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Tbh I feel like going to the US while the Nazis are in power is suicidal. So of course I don't understand your choice of going instead of your SO coming to Europe. But while I don't understand, I wish and pray for you to be safe. Whatever you choose, I hope you guys will be okay
You might be right. I have no idea what the future has in store or if I'll come to regret it. But I've already stated my reasons. As it stands, with the year-long process we've already started and that we can't just flip on a dime overnight, my partner can't come and stay in Europe legally just like that. Legal immigration is not that easy in one way or the other. Also... Yeah, I've stated that before, but one shouldn't underestimate how shitty things have been getting in Europe for the past few years as well, and how the influence of the US (which is huge) is likely to make things worse. So again I'm not 100% sure whether that'd have been better anyway.
Also also... Ima be real, I've shared that before, but the time where I was separated from my partner due to the travel ban was the only time in my life where I had actual suicidal ideation. I don't want this to happen again. That's why I'm making moves so it doesn't, first and foremost.
#tw sui ideation#tw sui talk#again i can't just pick and choose it's actually a really tough process and not just something i can go willy nilly about#it's a bit of a headache having people telling me otherwise#i'll do what i can and we'll keep doing our best to stay safe but it's not like i can just switch roads overnight#i wish i could but it's never as simple#or maybe it is for people who are already us citizens i have no idea#but i'm not quite sure#either way tbh i'm not sure moving to europe as so many people are throwing in online rn is that great a solution either#europe is the us's playground and geopolitically its bitch#some things definitely are better than in the us but in a world where money rules everything i don't feel it's quite as fool proof#as everyone makes it sound#as someone who was born and raised there respectfully#who's felt that influence for life#and btw as someone who also grew up not speaking english and who had to painstakingly learn#don't think you can just move to a random country you can't speak the language of and that everyone will be as nice about it#as if you were a tourist#language is important#my partner doesn't speak my country's language#so yep there's that#i've already said that several times anyway it's getting tiresome#we COULD have tried for the UK in a timeline where those dumbasses didn't choose to leave the EU#but that ship sailed almost 10 years ago#i wonder if anyone realizes that#sorry for saying that after such a wall of text but thank you for the concern though sincerely
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Activity update. This is a bit of a messy notice, but it's still worth noting. Let's sum it up with— my most recent housing situation that I thought would give me relative peace for roughly a year, has been a mess in recent weeks, and has come to a conclusion that involved an illegal eviction, and now a pending complaint from my end to the police. Now, this has me yet again temporarily bunking with family, which means that my activity can be anywhere from very active in the evenings, to very sparse for days on end.
Another thing that adds to this, is that I am also in the process of doing a bit of a career swap due to rational necessity, which has already had me quite busy in terms of applications. And depending on how things go— as wild as this may sound (and yet if you've known me for years, you know this isn't truly as insane as it sounds), one of my options may include a fully paid for relocation to Greece with quite a bit of on-site security through a known international recruiting company, but it all depends on how talks and subsequent interviews go. But, as I slowly do preemptive research, it's something I'm growing very fond and curious about, since France has done nothing but stab me in the back and front since I got here. But either way, if you could, cross those fingers and toes for me.
But having said all of this, I can't promise proper nor consistent activity, but I will try to be around at times because I will need to unwind, which is why I'll be on Discord (and even there, might be slow). I ask, once more, for patience, and I apologize that this seems to be a recurring request— but I'm determined to put an end to it being one. And if that means moving one more time abroad, potentially, then I'll happily do it. After all, neither traveling or moving abroad has ever frightened me.
#[ out of character. ] don't bend or water it down. don't try to make it logical. rather: follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.#[ i'm one of those people who naturally doubts most things in life-- because i get how people work nowadays. ]#[ but when things check out; then why not latch onto a potentially very interesting opportunity? ]#[ this is what i love about europe though-- it's the fact countries do try to get people to immigrate left/right. ]#[ and they offer professional motivations. ]#[ i dunno if anyone in europe has ever had run-ins with jobsquad before but if so; feel free to share. ]#[ when i've been repeatedly approached for multiple abroad opportunities after signing up for them. ]#[ and this one has perfect timing with a relocation package that's even more interesting-- then you know. why not? ]#[ people are always so frightened of moving but; when you've done it before-- it really takes the scare out of you. ]#[ and this one actually would be a guided one. so-- any way. i'm rambling. hi hello. ]#[ public service announcement. ] so you're suggesting i'm graceful? / no. i am declaring it. it was not a subject for debate.
