• Stupidmanager@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Hello fellow americans! You guys doing OK over there? Things are pretty good here in Spain, language issues my biggest obsticle. But hey, you let me know when we americans are winning ok? Are we winning yet?

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      1 day ago

      How’d you get out? My wife and I would love to move, but my career isn’t exactly in high demand.

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        I’m afraid that my career is in high demand. I’m on a highly qualified worker visa at least until i’m married or hit 5 years (5 years will be first at this rate). Found the role through relocate dot me, had my CV (not resume) all set, lots of “will relocate to EU” messages in there too and was willing to take a huge (75%) paycut. I also sold everything, paid off all my debts and basically moved with just a few suitcases and my dog.

        My advice, it looks glamours but life is not always that way. If you can work it out, take 30-60 days in the country you think you want to live in first. Not vacation, live there. Go shopping (food, clothes, furniture), talk to neighbors, ride transit, get a local cell phone number… everything reasonable. I thrived at this, my Ex did not. And yes, ex… we had other big problems but that was the issue that ended everything. In the end it just took time to land the role and I am happy I did - I want this for a very long time, just didn’t expect to be single :lol:

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      1 day ago

      Shit’s okay in Australia too, we got problems but not openly toxic meat problems.

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          Wasn’t there JUST an outbreak of cyclospora? There are regularly issues with lettuce giving people the shits and more, hear about it at least annually lol. But hey I haven’t got the shits from meat OR veggies, except that one time I ate a chicken calzone I left in my trunk overnight. That was a nice lesson on the “danger zone” of foods …