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NGL, not asking for a friend. Given the current trends in US politics, it seems prudent to at least look into it.

Most of the online content on the topic seems to be by immigration attorneys hustling ultra rich people. I'm not ultra rich. I have a job in tech, could work remotely, also have enough assets to not desperately need money if the cost of living were low enough.

I am a native English speaker, fluent enough in Spanish to survive in a Spanish speaking country. I am old, male, cis, hetero, basically asexual at this point. I am outgoing, comfortable among strangers.

What's good and bad about where you live? Would it be OK for a outsider, newcomer?

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[–] multicolorKnight@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I never even considered the UK, in spite of having English friends here in the states, and US friends currently living there, and enjoying it. My limited knowledge is that visa issues are problematic, and the cost of living is rather high. Culturally it would be great.

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The UK spent hundreds of years searching for and taking home all the culture they could due to specifically not having any culture whatsoever back home. They also used that culture like they used their spices, which is not at all. The English are a terrible example of humanity and should not be recognized as anything other than the barbarians they are.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There's much more to culture than artifacts. Besides a few encounters in London, I've seldom encountered "terrible examples of humanity" here. Mostly, people are friendly, or at worst, indifferent.

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 0 points 6 days ago

Just like the "nice" Germans right around 1935 and 1940

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The UK should absolutely give back cultural artifacts it took from around the world, but everything else you said is silly.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I think that was the point. To be silly.