Hello getbiggers!
It is a pleasure to have you to take time to read my topic, I really appreciate it!
I want to know how hard is to live in your country, in terms of work, like how hard is to find one?
how much money you make?
how good you can live with that money?
how many % of people can live with a decent life, have a nice car and afford to rise their children without having money problems for basic things, like education, health, toys?
how is the security around your city?
Can you safely, lets say, walk around the street at 2:00AM without having to worry about being robbed? when you park your car, can you leave the windows open without worry?
How is the national level of education in your country? the majority of people are educated enough to know, at least lets say, a little about politics, economy, history?
In my case, I live in Brazil, a very poor country, to find a job is really hard, except for doctors.
The money paid is very little, for you to have an general idea of the level of the country:
I have a bachelor degree in mechatronics engineering, with almost 10 years of experience in my field, being 4 since the degree.
Far for trying to brag about, but I am very good in what I do, I could safely say that no even 10% of the engineers of the whole country have the level of expertise in my field, that is making industrial machines and tools, like a whole production line, or a moulding tool that injects lets say your keyboard or the plastic thing in your car, or forging tools that makes lets say wrenches...
Hope you get the idea, I make anything the client wants in terms of industrial production. If you want to produce a pen, you give just the concept of the pen and I will make the entire production process to you to be able to produce that pen, all the machines, tools, assembly line and quality control.
Or just a part of the process, like you already make pens and just have trouble with the injection mould that injects the cap of the pen, I can make you a mould that will be much better in terms of quality and in terms of time.
Even so, I get paid not so much money, around R$5.000 a month (about 1k usd) and with that I cannot live very well, although i can live better than 80% of population (minimum wage is R$1.000 about 200bucks usd), so you can imagine that the majority of the country have trouble just to buy food to eat, it is really sad.
I also was never able to get a job as a real engineer like in the contract saying that, because engineers here have a least amount that they have to be paid, by law, about R$8.000 (1.600$)... So to get away from the law and pay less, they say that you are an analyst, an draftsman...
I live in a shit hole, really really bad place and it costs R$1.200 or 240$, for eat reasonable well and better than 90% of the country I spend around R$1.800 or 360$. That leaves me with less than R$2.000 or 400bucks to go through the entire month, pay the bills like energy, internet, tv and very little amusement, trip for a near city is a luxury that I can plan and have at the max once every 3 or 4 months.
My car is an old shitty one, that in the USA for example would not even be accepcted as a gift I think (this one https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Celta or google chevrolet celta 2010).
But again its a fair car around here, since the majority of people struggle to have money to take a bus (very sad my friends!)
Education is non existent, only if you have money to pay private schools. Majority of people around literally have trouble with sum and subtraction, with simple native words. Politics? what is that? the majority of people being ignorant and very poor will vote for any candidate that gives them bread with cheese (literally a true story, very sad).
Walk around the streets at 2AM? If you dont get robbed or rapped by any criminal you will be beat up or be murdered by the police itself. lol
For what I take in countries like the USA you can live reasonable well with a physical labour job, have a nice home, a nice car, kids, education, food and get some amusements.
Here a manual labour is the lowest jobs around, like a roofman or a gardner, it is the jobs left for the ones that can not get a job in a company and usually are very poor fellas, that barely have that to eat or clothes to wear.
what are you trying to sell?
Here in Brazil we are an emerging country, even today we don't have a lot of what the rest of the world has.
For you to have an idea, it is just a few years ago that we had our first KFC.
With that in mind, you can imagine that more than a decade ago we did not have any sushi available nearby.
Of course there was sushi in brazil, but just in fancy restaurants that 90% of brazilians would never dream of eating, since a simple dinner would cost about half of the minimum wage (in around 2010 the minimun wage was about R$500 (reais, our currency) and a dinner in a sushi restaurant at the time would cost nothing less than R$250-300
Around the time gh15 started talking about the sushi thing, guess what happend? the sushi restaurants started to open in every corner, specially close to the gyms.
In fact even a owner of a gym that I went opened ah sushi restaurant during that time.
Today you can check out for yourself that here in brazil the sushi restaurants are the most popular foreign food around.
If you have the opportunity to one day come to brazil, pm me and I will gladly take you for dinner at one of those restaurants.
I'm sure the first thing you will notice when you enter the place will be that 80% of the customers are gym rats.
Very easy to find work if you have degree in Optimus Prime Engineering or have fountainpens in your trailer.
We also have a lot of facilities if you want Queen Vissys.
About the pineapple, here we never had those little cans gh15 talked about.
The reason is that in brazil we have almost any fruit in large scale, so the real fresh pineapple is largely available, you can find it for about $1 a fruit that weighs about 1.5kg.
If you buy in bulk, like the distribuidos that sell box of fruits, you could get 20pinapples for about 0.3cents a piece.
bananas are about 0.5cents a pound in the supermarket
Hello getbiggers!Nice life history. No one cares.
It is a pleasure to have you to take time to read my topic, I really appreciate it!
I want to know how hard is to live in your country, in terms of work, like how hard is to find one?
how much money you make?
how good you can live with that money?
how many % of people can live with a decent life, have a nice car and afford to rise their children without having money problems for basic things, like education, health, toys?
how is the security around your city?
Can you safely, lets say, walk around the street at 2:00AM without having to worry about being robbed? when you park your car, can you leave the windows open without worry?
How is the national level of education in your country? the majority of people are educated enough to know, at least lets say, a little about politics, economy, history?
In my case, I live in Brazil, a very poor country, to find a job is really hard, except for doctors.
