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Ricky_CIA 31 points ago +31 / -0

I love pointing out to the "we can take care of everybody" people the immigration policies of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, every non-shithole tainted country left on the planet and they're dumbfounded.

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tholins 24 points ago +24 / -0

The gum balls video is also pretty good. But yeah, most Americans have no idea how tight immigration policies are in almost every other country.

What shut my husband up was me telling him that my grandmother lost most of her state Medicare benefits because the program had to be defunded to pay for illegals. While his grandmother is comfy in a beautiful church-run nursing home staffed by college volunteers and nuns in his lily-white region of Ohio. How would you like it if your grandmother lost that place because illegals overran it? And was dying before her time because of lack of care?

He didn’t have a response to that, and at least it got him thinking. Most people in the rest of the country are just never confronted with this shit.

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FireannDireach 12 points ago +12 / -0

Someone in my family tried the "Trump got elected, I'm moving to Ireland!" temper tantrum.

The irish flat out told her, unless she had a Ph.D or a lot of money, fuck off.

MUCH salt flowed then.

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LightSpeedTrumpTrain 10 points ago +10 / -0

can you explain? i like to peddle these to liberals

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Ebbie8708 21 points ago +21 / -0

These countries have immensely strong immigration stances.

I.e Canada doesn’t grant citizenship to anyone who has a disability that would be on the government’s dime.

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FL2PC72LE 11 points ago +11 / -0

New Zealand is really strict. You cannot emigrate there unless you prove that you will be an asset rather than a liability. They already have enough non-producers.

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Abovethefray 8 points ago +8 / -0

Maoris have entered the chat?

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FL2PC72LE 7 points ago +7 / -0

And I was being so careful how I said it! =)

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Ricky_CIA 5 points ago +5 / -0

Unless you're rich or hold an advanced degree in a field that the country actively has a shortage of and you're being hired by a local company (who has to prove they couldn't find a resident to fill the position) you are not going to get a visa to work there, let alone citizenship.

Contrary to what the cock guzzling lefties in the US think, you can't just pick and choose a nation to live in like you're picking a favorite kool-aid flavor.

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doopdoop_MA 9 points ago +9 / -0

As an expat in Switzerland, I can confirm the lengthy process to prove you are vital to live here. Even if one spouse has a job to sponsor the residence permit, the other spouse has to get clearance, and provide proof of their education/degrees and can be held back to be formally 'reunified' later in the country. Then you have to renew the residency permit in another year.

You cannot even open a bank account without a proven source of income (aka a job)...and with out a bank account, since everything is digital here, there extra steps to pay your bills. Good luck paying your bills.

And health insurance is totally on your own, work only covers one part of the person who is employed and not the spouse. Our estimated annual out of pocket cost (before insurance kicks in) is CHF 17,000 just to be covered for two people.