How do I move to another country as an American citizen?

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Jeza: Feb 13, 2011; The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

Sometimes, I reflect that a large slice of people are mentally incapable of handling the free flow of information available on the internet. Sorry you weren't born in the past OP, when you could have lived a life of blissful ignorance.

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Jeza: Feb 13, 2011; The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

SurfaceDetail posted:

If you have a decent job america literally is the nicest place to live on earth to be honest.

What are you basing that on? Have you lived everywhere in the world?

# ¿ Aug 6, 2016 19:01

Jeza: Feb 13, 2011; The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

Accurately or not, people tend to define immigrants as aspirational and expats as being from places with high QoL already. Also, mild racism.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2016 10:18

Jeza: Feb 13, 2011; The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

Tequila Sunrise posted:

Since this thread is now just about languages or whatever, what is the attitude of French and German speakers towards foreigners trying to speak their languages?

I've never been to France but I've heard that many French people don't like foreigners trying to speak French to them, because they butcher the language or something. I had this confirmed by one of my French friends ("Just speak English, most of us do anyway"), but to be fair he's kind of a twat so I don't know if that's the general consensus. Is it the same in Germany?

I only ask because I've lived in Asia for a while now and in every country I've been to people have been overly-enthusiastic about me speaking even a tiny bit of the local language. It's nice that people are encouraging, but people telling me "You're so good at X language!" because I can ask what time it is also gets kind of old.

I didn't read any of the posts in between but French people love people attempting to speak French. They, more than most, like to watch tourists at least attempt to speak their language rather than just launching into English and assuming they will respond. I have seen French people feign being unable to speak English to some person, then speak it 5 minutes later fluently to somebody who at least attempted to ask them a question in French.

They are kinda prideful about their language, although I get the sense that newer generations are a bit rebellious against that whole thing. They are usually pretty happy to speak English.

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