The money paid is very little, for you to have an general idea of the level of the country:
I have a bachelor degree in mechatronics engineering, with almost 10 years of experience in my field, being 4 since the degree.
Far for trying to brag about, but I am very good in what I do, I could safely say that no even 10% of the engineers of the whole country have the level of expertise in my field, that is making industrial machines and tools, like a whole production line, or a moulding tool that injects lets say your keyboard or the plastic thing in your car, or forging tools that makes lets say wrenches...
Hope you get the idea, I make anything the client wants in terms of industrial production. If you want to produce a pen, you give just the concept of the pen and I will make the entire production process to you to be able to produce that pen, all the machines, tools, assembly line and quality control.
Or just a part of the process, like you already make pens and just have trouble with the injection mould that injects the cap of the pen, I can make you a mould that will be much better in terms of quality and in terms of time.
Even so, I get paid not so much money, around R$5.000 a month (about 1k usd) and with that I cannot live very well, although i can live better than 80% of population (minimum wage is R$1.000 about 200bucks usd), so you can imagine that the majority of the country have trouble just to buy food to eat, it is really sad.
I also was never able to get a job as a real engineer like in the contract saying that, because engineers here have a least amount that they have to be paid, by law, about R$8.000 (1.600$)... So to get away from the law and pay less, they say that you are an analyst, an draftsman...
I live in a shit hole, really really bad place and it costs R$1.200 or 240$, for eat reasonable well and better than 90% of the country I spend around R$1.800 or 360$. That leaves me with less than R$2.000 or 400bucks to go through the entire month, pay the bills like energy, internet, tv and very little amusement, trip for a near city is a luxury that I can plan and have at the max once every 3 or 4 months.
My car is an old shitty one, that in the USA for example would not even be accepcted as a gift I think (this one https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Celta or google chevrolet celta 2010).
But again its a fair car around here, since the majority of people struggle to have money to take a bus (very sad my friends!)
Education is non existent, only if you have money to pay private schools. Majority of people around literally have trouble with sum and subtraction, with simple native words. Politics? what is that? the majority of people being ignorant and very poor will vote for any candidate that gives them bread with cheese (literally a true story, very sad).
Walk around the streets at 2AM? If you dont get robbed or rapped by any criminal you will be beat up or be murdered by the police itself. lol
For what I take in countries like the USA you can live reasonable well with a physical labour job, have a nice home, a nice car, kids, education, food and get some amusements.
Here a manual labour is the lowest jobs around, like a roofman or a gardner, it is the jobs left for the ones that can not get a job in a company and usually are very poor fellas, that barely have that to eat or clothes to wear.
Hello getbiggers!
It is a pleasure to have you to take time to read my topic, I really appreciate it!
I want to know how hard is to live in your country, in terms of work, like how hard is to find one?
how much money you make?
how good you can live with that money?
how many % of people can live with a decent life, have a nice car and afford to rise their children without having money problems for basic things, like education, health, toys?
how is the security around your city?
Can you safely, lets say, walk around the street at 2:00AM without having to worry about being robbed? when you park your car, can you leave the windows open without worry?
How is the national level of education in your country? the majority of people are educated enough to know, at least lets say, a little about politics, economy, history?
In my case, I live in Brazil, a very poor country, to find a job is really hard, except for doctors.
The money paid is very little, for you to have an general idea of the level of the country:
I have a bachelor degree in mechatronics engineering, with almost 10 years of experience in my field, being 4 since the degree.
Far for trying to brag about, but I am very good in what I do, I could safely say that no even 10% of the engineers of the whole country have the level of expertise in my field, that is making industrial machines and tools, like a whole production line, or a moulding tool that injects lets say your keyboard or the plastic thing in your car, or forging tools that makes lets say wrenches...
Hope you get the idea, I make anything the client wants in terms of industrial production. If you want to produce a pen, you give just the concept of the pen and I will make the entire production process to you to be able to produce that pen, all the machines, tools, assembly line and quality control.
Or just a part of the process, like you already make pens and just have trouble with the injection mould that injects the cap of the pen, I can make you a mould that will be much better in terms of quality and in terms of time.
Even so, I get paid not so much money, around R$5.000 a month (about 1k usd) and with that I cannot live very well, although i can live better than 80% of population (minimum wage is R$1.000 about 200bucks usd), so you can imagine that the majority of the country have trouble just to buy food to eat, it is really sad.
I also was never able to get a job as a real engineer like in the contract saying that, because engineers here have a least amount that they have to be paid, by law, about R$8.000 (1.600$)... So to get away from the law and pay less, they say that you are an analyst, an draftsman...
I live in a shit hole, really really bad place and it costs R$1.200 or 240$, for eat reasonable well and better than 90% of the country I spend around R$1.800 or 360$. That leaves me with less than R$2.000 or 400bucks to go through the entire month, pay the bills like energy, internet, tv and very little amusement, trip for a near city is a luxury that I can plan and have at the max once every 3 or 4 months.
My car is an old shitty one, that in the USA for example would not even be accepcted as a gift I think (this one https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Celta or google chevrolet celta 2010).
But again its a fair car around here, since the majority of people struggle to have money to take a bus (very sad my friends!)
Education is non existent, only if you have money to pay private schools. Majority of people around literally have trouble with sum and subtraction, with simple native words. Politics? what is that? the majority of people being ignorant and very poor will vote for any candidate that gives them bread with cheese (literally a true story, very sad).
Walk around the streets at 2AM? If you dont get robbed or rapped by any criminal you will be beat up or be murdered by the police itself. lol
For what I take in countries like the USA you can live reasonable well with a physical labour job, have a nice home, a nice car, kids, education, food and get some amusements.
