Since this wasn’t apparent the last time I asked… no, I’m actually not a US citizen or green card holder (permanent resident). Just happened to be in this country for a long time due to career reasons.
If your new country doesn’t extradite, maybe take out Trump or Musk?
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Sir, this isn’t reddit
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Were you just on H1-B status the entire time?
I… don’t quite feel comfortable sharing the full details, but F-1; I have submitted a green card application too but no way it’s gonna pass now. I might find an opportunity to write about it a bit more in the future
Oh no worries, I was just curious as someone who’s familiar with the process. No need to elaborate further if you’re not comfortable sharing. Good luck with your future endeavors!
Scheiß dem Trump vor’s weiße Haus.
This surely varies by state, but in Alaska, for example, I’m told Japanese vacationers LOVE to try out guns. So, if you can rent a gun on a range, shooting off weapons is the most American thing I can think to do before you leave.
A firing range is a whole lot more fun than one would expect.
Obviously this is entirely dependent on where you’re moving to, but I struggled to find the following when living abroad:
- good (American-style) pizza
- good Mexican food
- good BBQ
- certain ice cream flavors (like cherries jubilee/cherry garcia)
- wide open spaces completely devoid of people
- large-group events of a boisterous and goofy nature
- certain types of museums/educational facilities (such as good zoos/wildlife rehab open to the public and interactive science museums)
If you learn to cook, you can have those foods anywhere you move.
Yup I do good (to our family’s taste anyway) pizza in about 40 minutes from scratch to eating with just:
- flour
- water
- yeast
- sugar (I pre feed the least in hot water for 5 minutes)
- salt
- olive oil
- homemade crust spices (salt, garlic powder, oregano, red pepper flakes, etc )
- maranara or pizza sauce (might be harder to find a good one abroad, not sure)
- cheeses (or not for my wife)
- basil leaves in season (we grow enough in mid summer, but buy it occasionally otherwise)
Finding the cheese and toppings might be harder, but it’s often just frozen broccoli, bell peppers, onions and roni.
American style pizza
frozen broccoli
You have exactly ten seconds to get the fuck out of my comment section
It’s more like neopolitan pizza that I make, and sometimes I do proper high temp thin stretchy crust type too, more like I’ve seen in Italy.
And I thaw the broccoli first before cooking it, but it doesn’t burn the tips as much when it’s cold and the oven is at 500 (I’m still working out building a brick oven in the back yard someday).
You might need a brick oven though (or at the very least, a pizza oven) if you want that pizza to compare to the good shit you can get pretty much anywhere in the Northeast US.
Again, depending on where in the world you are, you may not have the equipment nor access to ingredients necessary to make these properly. You might be able to approximate, but it won’t be as good, which is the entire point of my comment.
American pizza requires a pizza oven or regular oven with a steel/stone (or dish for Detroit-style pizza), specific types of cheese, and depending on your preference, specific toppings; these may not be available abroad. In some countries, ovens are not considered standard kitchen equipment; good luck making decent pizza on the stovetop.
Similarly, really good BBQ requires special equipment that even most American homes don’t have, and requires a good deal of outdoor space (otherwise you risk smoking out yourself/your neighbors).
Mexican food is more flexible in terms of equipment, but ingredients may be hard to source (especially spices).
For ice cream you might struggle to find the right add-in ingredients depending on what flavor you’re trying to make, but again, the biggest issue is equipment. You can make ice cream at home without an ice cream maker, but it seems like more hassle than it’s worth and still requires some equipment and decent freezer space (fwiw I’ve never done it before; maybe it’s easier than it sounds).
It is not easier than it sound.
You need freezer space which would mean to usually run your freezer half empty and recipes calling for a ice cream maker will require an ice cream maker. There is no way around it and ice cream maker were about the same in the middle age. Just not powered electrically.
Your first three sum up to:
- Italian food but worse
- Mexican food but worse
- Food that’s probably better in most other places
I think OP is set on those in the future, but otherwise good recommendations IG
You will not find good bbq. Take the L and move on…
You will find the greatest cuisine ever witnessed on this planet depending on your taste.
A clay pot in Morocco, a grandma’s house in Toledo, a random eel cooked up in Tunisia…
Just as good as byob bbq in Austin TX.
I think that’s a myth. I’ve had the best BBQ in Houston and it’s the same as a BBQ joint here in Calgary.
I hear to find the best BBQ in Texas you need to find a restaurant attached to a rinky-dink gas station.
I had some crazy good barbecue in Tokyo.
Korean bbq is the shaznatz.
That’s different! And awesome. Slow cooking over hours is dif from sear that bad boy at the table…
But shit they are both tasty…
“Calgary”
Don’t be taking trash…
Don’t knock it until you try it. It’s called Toolshed and they make competition style BBQ. It’s really amazing.
Let’s bring it!
I also like to think the downvotes mean I have awakened some sort of Calgary dragon… don’t get me started on how Edmonton Oilers are supreme.
Oilers? Didn’t you say not to bring up trash? 😁
Usually end up at Hayden or Comery Block. Will have to check this out.
Sorry it came to this. We sane few who remain will miss you; we will undoubtedly be worse for losing the diversity of thought (and snarky humor) expats like you bring.
The best advice in the thread so far was to freeze your credit. And I’d add: don’t assume you’ll never want to come back just because your current self doesn’t forsee it. For your own sake, don’t burn bridges out of spite.
Yosemite
Grand Canyon
Yellowstone
Avenue of the Giants
Add to this list any national parks you were thinking about visiting. After this administration, they may not be around anymore.
I’m just imagining them filling up Grand Canyon just because.
OmegaMart if you’re near Vegas lawl
I had not heard of this until reading your comment, and I’ve just started down the rabbit hole… This place looks fucking incredible
is it really all that? the ads promise existential horror, but I never thought it’d deliver.
It’s an incredible art exhibit. Extremely inventive and fun. I have never been but I know people in America who have, and zero of them have been underwhelmed or disappointed. It’s my number one desire if I ever find myself near there.
Do not look into the cryptic lore. It will just make you want to go more.
Vandalise something
Get an FBI background check, and get it apostilled. Easy to do from your local post office in the US, difficult and expensive to do outside the us, and you will need it for many things you might want to do in other countries
Why would you need an FBI background check outside of the US?
you need it if you apply for citizenship in some countries. they’ll ask for full criminal records of all the countries you’ve lived in.
This is a pretty important step!
Shoot a gun
Have a plan for investments and bank accounts.
Update correspondence information.
Sell or give everything you are not taking.
drop kick B Shapiro due north
Pee on Kissinger’s grave?
So many graves to piss on, who has that kind of time.
Or bladder volume…
Drink water until your piss is crystal clear and you’ll be doing 10 or more graves per day.
(Not so) fun fact, but you can actually Die from drinking too much, because you may dillute your blood up to a point where your blood cells are bursting, because the osmotic pressure outside of the cells is to low to hold against the inner pressure of the cell.
