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People, if you want to leave the USA there are better options than China
There's not a single mention of politics in the whole article 😐
His enthusiasm is a bit obnoxious if you ask me:
As far as the facts go, it's unclear if he gets a US salary or a chinese:
Groceries would probably be more expensive in Finland, but otherwise these numbers are very comparable, incl. urban rent.
And you get real democracy and freedom.
Finland is tricky to get into though, if you don't already have family or a similar connection. Haven't looked at China, any idea what would be involved with emigrating there? I'm curious how much they're paving the way for new talent to come in.
That statement just isn't true. Anybody can get into Finland. After 3 months it gets trickier; if you're not an EU citizen it's usually about getting work.
But I've been saying for years the EU should be granting political asylum to people from USA; at first half-jokingly, now maybe 10% jokingly.
Right, the conversation was about emigrating to other countries. My understanding is that the job market in Finland is particularly tight, especially if you're not already there.
What exactly do you mean?
Are you saying in other countries it's easy to get jobs even though you're not there?
What freedom isn't he getting?
Edit: yeah, downvote the genuine question instead of providing any opinions or answers.
Something something 1989.
Certain residents of the Hundred Acre Wood.
My question was what freedom the guy in the article is missing at present. It was a genuine question, not a bad faith/troll comment.
He apparently can't drive an electric scooter if he wanted to. You know, that one form of transportation that poor working people can actually afford. This is done so city governments can extract money from poor people since they can't get money from rich people.
Oh, and also like, democracy.
Other countries have functional public transport. Who the fuck needs an electric scooter?
You got downvoted because you didn't try to answer your own obvious question first before asking others to answer it for you.
very much like the US then ?
Look, it's a scale. Probably not 100% even in Finland. But we're definitely on opposite ends compared to USA and China.
Ehhhhhhhhhhh