Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 9 days agoThere are more people moving from America to Ireland than Irish moving to America.lockwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1439arrow-down13
arrow-up1436arrow-down1external-linkThere are more people moving from America to Ireland than Irish moving to America.lockwww.bbc.comQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 9 days agomessage-square78fedilink
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 days agoTwo ways you get to leave this country “easily”: unattached with little to lose. Go work abroad and establish residency. Cost of the plane ticket to get there. lots of money. Buy a golden visa. For the rest of us it’s a major undertaking with lots of sacrifice, upheaval, risk, and difficulty. (Yes, this is a simplification and there are exceptions, but for the most part this is true)
minus-squareAetherial@nord.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoYou forgot “marry a foreigner”. People get married all the time and emigrate to their spouses’ country of origin.
Two ways you get to leave this country “easily”:
unattached with little to lose. Go work abroad and establish residency. Cost of the plane ticket to get there.
lots of money. Buy a golden visa.
For the rest of us it’s a major undertaking with lots of sacrifice, upheaval, risk, and difficulty.
(Yes, this is a simplification and there are exceptions, but for the most part this is true)
You forgot “marry a foreigner”.
People get married all the time and emigrate to their spouses’ country of origin.