Here a manual labour is the lowest jobs around, like a roofman or a gardner, it is the jobs left for the ones that can not get a job in a company and usually are very poor fellas, that barely have that to eat or clothes to wear.
dont hit the quote button any moreSorry, didn't want anyone think I was talking to anyone but him. ;D
its off limits to you
you quote the longest shit
Anda para Portugal se vens para ter uma vida decente.
Life in America is easy compared to anywhere else. All you have to do is try and you can do just about anything unless you are mentally ill or handicapped.
You can do anything in the US with hard work. The trouble is that kids bought up in the US do not want to work hard. They were led to believe if they got a college degree people would be so impressed with that they would give them an office and a secretary. Their 80K car would be in the parking lot. After work they would go to their big house with a beautiful pool in the back. The reality is they work cash register jobs because no one will hire them.
The reality is that percentage wise foreigners that come to this country are making it big because they see the opportunity. I will give you two examples. Two Polish brothers came to this country with nothing. They saw Mexicans doing roofing for their white boss who hung back and watching them work on a roof in 90 degree weather like dogs. They asked the Mexicans what they were being paid looking for work and it was $100 a day which the Mexicans were really happy about. They asked what the boss charged for the roof and they found it was $6K for the two day job on a medium house. The next week the two Polish guys were roofers on their own. Today they have a staff and drive monster pick up trucks. Both live in nice houses. They do mainly commercial roofs now.
Another is this Vietnamese guy. He came to this country almost like an indentured slave and worked in a nail salon. He learned the business front and back. Saved enough with another nail worker to get a store front. The women come in and out all day dropping $40 plus bucks. Soon they had nail salons all over the place. The one guy I talk to lives in a very rich town where the cheapest house is well over 700K.
I am talking to THIS member (http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=profile) now.
In Bangkok - it's mixed.
It's really hard to find a good job - but really easy to find a $1000 a month crappy teaching support job and live like a pauper.
.....
where else could or would you move kwon?Don't know. Too tired, too old. No energy left.
I live in San Jose, California. Life is pretty easy for me now but it was not always so. I spent 3.5 years as live in caregiver to a dying woman and I still live here rent free with her widowed husband.
Its very easy to find work and the lowest paid jobs pay 15 an hour. Monthly you would see around 2k a month after taxes. Rent is usually impossible to pay if you are single. A room for rent in san jose is between 800-1200 a one bedroom apartment easily 1800 month. I would live in my car with my cat before i paid that much. If you cannot afford a mortgage i say move away as i am doing. I moving to texas.
Anyway with your degree you would make easily 80k a year easily and if you lived where i do engineers make 150k yearly easily.
Move to the us. There is very little crime where i live i often leave my keys in my car with the windows down when im tired and have never had an issue. I know all my neighbors and all the local drug dealers which probably helps.
i live in switzerland and i really like it :D
This is not true. I have lived in
Knoxville, TN
Los Angeles
Breda, Netherlands
Copenhagen, Demark
Tokyo and Toyama, Japan
Bangkok, Thailand
They all had their charms - but US was not better/easier in any significant way. Not worse and not bad. Just not this superior place people claim it is. To me US is like Europe - the different states have quite different cultures - this is cool within a single country.
LA weather takes some beating though.
You can do anything in the US with hard work. The trouble is that kids bought up in the US do not want to work hard. They were led to believe if they got a college degree people would be so impressed with that they would give them an office and a secretary. Their 80K car would be in the parking lot. After work they would go to their big house with a beautiful pool in the back. The reality is they work cash register jobs because no one will hire them.
The reality is that percentage wise foreigners that come to this country are making it big because they see the opportunity. I will give you two examples. Two Polish brothers came to this country with nothing. They saw Mexicans doing roofing for their white boss who hung back and watching them work on a roof in 90 degree weather like dogs. They asked the Mexicans what they were being paid looking for work and it was $100 a day which the Mexicans were really happy about. They asked what the boss charged for the roof and they found it was $6K for the two day job on a medium house. The next week the two Polish guys were roofers on their own. Today they have a staff and drive monster pick up trucks. Both live in nice houses. They do mainly commercial roofs now.
Another is this Vietnamese guy. He came to this country almost like an indentured slave and worked in a nail salon. He learned the business front and back. Saved enough with another nail worker to get a store front. The women come in and out all day dropping $40 plus bucks. Soon they had nail salons all over the place. The one guy I talk to lives in a very rich town where the cheapest house is well over 700K.
America is a great country. What we call poor here is luxury in most of the world. TV, internet, cable, car.... Poor people in the US are mostly fat. Hunger is not a problem here. It's over eating. Minimum wage here will get you around $350/wk after taxes. With one roommate you can rent a decent apartment. If you follow a few basic rules: graduate from high school, don't get involved in drugs and the police, get a job -- any job, and stick with it and work hard you are guaranteed to move up the ladder if you want to. I know two people from high school. One worked at Jack-in-the-Box as a teenager and stuck with it. It's the one and only job he ever had. Today he is a District Manager and making over a 100 grand a year. Another did the exact same thing working for Walmart. Started bagging groceries and bringing in the shopping carts and now making over a $100,000. Now I don't mean you have to stay in one job. But keep working and other opportunities start to present itself. And this is for those that can't afford or don't want to go to college. It's even better if you can get an education.
I wish I could take every crybaby, ungrateful, America-hating ingrate and ship them off to third world countries like yours and let them see how the rest of the world have to live. They would kiss the ground of this country.
This is a bodybuilding board. For many most here that do serious bodybuilding their biggest problem in life is having the time and desire to eat every three hours so they don't go "catabolic."
