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[–] bpt11 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What's the reason for doing this? are you just trying to find a place that seems like a good fit for you or do you just do it for the love of finding new experiences? Where has been your favorite place you've lived so far and why?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Every country had a different reason.

I'm born in Silesia, which is now part of Poland, so I'm Polish and so are my parents. But all my grand parents are German.

  1. When I was 11 years old, just 2 month before the Berlin wall fell my family fled from communist Poland to west Germany and we could stay because our ancestors were German and so we got all the additional German passport.
  2. After living in Germany for 15 years I married a woman from Sweden and mover there with her and her daughter. We divorced but I stayed in Sweden for my stepdaughter sake. I went to university and build up my life there. After 10 years of living there I thought it's time to get a Swedish passport so I can vote in national elections. It took a couple of more years but I got the passport.
  3. I went to South Korea for a 3 month business trip and met a woman here, so after a year of business troops I asked my company to move me to the Korean office which they did. Now we are married and have a two year old son and I have another stepdaughter.

So yeah a bit different reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Very curious about life in Korea

I kind of wanna work there as a programmer from abroad, but how is it really?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

As a foreigner you get a lot of slack, especially if you don't speak Korean, because nobody wants to confront you in English.

But if you really work here as an equal the work culture is brutal. Actually it is - other than the language barrier which is totally on me - the single worst thing about Korea in my opinion. The other stuff you can work around and deal with and there are a lot of super cool things here which make it staying worthwhile. But coming here to work long term, probably not the best idea.

To be honest this country is not ready to deal with immigrants, both in society but especially in the work place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So, which country is next :-) ?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I always thought after Sweden would be Spain, but it became Korea, so I don't dare to predict :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ja alla svenskar vill åka till Spanien, varför? Inte vet jag, jag är i Frankrike, mitt land nr 2 :-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

För att det finns en massa sol där som vi inte ha i Sverige :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Men Franska riviäran 😎 (är själv på väst kusten).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

About the favorite place, I would say Sweden, but if I'm honest, if you have enough money for the necessities all of those countries are very close when it comes to the standard of living and so on.