most requirements to become a permanent resident in another country are draconian. ive read a lot of them. they are. i completely understand undocumented immigrants. it is so difficult to move to a better place
leaving the country involves radically reinventing your life, integrating yourself into a new community, etc. unless you were already planning on moving out or your country has become genuinely unlivable for you i canāt see it being high on your list of priorities
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its not even that i have community here or even just that leaving owuld be really hard itās. so many things.
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yeah driving is the biggest factor for me. i think i integrate well with the US, i just cant drive and i dont think i can learn to. i would be limited a lot
especially when thereās an option to just get $500k. no reason to reinvent the wheel, thatās a lifechanging sum of money to receive. just because itās not lifechanging enough to get you a mansion or a yacht doesnāt mean itās nothing
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nyaaaaaaaaa why couldnāt you learn to
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the forests! the hills, the beaches, the strange little places tucked away in crumbling towns
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If I wanted to move and just couldnāt do so for, like, financial or visa reasons, then Iād select āmove to another countryā, but I was assuming that it doesnāt include family and friends existing/language learning/having a specific job and life set up there. If it did include that stuff then itād probably be higher but still not highest priority
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stars, seas, home, and prison.
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i failed my exam twice, the second time failed immediately because i failed to check for cars behind me and the instructor slammed my breaks coz i was about to crash. i then took another instructor and he had to grab my wheel because i was about to crash while making a turn around a parked car, alone on the road. i dunno, i cant keep attention and i cant judge distance. i kept getting yelled at for not judging the distance. from my pov everything is fine and i didnt understand why my instructors were panicking that i was about to crash. i panic a ton on the road, i hate every minute of it. roads are very small here, itās not car-centric like the US. on some two-way streets in my city its impossible for both lanes to be filled with cars because of parked cars no the sides, thereās not enough space. you need to carefully maneuver close to each other. also 80%+ of cars are manual, most driving instructors offer manual only. i tried the only two ones that offer automatic here. i already struggle with automatic, i dont think i can handle manual like my peers can
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I can definitely see why itād be high priority for some people, though. Itās like. Itās very niche compared to $500,000, but there are situations where moving to another country is harder htan $500,000. Honestly if I were making the poll Iād bump down the money amount a little if I wanted to make it less flattened-out
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in the US itās easier to drive though because most cars are automatic and the roads are wider
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i assumed that it would include visa and the money required just for the trip. and everything else id need to obtain on my own
I think I probably mentally underrate $500,000 a little but like Iām very adjusted to and content with my own financial situation and while $500,000 would make me substantially more comfortable Iām not sure it would make my life more to my aspirations. Iād much rather success and achievement than pure comfort
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this is something that goes away if you do it enough and get confidence
then you start going 80mph+ on the highway without fear
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Like Iām pretty sure Iād just have a short period of āwow things are better nowā then once Iāve adjusted Iād just feel essentially the same as before, material things only are especially liked to me insofar as I can remove immediate sources of distress (like if Iām living in an apartment full of mice which are stressing me out Iād want money to get a better apartment) but my primary problems arenāt money-based so I donāt need that
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this is currently true for me but will likely stop being true once i become a grad student
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so gimme the cushion
Yea thatās why I say I probably underrate it somewhat, itāll be a bigger problem later. But to me things that bring career/life success have the same +stability effect, like if I Meet My Soulmate we will have two incomes, if I have Perfect Mental Health I can avoid scenarios where I become too ill to work, itās greater stability, so Iād rather have that stuff than straight cash
what if your soulmate is mega rich and also can bend light
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