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the number of Americans who think they can just move to somewhere else - my social media feeds everywhere (except tumblr, but I’ve seen it here too) is flooded with Americans asking whether they qualify as citizens bc their great great grandpa was from [insert European country] or which area in Scotland has best weather or which southern European country has cheapest rent or how to get a marriage visa to a Nordic country
my dudes. you can’t. there’s no “I���ll just move elsewhere” about this. Europe generally speaking is hostile to immigrants even from within Europe. unfortunately for you, you will have to stay and keep voting and keep working to make your country a better place. I’m sorry it’s hard. it is what it is.
#I say this AS a European#who has moved around a fair bit within Europe#the UK is not the great safe haven you think it is#do you even realise how hostile the UK is to immigrants?#no you can’t get a visa to the UK if you’re a broke disabled queer person with only an American citizenship.#the UK wants rich people only#no you can’t marry a random Danish person and get a residency permit#you have to prove a real connection. and not in the arranged marriage fanfic way. in the way where you have to provide tangible proof#in the form of text messages and emails and letters and cohabitation and time spent together#a paper trail of a relationship#you think the United States alone are hostile to immigration? my friend. Europe is worse.#do you want to know how many American-European couples I know who couldn’t get visas for their spouses in Europe and went to USA instead?#ALL OF THEM
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i'm tired, y'all
#please ignore my bluesky display name for this serious personal text post#the absolute last resort plan is 'get married then beg my parents to sell the new york apt so i can buy property overseas & move us there'#(NOT fucking europe. or anywhere anglophone except maybe ireland but tbh we won't be able to afford living there)#(thinking vaguely about argentina or thailand but obviously we need to do a lot more research)#but he's probably going to end up in colorado or minnesota or chicago
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In retrospect, I'm really sleeping on the morbid hilarity of Draxum's people leaving the Faroes for New York. Considering they left due to humans fucking up their shit and trying to drive them off their land, and considering the time and place these humans were likely a mixture of Norse settlers and people from the British Isles. So they travel across the fucking ocean to settle in a new land where the local humans are more accepting, more willing to work with them, and maybe they aren't all best friends but they leave each other alone and are willing to work/trade with each other if necessity demands it. For a few centuries, everything was relatively chill.
And then who fucking shows up?
#okay i know the british who settled in the faroes would have been gaels and picts who were not the british who colonized the americas#BUT the normans were descended from vikings and were doing viking bullshit#and by that point the normans were pretty wholly integrated into the anglo-saxons so there was a lot of norman influence in british culture#so i don't think the yokai would really make the distinction#“ugh those viking wannabes followed us across the goddamn ocean”#honestly this goes for most of the yokai from western europe#the spanish and the french both showed up in new york and the dutch colonized it initially#you move across the ocean to get away from europeans and who shoes up? europeans#look i'm norwegian i'm allowed to make fun of the norse#i don't have a reason why western europeans were more murdery towards the yokai probably for the same reasons they did colonization#rapid industrialization and newfound ability to kill and expand that people really didn't have access to before
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i like it when dogs are a little blonde like this who did your highlights little man
#lucky#dogblr#handsomedogs#residents#dogs#ok now. we are snowed in today!#i got a new job doing laboratory and pharmacy work instead of clinic#so i can recover from my major depressive episode lol#anyway doing ok so far! im learning to be a human again:)#lucky leia and i are saying hi :)#still dating my wonderful girlfriend#we are planning to move together to europe when shes done with her things and im done with mine :)soon
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damn i missed you guys this has to be the first time in weeks that i've posted more than like 5 things in a day. i can't waaait for actual bayern tomorrow
#the next 4-5 months will be a delicate balancing act#and i will probably be very sporadically present#but it's important to me that you all know that your friendships mean a lot to me and i feel unmoored from parts of myself#when i can't be present/talk to you all#like obviously number 1 my individual friendships matter a lot to me#and number 2 i do feel that being on here has allowed me to be in touch with the european side of myself#without actually having to move to europe#which i always used to think i would have to do if i ever wanted to connect with that#anyway on that note i am using 'how easy would it be for me to temporarily move to germany' as a criterion for picking internships lol#so expect to see me there in 3-4 years#bella things
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this is so entirely random but one thing i thing i wonder abt every once in a while is if there are any indigenous american emigrants like ones that have left the americas entirely. like indigenous americans in the uk or whatever. i dont even know of any hispanic mestizo british people…. i mean statistically im sure there has to be at least some of them right. however small the number. but ive like never seen or heard from them if they do exist… so i always wonder what that must be like. like how comparible is that to cultural diaspora in america. how much of your cultural identity do you keep with a community that small? and like the way that the majority of countries have at least some amount of black & east+south+west asian immigrants for the people to have exposure to even if not everywhere is as culturally diverse as america. but if youre british have you met all of those but just never met an indigenous american. or like any latin american. thats crazy to me
#i do know there are latinos in east asia japan esp but i feel like ive never seen them in europe#well besides like rich latina american influencer girls that move to italy and only speak english. thats not what i mean#i mean like actual communities and families earnestly emigrating and establishing themselves or whatever..#like i know theres some indigenous groups from other continents in the us. mostly from northern africa se asia and the pacific islands#but i guess in fairness i cant say i know of any aboriginal australians in america…#idk this mostly means nothing i have no point its just a shower thought i have sometimes#also i know theres a lot of black carribean immigrants in the uk but those are mostly from former british colonies right?
