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The bored at home / COVID19 / Working from home thread

bentin

Autocross Champion
Name one country you CAN just walk right into.
As an American? Nearly none right now because we've failed at Pandemic. But give me a Spanish passport and I can go just about anywhere with no ID check. When I worked in Germany, I once drove about an hour into France before realizing I wasn't supposed to be doing 250kph anymore.
 

GTI Jake

Autocross Champion
As an American? Nearly none right now because we've failed at Pandemic. But give me a Spanish passport and I can go just about anywhere with no ID check. When I worked in Germany, I once drove about an hour into France before realizing I wasn't supposed to be doing 250kph anymore.

A Spanish passport for what? Can US citizens have dual citizenship? If you can just go anywhere why would you need identification? Not being argumentative I genuinely have zero clue how it works over there because I’ve never been. My cousin David moved to Norway and loves it there, but I’m pretty sure he had to give up his US citizenship to do so.

I would love to visit Europe, although with two young kids I doubt I’ll be doing any international travel.
 

sterkrazzy

Autocross Champion
We could learn a lot from Norway IMO. They've got a good number of socialist and welfare systems while still relying on free market capitalism.

Their cops are also trained much better than ours. They have a pretty interesting jail system too.
 

Corprin

Autocross Champion
In all seriousness....

Your first argument stated to name a country that you can just walk into. It’s harder to come up with countries you can’t merely walk into. If not for covid, you can paddle your happy butt into Canada, just make sure you sign the log book. EU is complete freedom of travel. As above, the only way I knew I crossed from NL into BE my last trip over, was the condition of the pavement and the sign. As for illegal entry, the list of nations you can simply walk over the border is staggering.

Your changing the goalpost was adding the stipulation of working and living, then adding staking your claim In a foreign country.

The argument is weak, as you cannot simply drive to another state and set up shop. There are requirements for tax purposes, rent/lease/housing, etc no matter where you go. So positioning yourself on the grand scale of nation hopping being impossible is a red herring.

Staking your claim is difficult argument to make, as that denotes walking in and literally sticking a stick in the ground for the country to give you that plot if you work it. For the most part this is dead and gone in the developed world (excluding say adverse possession) But, you are able as a foreign citizen to move into a number of countries, like states, and work there as a foreign worker. While in Japan I was earning foreign income as a US citizen residing in Japan. I had the ability to purchase real estate, and besides the flight in, I simply walked in and started to do it.
 

GTI Jake

Autocross Champion
We could learn a lot from Norway IMO. They've got a good number of socialist and welfare systems while still relying on free market capitalism.

Their cops are also trained much better than ours. They have a pretty interesting jail system too.

I have only talked to him on FaceTime and seen videos and pictures, but it’s absolutely beautiful there.

From the little knowledge I have of the place it seem like they run a very tight ship. College is paid for as long as you keep your grades up and finish. Fail to do either and you owe at all back. (From what I’m told by my aunt, don’t shoot the messenger if that’s incorrect).
 

GTI Jake

Autocross Champion
In all seriousness....

Your first argument stated to name a country that you can just walk into. It’s harder to come up with countries you can’t merely walk into. If not for covid, you can paddle your happy butt into Canada, just make sure you sign the log book. EU is complete freedom of travel. As above, the only way I knew I crossed from NL into BE my last trip over, was the condition of the pavement and the sign. As for illegal entry, the list of nations you can simply walk over the border is staggering.

Your changing the goalpost was adding the stipulation of working and living, then adding staking your claim In a foreign country.

The argument is weak, as you cannot simply drive to another state and set up shop. There are requirements for tax purposes, rent/lease/housing, etc no matter where you go. So positioning yourself on the grand scale of nation hopping being impossible is a red herring.

Staking your claim is difficult argument to make, as that denotes walking in and literally sticking a stick in the ground for the country to give you that plot if you work it. For the most part this is dead and gone in the developed world (excluding say adverse possession) But, you are able as a foreign citizen to move into a number of countries, like states, and work there as a foreign worker. While in Japan I was earning foreign income as a US citizen residing in Japan. I had the ability to purchase real estate, and besides the flight in, I simply walked in and started to do it.

I appreciate the explanation, and didn’t intend to move the goalposts.

It’s nice to take someone away from this thread based on real experiences rather than just being lashed out at.
 

bentin

Autocross Champion
I have only talked to him on FaceTime and seen videos and pictures, but it’s absolutely beautiful there.

From the little knowledge I have of the place it seem like they run a very tight ship. College is paid for as long as you keep your grades up and finish. Fail to do either and you owe at all back. (From what I’m told by my aunt, don’t shoot the messenger if that’s incorrect).
It's a pretty place, spent a few weeks in and around Oslo.

As for traveling through the EU, there are no border check points. You freely drive, fly or train your way between countries and get on at one end and off at the other, with no passport checks. It's harder to drive from California to Nevada, better not try to smuggle a plant into California, or a banana.

Travel is fun, it's a shame that we're in this mess and locked out of travel at the moment. Hopefully people will start to take it seriously and we can get back to normal before too long.

Oh, and yes, most EU countries allow dual citizenship with the US, Spain is one, the UK and Germany as well, not as sure about the others.
 

jimlloyd40

Autocross Champion
All decent Americans know it's you. You brought this on the country. You personally deserve what's coming. You can't gaslight your way out of this.

So what's coming? My God all I said was to wear a mask.
 

jimlloyd40

Autocross Champion
Been working from home since March. My company said we will most likely not go back this year. How's everyone adjusting? Feels weird to be home ALL THE TIME. I go to coffee shops from time to time, which seems to help. Now i'm stuck in a place where i feel it's going to be REALLY hard to go back to the campus and be wired M-F 8-5, now that they've given us a taste of full remote work.


Meh. Interesting times in in 2020. It will undoubtedly change the world as we know it.

Good post. That's what this thread is supposed to be about.
 

sterkrazzy

Autocross Champion
How about a little wind and rain to go with your covid?

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GTIfan99

Autocross Champion
Is building the wall still a thing? had me scared for a minute, Being hispanic and all. I Even thought they would build it around Colorado and give Mexico New Mexico back.

They're making yufe progress. 25 billion to Trump's buddies and they have build less than 100 miles. Nevermind that 60% fly here and just stay, like Melania. Seriously, anyone actually think she deserved a genius exemption? Lol

I swear, I'm embarrassed for his supporters, but people fall for the Nigerian prince scam still, so nothing surprising. Probably a large overlap in the 2 groups.
 

sterkrazzy

Autocross Champion
Cat 4 or meh, no one here cares.

You're not wrong. We ran from Irma and that was the only hurricane in the 32 years we've been down here that we ran. Then when we got back it was like shit...we could have stayed.

Most of the spaghetti models show the orange one going to Mexico/Guatemala too. Texas might get both of them.
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