was a normal thing so...), shortly after this random experience, he passed away suddenly while on a business trip. Anyway, I miss that greasy, bastardization of the taco... Immigration and liberal laws unto it will save nations I think. Countries going forward will need skilled labor more than ever as birth rates fall. Germany has been good to me, Berlin especially, but if I were to do it all over again, I'd try my hardest to get placed at a company in Amsterdam. What an amazing place that place is.
- CalRobert 3y ago
  Perhaps you have a Dutch vacation coming soon! https://tacobell.nl/en/ https://tacobell.nl/en/ I have similar fond memories of Taco Bell. The 59, 79, 99 cent menu sustained me as a teenager. As it turns out I am forming a BV and working on moving to Utrecht in the next few months. Ireland was good to me as well, but has not been a great place to raise kids.
  - gigatexal 3y ago
    Is a BV like an LLC or something? If you’re starting a company then all the best! I hope it works out!
gigatexal 3y ago
Also had no idea about this, thank you! /me google's "Dutch American Friendship Treaty"...

yowzadave 3y ago

Curious where you moved to?