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bro there is smth abt the food in north america that fucks w my guts SO bad like there is literal nuclear warfare happening in my large intestine rn. like i be in the trenches rn chokin on my own damn gas
#sorry for oversharing but i have been having the RANKEST farts for the past week#just goddamn deadly#before i moved to europe i was convinced i had ibs. and then after i moved there all my symptoms disappeared and i was like. huh#so idk wtf they’re puttin in the food in canada but dear god my guts do not like it#dick punches
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Dick and Tim playing Ticket to Ride… in my Mind Palace… my special inner world…
#Ticket to Ride Europe…#in my head…#tiny trains…#bonemeal says silly stuff#they would be SO competitive#they would be SO cutthroat and aggressive in their play styles#they would deduce where the other is going and play routes and stations on their own routes just so they can’t reach#I think they would love TTR#Tim always plays green and Dick plays blue#or maybe Tim plays red?#cause then Babs can play green#I have genuinely imagined several games of TTR with various character combos to see how their play styles change#hrrgnnn I need to play TTR RIGHT NOW#I have to wait for like 4 hours rn do you know how many games of TTR I can play in that time#time WASTED#dc#tim drake#dick grayson#I think when one of them makes a particularly evil move there’s a 40% chance to game turns into wrestling#until they knock over all the routes#oh TTR my best friend…#guys I kind of like TTR did you know
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i think what's really been getting to me the past few months is the realisation that i dont relate to literally any of the mental health stuff i see anywhere. like whenever there's some affirmation or motivation or just relatable-sounding posts in general they all seem like such common problems and it's like, damn i literally dont experience any of that. and yet im still crumpling. something uniquely wrong with me
#like ion have social anxiety and my depression manifests entirely differently. already excludes like 90% of things on here#also like. my parents grew up so poor immediately post ww2 and in the ussr that they#were eating dead animals off the street. my father was in a revolution when he was 10 and grew up working in a mine#and ion even wanna think abt the shit my mother endured in transylvania#and they both went to uni for over a decade and made an extremely good life for themselves#and i cant even do 2 yrs of uni without folding?? i dont even have anything else going on#i literally have everything handed to me why can't i just function#maybe i never learned how to struggle for things. i dont know#barking#and i cant say oh well im more mentally ill than them. first of all where do you think i got them from. second of#all they were in a war and spent the majority of their lives in the ussr. they wont even#talk about most of the things they went through#like dont get me wrong i have such a long list of mental issues my biography would count as the next dsm#but it's not like my parents were okay at any point. so like#for the record they stopped living in the ussr because the ussr ended they didn't move out or anything. we're still in eastern europe#which is definitely contributing to my overall state. please can i fucking leave pleeeease
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#today as both been a very good and a very worrying day#I got the $10k grant I asked for from one of the prominent research forums for work in Europe and the Middle East this coming fall/winter#(plus with what they’re giving I can finally buy a brand new MacBook - mine is 7 years old. has traveled and been through so much. 1 BA 1 MA#first 3 years of a PhD. 1 new battery. and I live in fear of it dying any day. so that gives me so much relief and security)#but the north african studies associations I applied to for manuscript tutoring and archive funding all paused grants this year#so i have to rely exclusively on the Jewish studies foundation associated with my uni to give me everything for that#otherwise I can’t do it and I’ll have to move my whole June-December schedule around#and it will majorly fuck up how the initial steps of my dissertation research and drafting are mapped out#not great. especially when they don’t give decisions until mid May#there’s nothing to do but grin bear it and pray though#at least one of the two major things has gone right and I’ll have reliable hardware#plus something new and fancy to put on my CV#me stuff#not the stones
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i hate depending on my family financially lol. they’ve changed their minds and decided they actually want me to stay here (fair enough eu is way more expensive but like. i’m sick of being in this isolated city. and everything taking forever to get to.
