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Lord Windy
Mar 26, 2010
If you moved you'd lose your most important support network - your family and close friends. At the moment you live better than you would without a family of means. But even a family without means can cook you meals, look after you when you get sick and provide all other kinds of emotional support.

Every country likely has some level of support to assist families with these tasks. Meals on Wheels for example provide cheap meals to those can't always do it themselves. Some countries can provide occasional nursing assistance or convalescence homes, yet there is some expectation that family and friends will provide help. The state is just there to lighten the load to some degree.

So lets say your dreams come true and you move to Australia/Norway/Germany. You get around ~$1k a fortnight, subsidised medicine and government housing (unlikely, but for the sake of argument). What happens when you need help? Who takes you home from hospital if you need an operation?

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