Tldr but life is very hard here. Just a few days ago the server at the coffee shop forgot to put sprinkles on my iced frappe latte
Hello getbiggers!
It is a pleasure to have you to take time to read my topic, I really appreciate it!
I want to know how hard is to live in your country, in terms of work, like how hard is to find one?
how much money you make?
how good you can live with that money?
how many % of people can live with a decent life, have a nice car and afford to rise their children without having money problems for basic things, like education, health, toys?
how is the security around your city?
I live in massachusetts. My life is good,I make good money far from rich and far from poor.family is healthy and happy,I buy what I like and do lots of things.plenty of work as a contractor.hings are good for now.who knows what the future holds.
This is not true. I have lived in
Knoxville, TN
Los Angeles
Breda, Netherlands
Copenhagen, Demark
Tokyo and Toyama, Japan
Bangkok, Thailand
They all had their charms - but US was not better/easier in any significant way. Not worse and not bad. Just not this superior place people claim it is. To me US is like Europe - the different states have quite different cultures - this is cool within a single country.
LA weather takes some beating though.
This. All truth.
Note: Regarding leaving your car unlocked with the windows open all night...no, you can't do that.
Is that so? Tell me more about things i know that are true which you say are lies.
Is that so? Tell me more about things i know that are true which you say are lies.
Is that so? Tell me more about things i know that are true which you say are lies.Chill bro. I wasn't talking to you. I don't live in Mayberry either. In the vast majority of American cities and larger population centers some drug addict will rob your car if you leave it unlocked. There's a reason people have all those security systems and video cams installed.
Life is great!
In Bangkok - it's mixed.
It's really hard to find a good job - but really easy to find a $1000 a month crappy teaching support job and live like a pauper.
I came on a contract, then got offered a position to stay and be a director in a company. When I quit that (decided against joining a buyout) - there was NOTHING for me. I had to persuade a Japanese company to let me start a company for them here.
Visas are a pain till you hit 50. Security-wise - very safe, but you know - there's idiots everywhere. And there is a chance of marrying a young chick that wants to take all your money then bump you off.
You can't own land and the laws seem anti-foreigner but I find that people are nice to you if you are nice to them. You cannot pull the "angry American here" but it's fun to watch when people do.
The country pretty much runs on "if you do something and hurt yourself - it's your fault". So you can do adventurous stuff that wouldn't be allowed (or they'd have taken the fun out of) in more 'developed' countries. This does of course lead to occasional deaths but whatever.
Road rage is rare, everyone in Bangkok drives like an asshole - by the time you got angry and finished shouting at the guy that just cut you off - 2 other people already did the same. So fuck it. Drive like an asshole too.
Food is amazing and cheap. Western food is a bit expensive. Bangkok has 1000s of restaurants - so whatever you want, you can get. Houses are cheap. Cars are very expensive - I have 3 cars and the combined price I paid for the 3 was $350k but my main house in Bangkok cost $250k and the upcountry house cost a ridiculous $25k to build a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom spacey bungalow.
International schools are expensive but local schools are terrible - figure in about $15k a year minimum per kid - but don't be daft and start paying that when they are 3 yrs old in an international pre-school. Thai school till 5 is fine.
There is nobody here to tell you to put the brakes on - so if you survive the first few years, it's a nice life. There is a lot of tempation and you need to slow things down.
You can't own land and the laws seem anti-foreigner but all laws here are just guidelines and money can see you walk away from any indiscretion. There's this idea that traffic accidents and the like will always see the foreigner blamed - but I just haven't experienced it -just don't be an asshole and shout at everyone and you will be treated equally.
What I like - you still have to double-take all the time, there's so many crazy things going on.
One that sticks in my head was one night I was driving and drinking - I stopped drinking at 10pm and we left the place about 1am and I drove straignt to a checkpoint on Sukhumvit Rd. They took me out of the car and got be to blow into the machine. The threshold was 80 at the time. So I blew and they put it on the table to watch. Up it went 40-50-60... then got to 70 and was slowly creeping up. 75 passed and I thought I was screwed till it stopped at 78.1. We all sat and stared for a few seconds - to see if it would go any higher and when it didn't all the cops around screamed in delight - laughing, patting me on the back, calling me "lucky man". asking me what I thought the lottery number would be on Saturday.
Absolutely hilarious - where I am from they would have given me a 30-minute lecture for being so close but I think it made these cops night.
It's not for everyone but after 22 years, I doubt I'd live anywhere else.
Just don't sell up your shit at home and buy a bar here 'cause you met some young fuckpiece that says she loves you. She doesn't - you are one of many and it's likely she has a Thai husband.
I have two average to above average vaginas on rotation and two cars. Both cars are awesome so I'm pretty happy.
Two cars too drive two pussies too tap... I'm set brazzie.
mexicans dont get citizenship, dont pay taxes, and have no ssn
they can fuck off right back to their uneducated shithole
not everyone needs labor jobs, or dishwashers
the polish could read and write and acted accordingly
park your car on your lawn and fly a mexican flag
youll get jack shit sympathy from me, or any other red blooded american
i didnt get a high school dimploma
got a ged
went to college but didnt graduate
worked as a indipendant contractor for majority of my life
was my own boss. relied only on myself and my skills to hustle and earn money.
now im pretty much done working, will work if there is a great opportunity to make lots of cash. and unclaimable cash.
not gonna pay for you old folks anymore to cry, bitch, and whine
Typical Republican white trash
Typical Republican white trash
America is a great country. What we call poor here is luxury in most of the world. TV, internet, cable, car.... Poor people in the US are mostly fat. Hunger is not a problem here. It's over eating. Minimum wage here will get you around $350/wk after taxes. With one roommate you can rent a decent apartment. If you follow a few basic rules: graduate from high school, don't get involved in drugs and the police, get a job -- any job, and stick with it and work hard you are guaranteed to move up the ladder if you want to. I know two people from high school. One worked at Jack-in-the-Box as a teenager and stuck with it. It's the one and only job he ever had. Today he is a District Manager and making over a 100 grand a year. Another did the exact same thing working for Walmart. Started bagging groceries and bringing in the shopping carts and now making over a $100,000. Now I don't mean you have to stay in one job. But keep working and other opportunities start to present itself. And this is for those that can't afford or don't want to go to college. It's even better if you can get an education.