#cannot even rationalize to myself why i wanna live in europe so badly but i do!#even though every step of it would be so much harder .#then again. like five people know me moving to europe is a possibility#like realistically speaking moving to europe tanks my employability .#but it’s. i don’t know. it just means things could be different#my posts
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mutuals to move in with
#🗿#this is mainly to reference to my moving out and really wishing i could be roomies with kay#do you know how happy that would make me?!#but nooooo we have to live a thousand miles apart#the uk may be small but europe is bigger#we literally live at opposite ends of the map#i checked#i was looking at the rain map on the weather app and i ended up getting lost in seeing where on the map we both were from each other#it’s far#it even kinda looks far on a map bc there’s all the other countries in between#having a roomie would be very logical for me just anyways#but i’d also LOVE to live with kay!!!#it’d be so fun#maybe by the time i actually move out we will have become williamaires and we can actually live together#🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🩷🩷🩷#<cross my heart cross my fingers as patrick stump once said#gwen rambles#gwenposting
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Ok looked at all the vampire f/f books listed on sappfic.com or whatever and. Thats not a lot comparatively and also I had an idea! Who wants to read the one scene i already wrote for it
#please cant we... cant we just have .... my idea written by someone else and better than i could do it by one million times#i want. to go to bed i guess#sigh.#wont anybody please make vampires actual ceo assholes hello.#that dhampir academy thing came closest first book was pretty homoerotic#read that decades ago (not quite)#my stuff#blagh ignore me i am so so so tired#and i didnt do anything for most of the day i hate this#its actually a series book one is about a zombie apocalypse in europe due to a new bioweapon and a student is on her way home from uni her#train gets bombed she attempts to go home but the zombies get her she is a zombie for a while but wakes up one day#still hungry...but lucid. her senses sharpened and herself more capable of anything. she hears a little girl trapped in a basement and gets#her out. and while travelling back to her hometown keeps her safe. then almost gets killed eating dead people for sustenance gorges on blood#but yhe girl sees her. then she comes across a guy she helps they protect each other and the kid. she keeps moving and moving just hoping#her family might be ok. the guy and her fall in love. theres no news no information why hasnt anyone come to help them how far has it spread#anyway they have sex she infects him he dies. shes mad with grief her family are dead (they arrive). the u.s. army comes in and#and seemingly offer aid but they find out shes undead / immortal they put her through experiments for 20 years (patient zero tests) the girl#is called elise and grows up in the u.s. shes the first sired vampire (she was introduced to the mutated virus at a young enough age and#gradually) and manages to disappear before she follows the fate of her lost adoptive big sister. then the first immortality treatments#come out. but only the richest families can afford them and its somehow carried in the living body. strange rituals. blood becomes something#you can sell at an ok. price. you can become immortal but only through more obvious indentured servitude. TAKES DEEP BREATH#ENTER jess and haley two normal u.s. teenagers no good families in a crumbling education system whose teacher is managing to hold on to#life by his teeth by paying his students for blood because blood banks are now all in hands of oligarchal immortal families and hes been#banned#getting infected generally means death only those families have the medical resources to make it go right#DEEP BREATH.#anyway#personal#and more - jess and haley become blood workers - sell blood for money. very dangerous catering to either criminals or elites or desperates#jess does get infected haley nealy kills herself getting the money to pump her full of drugs so she might survive. jess nearly kills haley a
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Not to be dramatic but I think that video killed me.
#diabolical that I watched that at work between two very important and stressful meetings#moving to Europe so my timezone is better and also to get away from… yk all that.#👉🏻👈🏻 anyone wanna marry me#I can’t cook but I will cry about dnp with you#okay actually for real need to do more work now rip
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