Oddbean new post about login | logout Did you make it after you moved out?
in australia i tried thousands of times to get jobs and crickets in Bulgaria before 2 weeks of trying i'm doing my first training shift to be fair, western europe sucks too, it was only in the balkans that i found things more reasonable... so-called "corrupt" countries lol
these days i mostly work remotely, and try to avoid getting into arrangements involving taxation... current main paid gig i don't have any binds to the local authorities and i get paid in sats, company is based in USA, so i guess they might be paying the IRS on my behalf i had to do some registration rigmerole for a job back in 2021 and that shit turned into a huge waste of time and zero tax back for my actual business expenses
It’s not so easy to just pick up and leave when you have a well-paying job, a home, and a family with school and friends rooted where we live now. I really admire those who take that leap—all respect to them. But I’ll have to wait until the kids are older before we can make that move. For now, I’m keeping my Bitcoin in cold storage, ready for the day when it’s finally possible for us to go.
being childless in middle age is nothing to envy, nor is my plague of health the only thing that is going right for me is i'm good enough at programming to be able to get work and deliver on the spec if i get lucky enough to find a wife where i go next, then, well, ok, but i played a long game and didn't have fun getting there the one thing that i am very grateful for is to not be stuck in a position where i have to figure out how to not have the state brainwash my children, that really disturbs me... i had a really bad time at school and i wouldn't wish that on my own children, and it's worse now than it was then