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“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?” - Ursula K. Le Guin

Have you considered moving?

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Sadly, I’m an English speaker so I’m very limited in my options.

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You mean the most widespread language on earth?

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But you always have the option to learn another language. It just takes some effort. It is easier to do than it ever has been before in history.

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Finding an employer to sponsor you in most countries is exceedingly difficult for most Americans. We can’t just move, unfortunately. There are strict immigration laws in most countries.

There were entire subreddits dedicated to this topic in the before-days. We need a Lemmy community for this complex topic.

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Find yourself a nice blue city and move into the suburbs. Lots of good jobs too.

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Come to New Zealand.

We still have Nazis but they spend all their energy on hating the Māori population.

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Thats ok, us Maori spend our whole time hating normal kiwis, who then hate nazis. They just need to slot in and direct theirs in the right direction (/s).

I mean, what are they really going to do - deport us back home? Actually don’t answer that, they may try it.

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You can go to literally any city in Earth and find many English speakers. Estimates are 1.5 - 2 billion people on earth are Anglophones.

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You can go to literally any city in Earth and find many English speakers.

I’ve traveled to numerous cities in Europe and East Asia and visited many places where little to no English was spoken.

You can usually find a handful of people in a major business center who specifically cater to foreign visitors, if you’re willing to spend extra for the privilege. But get outside the center of Paris or Berlin or Malmo or Shanghai or Tokyo, and its very easy to find yourself amid a sea of people who have no idea how to understand you much less respond.

Yes, there are call centers in Manila or Taipei where tens of thousands of people have to speak English for their jobs. Yes, the entire staff of the The Palm in Dubai is fluent. No, that’s not really helpful if you’re out in the suburbs of Brussels or living as a student in Seoul. If you need to call a plumber because the sink of your flat in Palermo sprung a leak, there’s a very good chance you’re going to be explaining the problem in Italian or in very elaborate hand gestures.

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