I wish I could take every crybaby, ungrateful, America-hating ingrate and ship them off to third world countries like yours and let them see how the rest of the world have to live. They would kiss the ground of this country.
This is a bodybuilding board. For many most here that do serious bodybuilding their biggest problem in life is having the time and desire to eat every three hours so they don't go "catabolic."
One day when you're old, I hope you remember this post, as I will be pissing on your quadriplegic torso...
Where do you live now?
What's wrong with you & other old Pomie farangs, it's 2020 not bloody 1980 !. Never ending :'( :'( :'(
I have a Thai Elite Visa, so no issues !.
Kingdom of Thailand don't sell land to Chings & others like Australia,Canada,US,.................so what's wrong with that !.
Farangs can only own 49% of a business/bar !.
Typical Republican white trash
I’m not Republican, I’m a Conservative. I was basically a single parent until my son was 7. I was a broke personal trainer at the time. I got out of commercial roofing industry after almost 20 years to start my training business solely to spend more time with my baby boy. I worked my ass off and built my training business within 2 years all the while paying attorneys fees fighting to keep custody of my son and within that two years (with no handouts) eventually making a little over $100k within that two years.
4 years after that I bought the home I live in now...in HB on the beach. There’s a lot that went on in between that, but the bottom line is, I made no excuses worked my ass off and have been waking up to the beach and smell of the ocean every morning for the last 17 years. Yeah, California’s Government is just short of communism, but I’ll over come that too.
We’re not guaranteed anything in life nor is anyone entitled. Either you want it or you don’t
Roofing is brutal.
Yeah if you came here you would have to go back to college, they won't accept your degree here. But you could still work up the food chain; start doing CAD and then learn design process and construction management. I work in Structural Engineering, Design and Construction. One guy i work with is from the Philippines, had a double major Civil Engineering/Construction Management degree from there; completely useless here. However he started doing design and some construction management, learned everything he could and became a project manager. He makes really good money, just isn't considered an engineer, but he can engineer bridges better than almost all the PE's we have on staff. Go figure.
I have CAD operators that work for me that make $35 per hour, plus time and a half overtime. Once you learn real design and design your own projects from start to finish, it gets up to $40-45 per hour. Not a bad living. Some of the CAD Managers and Senior Lead Designers make $50-60 per hour. There is always hope.
I’m not Republican, I’m a Conservative. I was basically a single parent until my son was 7. I was a broke personal trainer at the time. I got out of commercial roofing industry after almost 20 years to start my training business solely to spend more time with my baby boy. I worked my ass off and built my training business within 2 years all the while paying attorneys fees fighting to keep custody of my son and within that two years (with no handouts) eventually making a little over $100k within that two years.
4 years after that I bought the home I live in now...in HB on the beach. There’s a lot that went on in between that, but the bottom line is, I made no excuses worked my ass off and have been waking up to the beach and smell of the ocean every morning for the last 17 years. Yeah, California’s Government is just short of communism, but I’ll over come that too.
We’re not guaranteed anything in life nor is anyone entitled. Either you want it or you don’t
Yes it is,I roofed first many years when younger and would usually do 60 hours a week and hit the gym after 10 hours on a roof 5 days a week. Was brutal but loved it at the time.I could do shit like than when I was young as well. It would kill me now.
At my age, I no longer get up on the roof. It is a 6-in-12 pitch which doesn't seem that steep until your standing on it. The is is a cedar shake roof doesn't help. When I was in my 30's we lived in a home with a 8-in-12 pitch composition roof. I had no trouble back then climbing around on it.
Life in the U.S. is indeed better than it is in many other countries. Actually, it ranks 15th of 82 out of the countries in the world. Nigeria is at the bottom of the heap and Denmark is number 1. https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp (https://www.numbeo.com/quality-of-life/rankings_by_country.jsp)
The current minimum wage in Hawaii is $10.60, going up to $10.80 next year. So your after tax income of $350 seems about right if not a little low since people making minimum wage don't generally pay a lot in income tax. My sister's income is a little over $2,000 a month, $1,200 of it is SSD and therefore not taxed. She gets everything she'd paid in both state and federal income tax back each year. I know because I do her taxes for her.
Rents must be a bit cheaper in parts of Oahu than I thought. Most agree and landlords often require tenant's income be 3 times the rental amount. https://rentberry.com/blog/ (https://rentberry.com/blog/)
In 2020, the average rent for an apartment in Honolulu is $1,881 for an average apartment size of 544 sq. ft. https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/hi/honolulu/ (https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/hi/honolulu/)
mexicans dont get citizenship, dont pay taxes, and have no ssn
they can fuck off right back to their uneducated shithole
not everyone needs labor jobs, or dishwashers
the polish could read and write and acted accordingly
park your car on your lawn and fly a mexican flag
youll get jack shit sympathy from me, or any other red blooded american
i didnt get a high school dimploma
got a ged
went to college but didnt graduate
worked as a indipendant contractor for majority of my life
was my own boss. relied only on myself and my skills to hustle and earn money.
now im pretty much done working, will work if there is a great opportunity to make lots of cash. and unclaimable cash.
not gonna pay for you old folks anymore to cry, bitch, and whine
Life in the U.S. is indeed better than it is in many other countries. Actually, it ranks 15th of 82 out of the countries in the world. Nigeria is at the bottom of the heap and Denmark is number 1.
