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Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:47:34
I'm not going to do it, but I've definitely spent more and more time looking at homes in Italy and what I would have to do to move there.
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Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:58:20
robio said:
I'm not going to do it, but I've definitely spent more and more time looking at homes in Italy and what I would have to do to move there.

I've considered Spain and France.

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Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:58
We considered Spain for a while, but over the past couple months they've started changing laws to make it harder for foreigners to buy homes and live there.

All jokes aside though, I have three friends who have moved to Mexico and Portugal in the past 2 months. All three are members of the alphabet mafia and just don't feel safe here anymore. And I really don't blame them.
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Fri, 14 Feb 2025 01:02:11

Portugal could be nice as well.

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Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:33:04

Don't move to Spain, France, or, God forbid, Italy to avoid absurdist right-wing politics. The lattermost literally invented them.

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Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:28:00
What is the alphabet mafia?

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Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:04:09

LGBTQ

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Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:09:17
Foolz said:

Don't move to Spain, France, or, God forbid, Italy to avoid absurdist right-wing politics. The lattermost literally invented them.

Foolz said:

Don't move to Spain, France, or, God forbid, Italy to avoid absurdist right-wing politics. The lattermost literally invented them.

yeah I'm well aware. That second where the fantasy starts turning into a fact-finding mission always ends in disappointment. Then I will say on my tick tock a couple months ago, I started getting bombarded with realtors from Tuscany, and I got to admit I completely understand how just of you can sell you on something.
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Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:37:12
robio said:

yeah I'm well aware. That second where the fantasy starts turning into a fact-finding mission always ends in disappointment. Then I will say on my tick tock a couple months ago, I started getting bombarded with realtors from Tuscany, and I got to admit I completely understand how just of you can sell you on something.

My own fantasy is imagining American refugees fleeing to Holland and encountering Black Pete, or other such European phenomena! There's probably a Tiktok for that, too.

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Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:20:53
Foolz said:

My own fantasy is imagining American refugees fleeing to Holland and encountering Black Pete, or other such European phenomena! There's probably a Tiktok for that, too.

You're already too late for that.  Every yeare there's a big kerfuffle about Black Pete and how it's a racist tradition.  so half the time it's Soot Pete these days.

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Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:22:00
You guys should come and live in the English countryside.

It will be glorious and peaceful. Before the council informs you they're turning the fields behind your house into a garbage dump, motorway or flats for city folk.

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Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:49:27
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You're already too late for that.  Every yeare there's a big kerfuffle about Black Pete and how it's a racist tradition.  so half the time it's Soot Pete these days.

They'll be right at home. My dream is ruined. Sad

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Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:06:58
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You guys should come and live in the English countryside.

This feels like it would be a lateral move

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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:05:39
Ellyoda said:
gamingeek said:
You guys should come and live in the English countryside.

This feels like it would be a lateral move

Yeah, plus the weather. Australia is amazing for quality of life, and the politics can be easily ignored as they are irrelevant. Other than the taxes. I pay a third. But I'll take it.

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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:18:41

There's literally this country village here.

They built a waste incinerator behind this small housing development surrounded by fields.

Now it's a village that reeks of burning garbage. The residents can't sell their property as no one wants to move there. The windows are permanently closed, they can't use their back yards and there are flies everywhere.

UK in a nutshell.

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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:53:14

The UK Department of Immigration and Relocation is about to send GE a strongly worded letter for this.

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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:38:17

They'll mean it too!

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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:18:30
aspro said:

Yeah, plus the weather. Australia is amazing for quality of life, and the politics can be easily ignored as they are irrelevant. Other than the taxes. I pay a third. But I'll take it.

man, I wish I paid a third. I pay over half, easily.
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Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:37:31
SupremeAC said:
aspro said:

Yeah, plus the weather. Australia is amazing for quality of life, and the politics can be easily ignored as they are irrelevant. Other than the taxes. I pay a third. But I'll take it.

man, I wish I paid a third. I pay over half, easily.

And I thought working for the government for 4 months was a crime!

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Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:08:34
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And I thought working for the government for 4 months was a crime!

Just do what a local influencer and onlyfans model did.  And I don't mean stream yourself in spicy undies, but stop paying taxes altogether!  But then do not do what she did, namely openly talk about it in an interview.

She said she stopped paying after she found it 'unfair' how the government 'took so much of her hard earned money' from her.  That was 2 years ago.  Government looked into her accounting and recently asked for €50.000 in due taxes + a hefty fine.  Her lawyer is playing the 'she's just a young entrepreneur who was a bit sloppy with her accounting' card.  Not sure how that will work out in light of the interview.

Stories like that can really make my day.  LOL

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