So another thread ( https://lemmy.world/post/17746018 ) got me wondering… How many people would want to move to another country?

Just to provide a concrete scenario, let’s assume that in your current country you (magically) have a decent-ish job. They open up offices in another country of your choosing, and you have the option of moving there and work for an equivalent living wage.

They’re able to get visas set up (however improbable that may be) for you and any family, but you have to go through the process of finding housing, physically moving your belongings and anything else you need to set up.

What countries would you take the offer to move to, if any?

  • BluesF@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 months ago

    Wanna swap? I’ll come enjoy the snow, you can come to the UK and enjoy the, uh, rain.

    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
      91·
      5 months ago

      It’s not the winter wonderland many foreigners think it is, unless you go to Lapland. Most of the winter is just wet, cold, dark, slippery, and absolutely miserable. It’s dark when you leave for work and it’s dark when you get back home.

        • southernbrewer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Yeah sounds awesome to me too tbh. My mood brightens whenever I see snow and I don’t find that low sunlight levels affect me at all.

          However apparently between 1-10% of people are affected by seaonal affective disorder so those people may want to avoid Finland during the winter months

          • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            My wife’s sister found she has SAD when she moved to sweden. One of her kids has it too. They cope with the lights and the , well, the understanding they’re gonna be affected. They seem to suggest that it’s not rare there, and that its frequency makes it more acceptable and understandable. It’s okay to be super-down for a few days on a bad wave, and people seem to get it.

      • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
        1·
        5 months ago

        So, Chicago? Except I bet your winters are a bit longer than they are in Chicago.

        I think that hardest part wouldn’t be adjusting to the winter–I’m actually pretty okay with the kind of winter you describe–but the language. I hear that Finnish is very challenging for most people to learn to speak with any degree of fluency, unless they’re raised with it.