it is still very easy to get a passport. I helped a friend get theirs last month.
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A passport costs 165 dollaroos? Damn. And I thought the 70 Euro we have to pay was excessive.
nah
Damn it! Who let the bot out?!?!
I said it's for internal testing only.
are you confused by the numbers or the words?
both are concise and to the point, in case someone like you happened upon them.
Man the main problem is that most people understand that traveling abroad with a passport is no guarantee of getting a job abroad.
Even if you travel and you have a remote job, there is no guarantee that your cost of living is gonna go down. Countries change.
Also there is the pesky fact that to be able to work as a vacation stay while being inside another country, you usually need a visa.
Try Panama for example. You can work remotely in there, all good. But you will have to pay for everything in cash because you can't use the ATMs up to certain limits of withdrawals.
Try western union? Good, a chunk of your money is just gone, and that's if they don't catch you transferring money to yourself. They are not a Bank.
Try crypto? That's good too, comes with the expected baggage of taking security on yourself, not the bank. And certainly not "easy" true the standard person who never traveled
Even credit cards have limited use as you need to leave a travel warning to the card. Maybe you renew it, maybe not, but after a time suspicious activity starts to pile up from outside your billing country
Pay rent? In cash. Sure there are landlords that will accommodate for that (for a higher price and good luck complaining about anything. To who?) but most will be subject to taxes on the property and to get discounts on those they need to make a digital invoice for you.
Rent is not cheap in there. Food is cheap but it is getting near international prices since a few years ago
And forget about all the luxuries you have in the usa while living in there.
Someone assaults you or you get robbed or into an incident, car crash, your personals stolen? Forget the cops.
Health? All paid. Not cheap and certainly not easily accessible.
Also insurance. If you are identified as an illegal working abroad, policies you got while in the usa may not cover for that.
Transportation is the easiest one but going everywhere with a cabify or Uber is expensive. Rent a car? Sure, also expensive. Buy a cheap car? Sure. You need legal means on the country to do that. Driving license? Hope you legalized and apostilled that too.
You could become a citizen. But if you have 40k ISD to 750k USD to spare, why the hassle? Stay at the USA.
And that's from the top of my head for one country.
And that's without talking about how you're presence there will make everything expensive for the locals over time
So you not only fucking up your life, but others as well
Truly American collectivism in action
did you make a point?
why do you keep saying lower cost of living?
If you go homeless you can also have a lower cost of living.
Contrary to popular belief, if you're dead, the cost of living is zero.
"why do you keep saying lower cost of living?"
because a lot of americans are poor and scared because they are poor.
abroad, they aren't poor and can save money.
What the fuck are you talking about
I think they think that by having a passport you can go work in another country and skip out on taxes?
I don't know where they got that idea but it's hella wrong.
I'm correct.
Aren't you afraid other countries will treat you the way Americans are treating others? Why not stay and fix your goddamn country.
other countries
I got mine very recently and I'm so happy about it. I'm trying to get my family members to get it as well but they refuse to, it's upsetting.
get a passport and get out of there
What good would it do? Unless you’re planning to overstay a tourist passport entry and become an illegal in that country?
ohet
You are confusing passports and visas.
They are not the same thing.
One is a piece of identification that, if accepted by the destination, allows you temporary entry into the country. That is all.
Visas are very specific for what you are allowed to do, whether it be a student visa, work, or some kind of residency.
I have no idea what you mean by reducing cost of living if your residency is limited and you are paying travel expenses to/from the destination. As far as food goes, yeah, it’s great to experience it, but again no real bearing on the discussion.
"I have no idea what you mean by reducing cost of living"
imagine you have to pay $800 in rent.
that $800 is your cost of living.
imagine that next month you move to a different house that costs $400 in rent.
you move there and now pay $400 per month.
that is a reduced cost of living.
I’ve been traveling longer and I travel for a living, not that any of that is relevant considering the differences between the visa and passport are freely available online, yet you handwave that away. You conveniently sidestep travel costs. Maybe they’re easy for you. That’s not the case for many. I can’t believe you skipped past that along with living expenses. There are serious limitations to who can rent/own in some countries, local banks are usually required, asset transfers abroad are limited by the US along with limitations by the destination countries on how much money a foreigner is allowed to hold in an account. Maybe you’re EU where relocation is relatively simple or some other country where CoL is cheap, I can state for a fact that there are plenty of hurdles to relocating from the US to many countries. We are actively exploring it and it is absolutely not as simple as hopping on a plane, renting a flat, and taking in the local cuisine at the cafe on the corner.
"I’ve been traveling longer"
you've had to look up the difference between passports and visas. you are not a traveler.
I didn’t post the differences between passport and visa for your benefit. I posted it to encourage others to look for themselves. Differences you haven’t explained yet? Why the fuck are you wasting my time when in three separate posts you choose to “nuh uh bro” me and not explain shit. Useless.
I don’t know what to do with your ridiculous views. The facts surrounding immigration and employment in desirable countries is freely available and plainly place plenty of restrictions and barriers to meaningful long-term residency. It’s designed to be hard.
You keep posting your personal views with zero references.
But mostly, If immigration, residency, and employment in foreign countries was cheap and easy like you say everyone would fucking be doing it all the time, not just desperate boat people with nothing to lose.
I’m done with you.
"But mostly, If immigration, residency, and employment in foreign countries was cheap and easy like you say..."
didn't say that.
if you need help, ask.
Go get one, it's only a question of time when you can't anymore.
no it isn't, but they should get one anyway.
Yes it is for a lot of people. Do you think the system will happily keep working for those it persecutes? This is a mistake a lot of Jews, Democrats, LGBT and others make every time the can't imagine their country goes fascist, and it always backfires. Right now of those who're technically eligible for a passport, citizens with migrant origin (or those who "look like it") as well as trans people are already in danger of not being able to flee anymore. The first are persecuted by ICE, the second are being erased and now they (with Musk at the helm) start framing them as terrorists.
You're living under a fascist government, act accordingly and do it swiftly.
"You're living under a fascist government, act accordingly and do it swiftly."
I am definitively not.
as you're an American, I suppose you pay taxes and support that government that you claim upsets you so?
I don't.
sounds like you're the problem.
Am I having a stroke? It looks like you're debating someone but there isn't even a difference of opinion
"Am I having a stroke?"
I can't definitively tell from here, but your typing suggests not.
"It looks like you're debating someone but there isn't even a difference of opinion"
there's a difference of fact, context and "yes" isn't very close to "no".
it isn't good for your stroke anxiety.