No actual post this week. Thanks to this wonderful world created by US hegemony, I had to spend most of this week’s energy trying to find a new source of income. If anybody wants to cover my rent going forward, I’ll be sure to post more regularly.
Oceanoxia
Exploring an increasingly strange new world
were you still in scotland?
Ireland for a few years now. I don’t mind not being in the UK right now, but I do miss the Scottish NHS. Ireland is more neoliberal in general. Moving here was moving closer to the US in more ways than one.
It’s a nice place to live, and I seem to be one of the few that actively enjoys the climate. It is also, like most of Europe, not exactly easy for a USian to get any kind of permanent status.
i half recall you didn’t originally leave ireland by choice. if so, congrats on being back. hard to imagine the difficulties of being an immigrant; hope i never have to, as much as it can be scary here.
Half right!
We didn’t leave Scotland by choice, but Ireland has been nice, at least in our academic semi-bubble.
And yeah, immigration is not fun. That said, the stress I have from that is less than the stress I had from the US healthcare system. Just got waiting list confirmation for something that would probably be prohibitively expensive if we were back in the Old Country, and after that it’s generally a pretty short time frame. That, and I know my ER bill is capped at €100.
I hadn’t realize how much all that was causing stress until I left.
im green like algae