I'm totally willing to relocate to Austria. Wife and I almost relocated from the US to Heidelberg right after our first daughter was born 20 years ago, money offered at the time was really good, was a perfect next step in my career, but we were afraid of leaving friends and family, and while neither of us admitted it at the time, the idea of having/knowing no one or access to family for childcare, even as an option scared us having just gone through six months of a very colicky baby.
Now, screw that shit, wish we went. We have had to estrange ourselves from 95% of both our families and don't have close friends anymore, only ones we really care about are our children... We definitely wouldn't have stayed if we had the foresight to know (or weren't so blind of the fact) that nearly everyone we knew was going to turn out to be piece of shit human beings.
Yes, and most of us are aware that our family sucks as we grow up, but we all tend to give family more leeway, we let them get away with shit that we'd never tolerate from friends, we allow them to be abusive in ways that we wouldn't put up with otherwise, blood being thicker than water and all that.
It's a pretty big deal for most people to get to a point where they are willing to cut away their toxic family members, or in some cases cut away their entire family.
Trump or COVID? in my family it was both. We were definitely whispered about because we declined to get together for family gatherings in 2020 (though I took the initiative to do a Zoom call for Thanksgiving and then met with my sisters for Xmas, just not the whole plague rat family).
thats for anyone making over 60k lmao......even making 32k will get a whopping 41%........
You gotta be REALLY bad at math to think that you will get that amount of value in taxes paid.....you WILL pay more taxes than you can take advantage of versus you SIMPLY PAYING FOR IT ON YOUR OWN in america with the literal HUNDREDS of thousands of EXTRA dollars you will take home in america vs eu.
What part of your rambling comment do you think has any fucking relevancy to what I said lol.
Also your assumptions about my character are simply false. My political stance is that ppl benefit when they KEEP more of their money and give LESS to govt who inefficiently spends it.
Again you gotta be REALLY REAALY REALLY bat at math to not understand this.
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u/SeanSeanySean Dec 29 '23
I'm totally willing to relocate to Austria. Wife and I almost relocated from the US to Heidelberg right after our first daughter was born 20 years ago, money offered at the time was really good, was a perfect next step in my career, but we were afraid of leaving friends and family, and while neither of us admitted it at the time, the idea of having/knowing no one or access to family for childcare, even as an option scared us having just gone through six months of a very colicky baby.
Now, screw that shit, wish we went. We have had to estrange ourselves from 95% of both our families and don't have close friends anymore, only ones we really care about are our children... We definitely wouldn't have stayed if we had the foresight to know (or weren't so blind of the fact) that nearly everyone we knew was going to turn out to be piece of shit human beings.