hey okay i wanna hear from fedi people who moved to another country (especially when they were forced to do so due to various circumstances); 1st generation immigrants, refugees and so on, everyone else stay out of it
is it bad that i wouldn't want to come back to my home country even if the situation would vastly improve in terms of civic rights?
like, sure poland isn't war-torn by any chance or under a full on dictatorship like some countries; but i don't want to go back there permanently. for a visit or such, sure okay, but i'd rather settle here in NL and live here even if i don't speak the language.
there are very very few circumstances where i would consider coming back (and those are pretty unrealistic come on) - i simply have plenty of trauma when it comes to life in poland (most related to my DV situation but still)
idk, most of the time i see the trope of people using immigration as a temporary solution and then coming back to their homeland after years (war ended, they earned enough money and so on) and i feel like an outlier for wanting to stay
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@kaaskop Personally, I would consider returning to Poland only if some particular aspects change for the better. However, considering the current political climate I doubt I'll be living long enough to see it.
So far I'm preparing for acquiring Dutch citizenship.
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@agturcz yeah, i don't know what sort of a fucking miracle would need to happen in poland for me to consider going back, especially when i don't have any sort of proper support network over there… unlike in NL where i have an entire group that i can rely on in case shit goes wrong
maaaaybe if they'd improve working conditions, queer rights and the housing situation but we all know you might as well go gamble and hope to hit a jackpot
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@kaaskop I am a little bit envy for having a support group here. Covid and burnout have messed up things for me. I need to catch up 😅
I've left Poland because of the working conditions, and I'm not getting back because of lack of queer rights.
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@agturcz they say by the age 20 you should have at least one online friend from another side of the world that you've never met but whom you trust with all your life
and to be fair, was it not for them we wouldn't be talking right now. i wouldnt make it to 2025
sure, life isn't as good as i'd want it to be (i still need to find a job…) but it's improved by tenfold
actually, we should meet one day methinks, depending which part of NL you're in (if you want to ofc)
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@kaaskop I'm not saying "no" for a meeting, but please check my pinned introduction post first. However I would suggest to postpone it till the weather becomes more friendly for riding a motorbike 😊
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@kaaskop
In 2015, I felt very out-of-sync with Americans despite being one. I decided to take a job in South Africa. Last year, I moved to the Netherlands, again for a job. I do not expect to move back to the USA in the future. I feel less in-sync with it now than I did when I left.
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@kaaskop@app.wafrn.net not bad at all, no - before moving I frqeuently wanted to move out before it starts a war or something, but waited for a good moment which never happened: I'll move when I finish my uni and get passport. Ok, I have passport now, waiting for uni. Ok nvm, dropped out of uni. Let's take some rest first. Oh fuck, a pandemic. It's not safe, let's wait until it ends. Oh fucking hell, they started a war already - no choice anymore.
If the situation in that country improves - idk, i don't have a lot of hope it does, but then again fascists are old and will die at some point - prob still no, then again I don't know which parts of the world will even be safe in a few years and if that place will have newly gotten rid of its fascism - maybe? But who tf knows, I don't like where basically the entire world is going with this
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@kaaskop I don't think i want to go back to Portugal.
A lot of things improved in 24 years since I left but I still don't like how it works. It is not like it is being bombed and gay ppl kicked in the streets, but there is a social tissue which is invisible and motivated by codes, Etikette and Religion which I don't want to deal with or I just can't nor want to understand.
I left because of that, and precarity.
Then I realised that there is kindness, amazingness and bigotry and bullshit everywhere (I live in Berlin, get threatened and kicked out of places regularly because I look south European, some people have a problem) but the bullshit of ppl I understand every cultural aspect of, is unbearable, too much input.i prefer the bullshit of strangers, in the cultural reference sense.
Housing, aplication of civil rights (the laws are good, but nobody gives a shit), job, inclusion culture, would have to improve drastically. And provably a different city, a lot of trauma memories.
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@kaaskop
Having said that, it scares me to grow old and vulnerable in a country which others me for coming from where I come from, so the jury is out on that one.
Would have to find a country that others me for other reason with different, milder consequences.
But this is another topic.
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