I am going back to my native country. For all of you that "know" me or remember my "nickname", you do remember how bad is my opinion about Balkan region. BUT....
Germany is great, for Germans. I do not want to invest years of my life to start from - 100, not from zero. To invest so much time to learn very hard language, to fight for job with Italians (EU passport), Turkish second generation and the list goes on. I didnt quit, I have VISA in my passport but I simply dont think that juice is worth the squeeze.
Apartment is 800 - 1000 euros, starting salary will be around 2000, when you add healthcare, car payment and other stuff, I will have to bust my ass just to survive. I dont even want to quote Charles Bukowski about this one.
I am born individualist, I am born for track & field and I am still very young - 23. I have great respect for Germany and still some respect for Germans. They were very kind to me in this first week. I dont want to take their space, their country, but I also dont want to pay any rent anymore. My business in my native country is doing fine, I will focus on it untill I can move to country where I will move that business also. Sometimes you have to make decisions on time or decade can be lost easily. Important lesson learned, going back to my apartment. Feeling good about it actually, EU isnt for me. Too liberal, too many expenses just so you can survive. US provide some opportunities to create something, maybe, but EU. This is torture for free individual...
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This is because in URBAN areas there are essentially TWO classes -- either "rich" (and or in the prime of major credit-line/high cash-flow, which is different than actual "net worth") -- or else "poor" in which case they take public transport.
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Key there is that is the CITY (URBAN/suburban) phenom. Same is true of ALL countries (Germany, France, England, USA) -- the parasitic immigrants ALWAYS end up in the urban environments (and generally build mini-ghetto enclaves that invariably end up just as shitty as the place they came from). The PRIME reason for that is socialistic government handouts are CHIEFLY an "urban" thing.
-- You want to get away from that, you need to get OUT of the city and into the (productive, typically "farmland") countryside... again doesn't really matter WHICH country it is.
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Ah, spoken like a true dEUtschlander... thoroughly brainwashed & completely emasculated.
You're not by any chance the "guy" at the left of this picture are you? (Pic via this "classic" thread).
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Take that "tip" with several LARGE grains of salt.
I believe /u/MurseTheRN is a city/suburb dweller, and is generalizing from that.
-- As I've said in other notes the major "divide" is increasingly* between CITY versus COUNTRY (Urban VS Rural).
For a variety of reasons -- due to everything from public transport to universities, to governmental bureaucratic offices -- cities (and the surrounding "suburban" metro-areas) are essentially "magnets" for and "breeders" of socialism/socialistic (i.e. parasitic and/or exploitative) mentalities.
To have a GOOD concept (at least in terms of US) about how that divide plays out just do a search for the maps of the recent US Presidential election; compare "TrumpLand" versus the "Clinton Archipelago." The US electorate -- in terms of population numbers -- is about equally divided; but in geographic terms, the vast majority of the country is "TrumpLand."
Among other things that is why the media is so MASSIVELY "skewed" -- all of the major TV networks, news organization, etc -- well they are all HEAVILY centered in the major "urban" areas (hence why essentially every "journalist/talking head" was SHOCKED by Trump's victory -- they're NOT really lying when they say "no one they know voted for Trump" -- it's that they live in an urban "echo-chamber/bubble"; and the majority of the country is just "flyoverland"* to them {apparently only occupied by mythical beasts known as "cows" and "farmers" [whatever they are]}.)
* EDIT: This of course is NOT really anything new. There are the several classic "fish-eye" style illustrations of the typical "New Yorker" view of America -- i.e. that everything of any importance is located IN New York City, even within/on/near "Manhattan Island" -- and that (if forced to try to be more specific about what "flyover land" consists of, they will essentially reveal what is notated on this map).
And of course the west/left coast (whether Seattle/Portland, or SF Bay/Silicon Valley, or LA/Hollywood) have similar "fish-eye" views, whereby they think virtually everything of importance (or value) is near THEM.
To be fair, that sort of distorted "fish eye" view is probably true to some degree of everyone -- our own "locale" is much more familiar to us and so has more subjective importance to us, whereas "distant" places are not just distant, but diminished in all ways.
However I would say that is LESS true of people who live in the country/rural areas (in part because MEDIA is so focused on what happens in/around CITIES; and also because we usually DO travel to & spend time in, shop in/around one or more major "city" areas, whereas the inverse is simply NOT true, city people rarely spend any time OUT in the countryside; it is not a "destination" for them, but rather is literally just "space" they are forced to traverse or travel through or "flyover" on their way to someplace else {usually another CITY on the opposite coast}).
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really??? that's the last place I'd move to, since any random woman can name you as a father of her disgusting spawn and there's nothing you can do about it.
fuck texas
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Sorry to hear it didn't work out, but this:
Well, it makes complete sense to me.
And I think you were WISE to recognize it as fast as you did, and to "pull the plug" before investing too much more of your life (time, effort, resources).
BTW, your English (at least written) is actually fairly good. Seems to me that you could/should be able to "expat" to any number of places in the world (not just Britain or US) that English is the primary "lingua franca" of business, so to speak.
