Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Nah itās not too bad the IRS guide is only 40 pages! somebody save me
I havenāt run through this in practice yet and I will probably give up and hire a professional.
I think thereās also some kind of at-time exit tax if you ever decide to give up US citizenship, but Iām not good on the details
Iāve semi-seriously said elsewhere that the US treats its citizens as property (in the āas slavesā sense), and itās fucked how close to true that is
glad to read youāre making some headway on getting the fuck out though!
Yeah Iāll probably have a big tax bill if I ever renounce citizenship. I havenāt thought about it too much yet since itās still my only citizenship, and I have a lot of friends and family in the USA. Like being a visitor might be fine in normal times, but I wouldnāt want to rely on it in an emergency today given how visitors are being treated lately.
'Till now I was always able to just do financial planning myself, but I really should hire a professional.
absolutely worth it given your coming plans. sucks because yet more expenditure but your happiness and safety are more important
Sounds like getting a professional to file it (at least the first time) will in the end cost less.
But congratulations on the move!
Iām interested in jetting out as well. Did you get a job first? Or did you do something similar to Germanyās āOpportunity Visaā?
An internal transfer at my job actually. At least for now they need me so helped set that up, though Iām pretty worried on if that will last long enough for permanent residency or not.
Iād be a little nervous on a job seekerās visa before knowing the language. It is really hard to find a job as a programmer in Europe without living there or being a citizen; because of language barriers, the labor market test, and the difficulty in getting a company to sponsor your visa. I didnāt send out that many job applications but so far my response rate is zero.
Probably if I couldnāt do a transfer Iād have ended up on an investment visa or study visa somewhere; though maybe I could have found a job in Japan since I can read intermediate Japanese.
I expect learning German to the B1 level will open up a lot of doors, so thatās my main goal for the next few years.
Anecdata: if youāre working in IT in Sweden you can get away with just English. I know a guy living in Berlin who hasnāt
botheredgot around to learning German yet, he also manages with English.But itās a big Community and different parts have different requirements and of course different expectations.
Oof im sorry, that sounds horrible. But hey welcome in the modern world, your other taxes will prob not be that much trouble.