Thank you all that posted so far. There was a lot of good stories.
I wish I could move to america, but it is not as easy as it seems. My degree will not be worth nothing over there.
I think I could work as draftsman, which I was most of my life, I am really good at that, actually I even teach solidworks and autocad (softwares that we use, they are called CAD computer aided design)
I know how to work with a lot of manual things also, like I am a welder really good at TIG and MIG.
Another thing that I dont know how it is called, but its the guy that works before the welder do his job, the guy that cut, bend, roll the stell sheets, structural components like angle and I-bean, in portuguese it is called "caldeireiro".
I even know how to do nails lol, I am saying because one member mentioned nail saloon lol
All things that I think that having a job to work I could at least live a reasonable life, 10x better than here.
But it is very hard to find a job overseas and the company willing to wait for you to move.
It usually happens but with IT or high level positions, like manager, director...
There are a lot of guys that go to the USA but as visitor or ilegal cross the border.. and when get there they need to find a job to live...
I can not do that, I mean if I was single and all.. but my wife is just to have our baby, I would need to go at least with a job guaranteed, it could be anything, I wouldn't mind doing anything as long as it is licit.
This shithole country really pisses me off.
I didn't even mention the things we are going trough with my father that is fighting cancer because I see a lot of guys don't like new members and have to take their time to get familiarized to... but it is not being easy my friends...
Well you can toss that ranking survey then, lol. Spend any time in Denmark? You'd kill yourself after a month. I had a Danish pro cyclist stay at my house a few years ago while he raced for an American team. He pretty much admitted Denmark is a shithole and wanted to move to the USA.
Finland Number three? LMAO. You do know they have one of the highest alcoholism rates in the world? And for good reason. It's boring and half the year it's dark for 20 hours.
I've been to a zillion countries on recreational and business travel. They all have their pluses and minuses. I think Switzerland is one of the most beautiful but also one of the most uptight. Germany is nice but heading the wrong way fast. You can keep all of Asia- it truly sucks there.
When you sum it all up, the best place on the planet is the USA. It's so big you can live in any climate you like and don't have to live on top of people if you don't want to. It has opportunity, natural beauty - everything.
Citizens who hate the USA should leave since they are terminally retarded. Spend some time in Russia and let me know how wonderful it is, haha.
Well you can toss that ranking survey then, lol. Spend any time in Denmark? You'd kill yourself after a month. I had a Danish pro cyclist stay at my house a few years ago while he raced for an American team. He pretty much admitted Denmark is a shithole and wanted to move to the USA.
Finland Number three? LMAO. You do know they have one of the highest alcoholism rates in the world? And for good reason. It's boring and half the year it's dark for 20 hours.
I've been to a zillion countries on recreational and business travel. They all have their pluses and minuses. I think Switzerland is one of the most beautiful but also one of the most uptight. Germany is nice but heading the wrong way fast. You can keep all of Asia- it truly sucks there.
When you sum it all up, the best place on the planet is the USA. It's so big you can live in any climate you like and don't have to live on top of people if you don't want to. It has opportunity, natural beauty - everything.
Citizens who hate the USA should leave since they are terminally retarded. Spend some time in Russia and let me know how wonderful it is, haha.
Well you can toss that ranking survey then, lol. Spend any time in Denmark? You'd kill yourself after a month. I had a Danish pro cyclist stay at my house a few years ago while he raced for an American team. He pretty much admitted Denmark is a shithole and wanted to move to the USA.
Finland Number three? LMAO. You do know they have one of the highest alcoholism rates in the world? And for good reason. It's boring and half the year it's dark for 20 hours.
I've been to a zillion countries on recreational and business travel. They all have their pluses and minuses. I think Switzerland is one of the most beautiful but also one of the most uptight. Germany is nice but heading the wrong way fast. You can keep all of Asia- it truly sucks there.
When you sum it all up, the best place on the planet is the USA. It's so big you can live in any climate you like and don't have to live on top of people if you don't want to. It has opportunity, natural beauty - everything.
Citizens who hate the USA should leave since they are terminally retarded. Spend some time in Russia and let me know how wonderful it is, haha.
This is a fairly accurate summary. Norway is the only Scandinavian country where life is pretty decent. Baltic countries are way too high on the list.
Ireland should be higher and Dubai India is a shocking omission!
Thank you all that posted so far. There was a lot of good stories.
I wish I could move to america, but it is not as easy as it seems. My degree will not be worth nothing over there.
I think I could work as draftsman, which I was most of my life, I am really good at that, actually I even teach solidworks and autocad (softwares that we use, they are called CAD computer aided design)
I know how to work with a lot of manual things also, like I am a welder really good at TIG and MIG.
Another thing that I dont know how it is called, but its the guy that works before the welder do his job, the guy that cut, bend, roll the stell sheets, structural components like angle and I-bean, in portuguese it is called "caldeireiro".
I even know how to do nails lol, I am saying because one member mentioned nail saloon lol
All things that I think that having a job to work I could at least live a reasonable life, 10x better than here.
But it is very hard to find a job overseas and the company willing to wait for you to move.