That would include (of course) Britain, USA... but also Canada, Australia, as well any/all of the "commonwealth" and "dominion" countries (i.e. places that used to be part of British Empire, and which HAVEN'T engaged in some racial "purge" of whites); and even various SE Asian "developing nation" places.
* And I am presuming your verbal English isn't too far behind -- but of course I can't discern that from typed comments -- that said so long as your verbal language is "adequate"; being able to read & write (especially the latter) at such a relatively HIGH level as you demonstrate in English is actually FAR more valuable in terms of your life & career.
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Well, if you aren't checking your spelling -- and you are being relaxed/nonchalant about it -- then my estimate of your English language skills has to be raised even HIGHER.*
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If true (which of course I cannot give you an "objective" validation of here) ...then you'll definitely be better off heading somewhere that English is the MAIN (or at worst slightly "secondary") language of business/commerce. (Something that for several reasons -- call it "anti-Americanism" or the remnants of national/ethnic pride, whatever -- simply is not true of France, Germany, etc).
* Don't misunderstand me, your English still does contain elements that reveal you as an ESL (per example "Before I arrived to Germany" is understandable and technically "acceptable" but nevertheless an awkward construct; a native EFL speaker would say "Before I was in Germany" or "Before I got to Germany"; or again "He is friend of my brother so" betrays ESL, as an EFL would write "He's a friend of my brother, so" or even more likely "He's my brother's friend, so")...
-- But -- beyond those kind of (relatively trivial) things -- your English is very well written (i.e. good punctuation, excellent spelling, decent English sentence structure {something that, ironically enough is VERY difficult for Germans, LOL}), and would likely be more than acceptable for most business & technical purposes.
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-- Likely not the particular US State that matters so much as the "stock"* so to speak (though it's politically incorrect to say, IQ/intelligence actually IS largely a genetic-inheritance thing).
And then in addition (to add "nurture" to "nature"), doubtless also the location & the way/manner in which I was raised (rural/country-boy, but somewhat isolated, some work {solid ethic & can-do/DIY mentality} and yet also lots of free-time & plenty of books, machinery, tools & encouragement to use all of them).
So, it's not just that I am not going to name my "state" to avoid being "doxxed" -- but really that I doubt the specific US state I reside in has anything at all to do with my intellect (such as it is... good or bad, LOL).
-- Here's another (IMHO) very IMPORTANT map/view of the USA -- one that you probably won't find in the mainstream media these days (too "racist" & thus "politically incorrect"), but which is actually fairly "telling" -- BTW the large light blue areas of the countryside (or the subtle "gray polygon" that is drawn around it) that's largely "whitopia" (aka almost entirely "white/caucasian" population) and in fact a majority "German" ethnic base population (but Germans who mostly don't speak German anymore, LOL -- ve spek gut English now, ja? -- so most of the things you like about "Germany" but without the language barrier).
-- And I guarantee you what is shown on THAT map -- well it has a very big impact on the "character" of the various regions (particularly in the rural areas; moreso than the cities, which are a lot more, *ahem* "diverse").
-- Also, don't be fooled by the dark gray colored areas that are denoted as "American" -- what that REALLY means is the major population in those areas has such a mixed-up/multi-ethnic ancestry (English, Dutch, German, various Scandinavian, plus Scottish, Welsh, etc etc etc) that they largely don't know WHICH to claim for a "main" ethnic ancestry.
* And in that, I am personally basically "germanic/nordic" mixture, but (mostly on one parental side and entirely on the other) of originally** Schwaben ("Swabian" aka Alemanni or Suebi) stock -- think Bosch, Daimler, Diesel, Heinkel, Kepler, Mergenthaler, Mozart, Rommel, Zeppelin, etc -- or as the current joke-meme if for that region: "Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch."
-- ** Albeit several (multiple) generations removed from Germany/Swabia in one way or another on BOTH my parental sides.
My paternal/patriarchal family being old-stock "Pennsylvania Dutch" and in America for a couple of centuries (since at least prior to the "American Revolution" and near as we can tell, since about 1700 if not earlier, though they moved around a bit).
On the maternal side... a bit more round-about, leaving Swabia (aka "germany", but when it was still a regional name, rather than a formal "nation") around 1800 and heading down the Danube, spending several decades in Ukraine/Russia before emigrating to the "great plains" of the US (ala "Little House on the Prarie") in late 1800's (really LONG story, so won't go into any more detail on that).
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I'd actually normally consider that to be an insult*... but since I know you didn't intend it that way...
;=)
-- * I mean generally speaking I believe I'm a MUCH better & more reliable (and ironically also more "concise" despite the digressions) source than either "NatGeo" or any so called "History" channel.
I do try to provide links, and -- generally speaking** -- I am willing to explain certain things from another angle or to give additional references if needed.
** Presuming I believe the person making the request for more info is serious about learning more (and is not some "troll").
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Ispade sranje i tamo?
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