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What's the smallest amount of money you'd need to get to flee the country? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 4 months ago by ericbomb to c/asklemmy

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So imagine this:

you owe X amount of money, and fleeing the country makes it vanish

Or you accidentally are given X amount of money, and fleeing the country is only way to keep it

Inspired by: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/25/they-fled-the-country-to-escape-their-student-debt.html (Who left over 20k. Would not bounce.)

https://www.the-sun.com/news/5684480/worker-accidentally-paid-300-times-salary-vanishes/#:~:text=Instead%2C%20the%20lucky%20man%2C%20who,seen%20or%20heard%20from%20since. (I would bounce)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

How? I get to another country and then live there for basically the same amount of money I live on here. Do I have to count that too? Or the price for buying new furniture and opening a new bank account? It's very unclear from the post, what would you consider expenses that should be counted?

Edit: Okay, after reading the post again a few times – is the question how much money does the debt need to be to make you want to leave the country? I still find it very unclear.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter 2 points 4 months ago

how much money does the debt need to be to make you want to

This.

[–] trolololol 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hey mate that's ok, the question only makes sense when you line in a particular country.

[–] vxx 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No, but the expected solution only makes sense if you live in that particular country.

That said, your debt would follow you if you register in any other European country. Not registering and hiding from authorities could be done within any country, even the US.

So while the Europeans think it's easy to move countries, they forgot that the premise is that they have to hide from their debt.