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Putting american flags everywhere. What do you want to tell me with that? That you like the country? Obviously you do or else you wouldn't live there
Don't make such assumptions.
Yeah, when you live in the US, moving anywhere else isn't as easy as packing up your things to go to a new country. We don't have the benefit of an EU or Schengen Zone.
Very much not true. Moving to another country full time is not particularly easy for a lot of people.
Oh actually no most of us can’t reasonably leave. We don’t have a shengen type deal or financial security so leaving is actually quite difficult for most of us.
I asked an American who was getting citizenship in my country if they were going to relinquish their american citizenship and was told that was pretty much unthinkable for an american.
Yeah I can’t imagine why I would. Like the country has its huge issues but holy fuck is our passport an amazing thing to have. It’s a thing of nobody but us will fuck with us.
There's no benefit to losing American citizenship. Why would you want to renounce it?
Not having to pay tax in the US when you don't live or work there.
What kind of taxes would you owe if you don't live or work there?
The United States is one of only two countries that taxes based on citizenship, not place of residency. That means it doesn’t matter where you hang your hat — if you’re legally a U.S. citizen, you have a tax obligation to the U.S.
American passport is one of the few that still demand taxes even if you never been to the US for ages, look it up.
Taxes, Boris Johnson gave up his citizenship as he didn't want to pay tax on a country he didn't actively reside in. I always thought that was kind of ironic given half the reasons for independence were due to paying tax to a foreign power.
It takes swathes of resources to get out of this hellhole. You wanna provide about $50k and a guaranteed job / housing / transport out for me? Then I can leave.
They do this in Europe too though (not with the US flags, obviously).
Norway is particularly famous for flying the flag everywhere.
Fair, I have also seen plenty of flags in Denmark.
As a German it weirds me out. We don't do that kind of nationalism any more.
Switzerland also. People have proper flagpoles in their garden, it's quite stange.
I see a good bit of flag waving in the Netherlands as well. In France though I'd be weirded out if I saw one besides on official buildings and stuff.
Yes, if you see a private home in France with the French flag, you'd pretty much assume the people living there are far right extremists. Normal people use the Brittany flag instead.
I was ~~very pleased~~ aghast that they had porn on TV in Europe after a certain hour when visiting in my teenage years.
they had softcore porn at the airport in Moscow when I visited in the mid-90s! i was a young teenager being mesmerized by tits.
I've been to european countries where they do this too.