• Sunflier@lemmy.world
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      Right? The ecconomic benefits, the lack of financial catastrophy from suffering a paper cut, living wages, acessible mass transit, and the political stability. It must be like waking up every day in a dream.

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        Unfortunately the combined forces of US and Russian propaganda machines try very hard to ruin it for us, and they see some success in depleting EU membership support in polls and various political unrests

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        8 hours ago

        “Politic stability”

        Hahaha…Good joke…

        To be fair, it isnt as bad in the USA but you can’t really say it is really stable. The far right and conservatives are getting stronger and the left/right trench is getting bigger

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          The US is exceptionally stable. Their current administration has been demolishing their country for an year and they’re still in power, with support from the other branches of government.

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            Having lived in a couple of countries in Europe, from The Netherlands which has Proportional Vote system and a thus a multitude of small parties to Britain with a First Past The Post system like the US and thus pretty much a Two Party System, I’ve concluded that at least in Politics stability is just like standing water - it invariably turns into a swamp.

            We need some amount of constant change to bring up and flush out the rot that innevitably accumulates in the murky waters of a system were power is always in the hands of a subset of people who are all in the same social circles, went to the same schools and whose sons and daughters marry each other.

            Not “Daily Revolution”, just regular change so that any funny business going on outside the public eye risks being brought to light, destroyed and the guilty people punished because power has changed has to people who aren’t mates of the crooks that did it.

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          7 hours ago

          We may don’t get multi 6-figure jobs, but we also don’t have to pay 5-figures to visit a healthcare place and fear for our lives by being at will employed. And the CoL is probably also way lower in comparison.

          I’d rather continue living here than in USA

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            2 hours ago

            At least in Europe housing is at the moment proportionally to incomes just as bad as in the US.

            Totally agree on Health, though.

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        It’s not a simple thing. You really need some personal tie like ancestry or marriage, go to a university, or be sponsored for work.

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          I don’t think that’s true. Granted I am from here but just to come and start to work us citizens find it way easier than other nationals. Take it in small steps. Most countries allow you to apply for citizenship after 5 years. You just have to find work and accommodation. Some countries do require proof of ancestry like Ireland but there are many others that dont. Some even have free universities like the Nederland or Germany and they teach in English.

          I may not know all the subtleties so don’t quote me on that!