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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I seriously almost did this. I visited the Netherlands, and fell absolutely head over heels for their way of life. It's so damn peaceful and free! You don't have to worry about getting shot when you're running errands. You don't have to worry about going bankrupt through medical expenses. You don't have to worry about going to jail over weed or mushrooms. You don't have to buy a car, because bicycling infrastructure and public transportation is AMAZING.

While I was there I met a lovely chap who is originally from England. He told me that he spent a holiday in Amsterdam, and broke his leg. So he stayed at the hospital, and afterwards, just didn't leave. He's been working/living there ever since.

When it came time for me to leave, I had accidentally missed my train, and it was going to be some extra money to switch around my flight/train to get back home, and a part of me was seriously considering just being like "fuck it" and staying. The only thing stopping me from moving there now is the knowledge that I'd have to continue paying taxes to the U.S. if I wanted to keep my citizenship while living and paying taxes in the Netherlands. 😑

If anyone can tell me a way around this... please do, because I want to move to the Netherlands.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I am Dutch but moved to England (for love) 16 years ago and I have never regretted it. Do it while you can, else you will just live with the regret. It is such a life experience moving countries, there is no way to describe it. The magical feeling that you have in the beginning does disappear a little over the years, but it never leaves completely. The memories you create are just so amazing that you will never lose the magical feeling entirely.

Just. Do. It.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Look at Foreign Earned Income Exclusion and Foreign Tax Credit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A guy at work did something like that. Went on vacation for a week, just never returned. Didn't return phone calls or emails. Eventually he popped up on social media about 6 months later and some coworkers spotted him and got the story. If I remember correctly (which I may not), I think his girlfriend convinced him to stay, so he did, and he just ghosted his job.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's the dream

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

moved to somewhere with healthcare instead of health control

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Living the dream or not living anymore, we'll never know

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This post is actually scary. Probably should get in touch with the embassy or something and get a courtesy check done on him?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If he, or the mafia doesn't want him to be found, there's not much you can do.

But in all seriousness: yeah, when someone is missing they should be reported as such at the local police, who can contact the embassy's office in the country they were going on holiday. Many parts of Italy are very safe, rich, modern. But there are also parts where you will get hurt, especially as a tourist. Loads of poverty, gangs, mafia, corruption (particularly the south).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure you are correct about who to contact first but I would get worried the police would say it's out of their jurisdiction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Ah ok. I thought in freedomland it wouldn't be much different, but usually a missing person claim should be passed onto the missing persons division of the responsible police force with a unit like that. But if anyone says "nope, bye" you can always try somewhere else. Or Google it, or ask chat gpt.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

I've had some coworkers that would have made my life better if they'd f'ed off to Italy and never come back.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Something similar happened to a coworker of mine a long time ago. This girl I used to work with, Adriana, her boyfriend, Christopher, called us at work one day one said that she went on vacation and she just never came back. It was a shame too because the guy died in a car crash like a year later. I saw it on the news.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

“What are you cryin’ for?”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Who ish dish?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I worked at a restaurant as a teen. One of the managers went to Hawaii for vacation and never came back. Food service jobs are not hard to find. The bartender he was occasionally fucking was pretty unhappy because he didn't even tell her or call.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Every time I've gone to a beautiful place, (Kauai/Virgin Islands/Moab etc) I've run into former insurance salesman types who just said fuck it, and stayed, and now live in an old school bus and fix outboards or whatever. Often it was precipitated by a big life event like a divorce or a child leaving the nest but sometimes they just bounced. I get it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Makes me wish my career wasn't so fucking niche, for sure

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago

You sure he didn't get kidnapped or run out of money?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I, too, fantasize about my coworkers wondering where I am, cue comedy smash cut to my slowly swinging corpse

If/when I do kms it won't be by hanging but it's a funnier mental image

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's nothing to joke about.

Get help!

Suicide prevention hotlines: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/suicide/suicide-prevention-hotlines-resources-worldwide

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

On antidepressants and in therapy, which is why I am still here. It is funny, though. Imagine it:

Scene: several people are sitting in a zoom call, with cameras on. It's dead silent.

Coworker 1: Should we just get started?

Coworker 2: Probably, pix's missed the other meetings today too, I doubt they'll show up now.

Coworker 3: I'm starting to get pretty sick of them being so unreliable. I hope whatever they're doing instead of at least letting us know they won't be here is important.

Hard cut to my torso and legs, neck and head out of frame, gently swinging suspended above the ground

This continues for a couple seconds, letting the shock factor linger, before the Seinfeld outro slap bass starts playing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Still not funny.

Really: get help! Talk to someone!

There are so many beautiful things to live for. And if it's just very dark humor.

It might seems funny to think in such scenarios but it leads you on a certain path. It's the same if with all other topics. The more you think about it, the more you live in this world / scenario. At one time this world becomes so normal that next - potential dangerous - steps don't seem so crazy, as they might do, judged from the outside.

So please: take care and try to focus on other, positive things in life 😊

You got this, buddy!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

That’s nothing to joke about.

Like hell it isn't. For some of us, joking about these things are how we stave them off.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

He's been sleeping on my couch, smoking weed all day. Plz take him back

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