So another thread ( https://lemmy.world/post/17746018 ) got me wondering… How many people would want to move to another country?
Just to provide a concrete scenario, let’s assume that in your current country you (magically) have a decent-ish job. They open up offices in another country of your choosing, and you have the option of moving there and work for an equivalent living wage.
They’re able to get visas set up (however improbable that may be) for you and any family, but you have to go through the process of finding housing, physically moving your belongings and anything else you need to set up.
What countries would you take the offer to move to, if any?
I’d take a little canal boat in Amsterdam. Though learning Dutch sounds like a PITA.
It’s probably the easiest language for a native English speaker to learn
It is. Our grammar rules are nonsensical and Dutch is useless outside of the Netherlands and Belgium.
You probably picture that as a cheap bohemian lifestyle but these things will cost you like 2M€ to buy + untold yearly fees lol.
That’s significantly more than I expected. Also, I probably wouldn’t want to deal with the toilet situation. Would probably be novel for a couple weeks and get old quick.
I might be slightly exaggerating depending on how big it is and location but yeah everything in Amsterdam is crazy expensive. The toilet situation is pretty normal these days I think? I think they get plugged into the normal sewer systems, the days of it just falling into the canals are long gone (but that’s also a part of the yearly expenses along with mooring costs, property taxes and so on). Also you can’t even mortgage these things normally because banks consider them high risk so you get less advantageous terms (higher costs, bigger down payment, etc).
Did a quick check and yeah I was massively exaggerating, you can get some in the 600k to 1.3M€ for small ones with mooring in the center, which is still pretty unaffordable for normal people but not as outlandish as I made it out to be. The points about additional costs to the city and the mortgage stuff remains though.