It usually happens but with IT or high level positions, like manager, director...
There are a lot of guys that go to the USA but as visitor or ilegal cross the border.. and when get there they need to find a job to live...
I can not do that, I mean if I was single and all.. but my wife is just to have our baby, I would need to go at least with a job guaranteed, it could be anything, I wouldn't mind doing anything as long as it is licit.
This shithole country really pisses me off.
I didn't even mention the things we are going trough with my father that is fighting cancer because I see a lot of guys don't like new members and have to take their time to get familiarized to... but it is not being easy my friends...
Thank you all that posted so far. There was a lot of good stories.
I wish I could move to america, but it is not as easy as it seems. My degree will not be worth nothing over there.
I think I could work as draftsman, which I was most of my life, I am really good at that, actually I even teach solidworks and autocad (softwares that we use, they are called CAD computer aided design)
I know how to work with a lot of manual things also, like I am a welder really good at TIG and MIG.
Another thing that I dont know how it is called, but its the guy that works before the welder do his job, the guy that cut, bend, roll the stell sheets, structural components like angle and I-bean, in portuguese it is called "caldeireiro".
I even know how to do nails lol, I am saying because one member mentioned nail saloon lol
All things that I think that having a job to work I could at least live a reasonable life, 10x better than here.
But it is very hard to find a job overseas and the company willing to wait for you to move.
It usually happens but with IT or high level positions, like manager, director...
There are a lot of guys that go to the USA but as visitor or ilegal cross the border.. and when get there they need to find a job to live...
I can not do that, I mean if I was single and all.. but my wife is just to have our baby, I would need to go at least with a job guaranteed, it could be anything, I wouldn't mind doing anything as long as it is licit.
This shithole country really pisses me off.
I didn't even mention the things we are going trough with my father that is fighting cancer because I see a lot of guys don't like new members and have to take their time to get familiarized to... but it is not being easy my friends...
You have to take into account who makes these rankings. So much of the world resents America, especially the elites. One only has to ask themselves how many people are risking their lives to move to Denmark or Finland. Remember that kid who use to post here from Finland? Always complained about the weather, women, opportunities... he would jump at the chance to live here.
But I don't mind telling the world America is not the best place to live. Maybe they won't come here.
I'm from Finland and these are my pros and cons.
+free healthcare and education for everybody
+safe
+there is no extreme poverty
+nature
-high taxes (my tax bracket is 38% + 8 % mandatory for 401k)
-everything is expensive and taxed to the max
-cold most of the year
-it's really hard to make a big buck
Always love to travel to US. Last year I drove from LA to New York with my buddy. Lots of Denny's and Gatorades ;D
Isn't it dark for half the year?
Would you choose to live in the state of your choice in America if you could? Not every state is like New York or Los Angeles.
Yeah it's also dark here half the year. I could see myself living in America. Culture wise Finland and US are quite similar except we don't care about guns that much ;D We have the same fast food chains, same music, movies.. Everybody here speak English. It is not that much of a culture shock to visit Scandinavian countries as an american.
This is a fairly accurate summary. Norway is the only Scandinavian country where life is pretty decent. Baltic countries are way too high on the list.I am considering immigrating to Dubai, India, the greatest place on Earth!
Ireland should be higher and Dubai India is a shocking omission!
Why are you telling me this? I know you like to display your skills with google but I can do that if I was interested, and being that I actually live here I am well aware of the cost of housing and the minimum wage,
Truth, here in Sweden we grew up with Dallas, Magnum PI, Falcon Crest, Star Trek, North and South, Dynasty, Macahan family (Zeb Macahan was a rolemodel for many here back in the day), Little house on the Prairie etc, and movies like E.T, Jaws and such.
McDonalds ; Coke/Pepsi ; British and American music/bands also were very popular for us growing up. Did we listen to many swedish bands when we grew up? Not much, it was things like Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen etc
We also had many British series on the telly like Onedin Line etc, which is why every swede growing up in the 70s and 80s are so good at understanding English.
I very much enjoy the dark half of the year and it is very tranquil when the snow has covered the houses and you see all the christmaslights out.
The older i got, the less addicted to summertime i got.
North and South in 1985
Back in the 70s to 90s, Sweden, Finland and the US were much more similar and compatible.
An american coming to Sweden (let's say Stockholm, Gothenburg or Malmö) today though, would be a bit shocked i think! :D
It's not like it was back in the good old days.
My favorite ex was half-finnish.
If you looked at a dozen surveys showing which country has the highest quality of life, the rankings would likely be different in each one. Rankings are based on what questions were asked, who did the asking and the source of the answers. I posted one survey. It is understandable some people might agree with it and others not. This is true of any survey.
You can keep all of Asia- it truly sucks there.
When you sum it all up, the best place on the planet is the USA.
Saggy why is BoBo Ziruolo in :-* :-* :-* with you ???, must be those orange panties ;D
I'm from Finland and these are my pros and cons.
+free healthcare and education for everybody
+safe
+there is no extreme poverty
+nature
-high taxes (my tax bracket is 38% + 8 % mandatory for 401k)
-everything is expensive and taxed to the max
-cold most of the year
-it's really hard to make a big buck
Always love to travel to US. Last year I drove from LA to New York with my buddy. Lots of Denny's and Gatorades ;D
I'm a Finn but born and living in Sweden. Finland looks like heaven right about now. My area is like the darkest Africa. Makes me mad every single day, this fucking beautiful country fucked beyond repair :D
I remember, a few years back, fucking Reinfeldt, Swedish PM, went to Finland to lecture them on how to also ruin their country with immigrants :D
I could see myself moving to Finland for a quiet old age. The number of Swedes I hear talking about moving from Sweden is amazing, everyone is ready to abandon this ship.
