Moving to Europe. (was Re: American Empire as Gated Community)

[sine@zerocrossing.net]

My wife and I have thought long and hard about this, and we really want to
move out of the U.S.  Frankly, we feel the system is too broken to ever be
fixed and that democracy is long dead.  However, unless you've got a 
company
that's eager to hire you in a new country, it seems very difficult to move
these days.  Any tips?  Anyone want to sponsor to very skilled, hard 
working
computer graphics/animation/music people?  Can we seek political asylum?  I
hear the U.N. saying, "No war unless proof Saddam is hiding weapons." and 
then
I see that we're dropping leaflets telling them to tune into American US
forces radio.  Makes me physically ill.

I never thought I'd say this but I'd move out of here in a heartbeat.

Mark Sottilaro

Catilyne wrote:

> At 01:55 PM 1/3/2003 +0100, Michael Peters wrote:
>
> >American Empire as Gated Community
> >by BRIAN ENO
> >
> >         [*snip*]
> >
> >....The result is: Europe has less crime and less
> >poverty and arguably higher quality of life than the U.S., which makes
> >a lot of us wonder why America doesn't want some of what we've got.
>
> Well, judging from many of the other mailing lists I'm on, there are a
> whole lotsa people out there who are actively making/have made plans to 
>get
> some of what they've got -- or, in other words, expatriate their families
> out of the US.  Although, to be fair, Europe and Canada seem to be 
>running
> about neck & neck in the race for favorite expat destination.
>
> For my part, in only two weeks we'll be taking the family on its first
> "exploratory tour" to see which of the destinations that look good on 
>paper
> will actually make a decent home in real life.  We're shooting for the EU
> in early 2004...
>
>          -c-
>
> _____
> "i want to reach my hand into the dark and *feel* what reaches back"
>                                                  -recoil