Also, the first class tickets for the train were totally worth it.

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    Wait, wait, wait, you can not be pulling this shit!

    Are you a flying squid or not?

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        Best start writing metres if you want to survive in the UK. People have been mercilessly dunked into the Thames for less!

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        At first I read 30 minutes at a time, and was gonna give you crap for not leapfrogging across the pond. It’s not that big. The one next to me is bigger :P

        I’m impressed she’s sleeping. I can’t sleep on airplanes no matter what I take.

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          Do you not have a biological water jet? What happens if a shark comes swimming up to you?

          Land dwellers are weird.

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            Look man, if I encounter a shark on land, I usually squat down and say ‘pspspspspsps’ until it starts rubbing it’s head against me and I give it lots of pets.

            It’s foolish to outrun them. They find you.

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            There’s a lot of places in Europe that have an ‘accident of birth’ path to citizenship (jus sanguinis vs jus soli). Here’s the ones I found:

            • If you’re of Jewish ancestry and your family fled due to the Holocaust, there’s a number of European countries that will return your citizenship. Unfortunately my mom’s family is Russian Jews.
            • Ireland, if one of your grandparents was a citizen. This applies to my father, but not to me
            • Luxembourg (where I proceed to dox myself, lol) if you’ve got a direct line male lineage back to Luxembourg between 1850 and 1947 (or male until a female born after 1970-something, Google Luxembourg article 7 citizenship). This actually does apply to me and I know more about it, but I’ve barely started the process because uprooting my life to flee somewhere safer again is a truly miserable prospect, and the choice of agencies are either a non-profit that I can afford and maybe have some money left over to relocate but they’re slower and they don’t seem keen to deal with my document mismatch due to being trans and from Florida, or a much faster, more trans friendly and expensive business.
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            Some good info below. If you have no lineage to anywhere in Europe, there are other options depending on your job and education level (not all encompassing, for sure)

            If you get hired for a skilled labor job almost always it’ll result in a visa

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              I’m in the same boat as you already have my citizenship and flying over in October to scope out a few cities and meet up with family and work out paperwork to transfer my job since I’m full time remote and so is my wife.