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What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices?
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this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2024
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Move to another country?
I’m trying to figure out the same question.
Moving rocks. You should do that. I did that.
I want to move to one of the EU countries maybe even Australia, New Zealand, or Canada. But I have no skills to offer these countries. Can I still move?
Canada would be tough immigration-wise without special skills and it's not very cheap, you could do farm work in new Zealand or Australia and minimum wage would cover you far better than it does in the states, and you don't need benefits because health care is affordable there.
In terms of Europe, Portugal is very reasonable, although I don't know what kind of unskilled work is available and you'd have to learn the language, which is simple but limited to only a few countries around the world.
Australia is probably the easiest of your desired locations: low population relative to land mass, high wages, universal healthcare and education, open unskilled labor market, tons of seasonal work on farms for high pay, no language skills required. Crazy beautiful and clean. No shootings. Rent isn't as cheap as a place like Portugal in the larger cities, but it's there if you look, and you can always live in smaller cities or towns.
There will always be something you have to figure out, but overall everything is just so much cheaper and less stressful abroad that it's worth it to figure out the details.
Australia isn't that much better. Yeah, you're much less likely to get shot unless it's by the cops, but housing and grocery prices are insane. Public health is kind of okay at the moment, but it's slowly and surely being gutted along with most other public services. It's honestly worse than it was even 2-3 years ago. Disability and unemployment are a labyrinthine nightmare of maliciously incompetent bureaucracy. Workers rights don't suck in some places, but if you're coming in on a visa, you may be required to do work in regional areas, and the employers out there 100% know this and will take advantage of it. Some industries have very strong unions (construction). My state has sick pay guarantees for casual workers and jail time is a possibility for wage theft. I think it's the only one where that's true tho. Otoh we just voted nationally to continue systemic racism, we have nazis sieg heiling in the streets, our prime minister is a non-event and the opposition leader is an angry potato.