At first I read 30 minutes at a time, and was gonna give you crap for not leapfrogging across the pond. It's not that big. The one next to me is bigger :P

I'm impressed she's sleeping. I can't sleep on airplanes no matter what I take.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

(the pic in OP is a train)

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Ahhh good! That means they've landed, and I understand their exhaustion. :)

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm impressed, I can't fly 30 meters over multiple times.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Do you not have a biological water jet? What happens if a shark comes swimming up to you?

Land dwellers are weird.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 points 10 hours ago

Look man, if I encounter a shark on land, I usually squat down and say 'pspspspspsps' until it starts rubbing it's head against me and I give it lots of pets.

It's foolish to outrun them. They find you.

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's been saying he'd do it.

Squid, proud of you. I did the same but that was 2 years ago

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you, but I also think they were joking.

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Many would be curious about the path to emigration you took. Have you shared about this anywhere?

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 12 points 18 hours ago

There's a lot of places in Europe that have an 'accident of birth' path to citizenship (jus sanguinis vs jus soli). Here's the ones I found:

If you're of Jewish ancestry and your family fled due to the Holocaust, there's a number of European countries that will return your citizenship. Unfortunately my mom's family is Russian Jews.
Ireland, if one of your grandparents was a citizen. This applies to my father, but not to me
Luxembourg (where I proceed to dox myself, lol) if you've got a direct line male lineage back to Luxembourg between 1850 and 1947 (or male until a female born after 1970-something, Google Luxembourg article 7 citizenship). This actually does apply to me and I know more about it, but I've barely started the process because uprooting my life to flee somewhere safer again is a truly miserable prospect, and the choice of agencies are either a non-profit that I can afford and maybe have some money left over to relocate but they're slower and they don't seem keen to deal with my document mismatch due to being trans and from Florida, or a much faster, more trans friendly and expensive business.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 5 points 15 hours ago

Some good info below. If you have no lineage to anywhere in Europe, there are other options depending on your job and education level (not all encompassing, for sure)

If you get hired for a skilled labor job almost always it'll result in a visa

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have, but I don’t mind sharing again. Basically, an accident of birth.

https://www.gov.uk/apply-citizenship-british-parent/born-before-1983

I wish I had better news for others.

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 16 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm in the same boat as you already have my citizenship and flying over in October to scope out a few cities and meet up with family and work out paperwork to transfer my job since I'm full time remote and so is my wife.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Good luck!

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago

Thanks you too I very much look forward to hearing about your adventures.