In Sweden, life is EASY
if you are a Somali family with 7 children (8th on the way) without any desire to learn Swedish, since everything will be paid for by the Swedish Government, or if you are a 30+ year old Afghan-man saying you have lost your ID and are 14-16 years of age and get placed in a schoolclass with other 14 year olds, where the rapeprobability is off the charts.
You also get near free dental-care for around 50 Swedish Kronas while us others who are born in Sweden have to pay 1500+
Just wonderful.
Hidden camera during dentist-visit pretending to be "paperless immigrant"
How to fix teeth for free - our reporter tries dental care for illegals
Hello pellius and Dave D
I was very happy seeing your replies, believe-me it's a great comfort just to hear that my job would be worth something in a decent place.
Living in my circumstances makes a man feel like he is worth nothing and sometimes question the reason for living. Knowing that most of that is just a result of living in the wrong place brings some comfort.
I know that is asking too much for a guy that you guys don't know very well, but any of you would mind to give me some guidelines in how could I apply for these jobs?
If fact as I mentioned it doesn't have to be even in my field, I would happily go for any job that I can get guaranteed before living my country, I think that you didn't see my previous post I mentioned that my wife is pregnant, so there is no way of moving and look for a job after.
I tried many times in the past applying for USA companies, but for a non native is difficult to find the ways. A little help from the inside maybe seems like nothing, but could definitely change one results.
Like you mentioned that there are employers that are happy to hire immigrants. The main difficult for me is how could I find those employers.
I know that someone would like my experience, which is hard to find, especially because I have that Knowledge that start at the manufacturing and goes into the design.
The most common thing is people only knowing design thus not having much idea of how it will work his ideas, how the parts are going to be manufactured and things like that.. resulting in really shit things.
Like when you are going to clean your blender and wonder why there is spots that are so difficult to clean.
You want to believe that the reason is because the design needed to be that way because of whatever.
But chances are that the guy who did the design didn't knew right from left, the guy that approved even less...
The result is that the difficult spot to clean started to give headaches long before you bought it. The guys who made the injection mould fist found that problem you better believe it, because if it's hard to clean you can imagine how hard was to make that shit into the mould to begin with.
Hello pellius and Dave D
I was very happy seeing your replies, believe-me it's a great comfort just to hear that my job would be worth something in a decent place.
Living in my circumstances makes a man feel like he is worth nothing and sometimes question the reason for living. Knowing that most of that is just a result of living in the wrong place brings some comfort.
I know that is asking too much for a guy that you guys don't know very well, but any of you would mind to give me some guidelines in how could I apply for these jobs?
If fact as I mentioned it doesn't have to be even in my field, I would happily go for any job that I can get guaranteed before living my country, I think that you didn't see my previous post I mentioned that my wife is pregnant, so there is no way of moving and look for a job after.
I tried many times in the past applying for USA companies, but for a non native is difficult to find the ways. A little help from the inside maybe seems like nothing, but could definitely change one results.
Like you mentioned that there are employers that are happy to hire immigrants. The main difficult for me is how could I find those employers.
I know that someone would like my experience, which is hard to find, especially because I have that Knowledge that start at the manufacturing and goes into the design.
The most common thing is people only knowing design thus not having much idea of how it will work his ideas, how the parts are going to be manufactured and things like that.. resulting in really shit things.
Like when you are going to clean your blender and wonder why there is spots that are so difficult to clean.
You want to believe that the reason is because the design needed to be that way because of whatever.
But chances are that the guy who did the design didn't knew right from left, the guy that approved even less...
The result is that the difficult spot to clean started to give headaches long before you bought it. The guys who made the injection mould fist found that problem you better believe it, because if it's hard to clean you can imagine how hard was to make that shit into the mould to begin with.
ASK Straw who is BoBo Ziruolo , U A his orange man ;D
Say HI to grandaughters !.
OBW, Mr.Trump kills rioting in yours village :D
You in Stockholm Van B?
You people are suckers
If you moved it would all end
No free things off your labor anymore
Just move abd be free
Or stay And complain
Well you can toss that ranking survey then, lol. Spend any time in Denmark? You'd kill yourself after a month. I had a Danish pro cyclist stay at my house a few years ago while he raced for an American team. He pretty much admitted Denmark is a shithole and wanted to move to the USA.
Finland Number three? LMAO. You do know they have one of the highest alcoholism rates in the world? And for good reason. It's boring and half the year it's dark for 20 hours.
I've been to a zillion countries on recreational and business travel. They all have their pluses and minuses. I think Switzerland is one of the most beautiful but also one of the most uptight. Germany is nice but heading the wrong way fast. You can keep all of Asia- it truly sucks there.
When you sum it all up, the best place on the planet is the USA. It's so big you can live in any climate you like and don't have to live on top of people if you don't want to. It has opportunity, natural beauty - everything.
Citizens who hate the USA should leave since they are terminally retarded. Spend some time in Russia and let me know how wonderful it is, haha.
I would hope you are aware of the cost of housing and the minimum wage in Oahu. Other people besides you read what is posted here and they might be just as interested in these things as I was.
Hello pellius and Dave D
I was very happy seeing your replies, believe-me it's a great comfort just to hear that my job would be worth something in a decent place.
Living in my circumstances makes a man feel like he is worth nothing and sometimes question the reason for living. Knowing that most of that is just a result of living in the wrong place brings some comfort.
I know that is asking too much for a guy that you guys don't know very well, but any of you would mind to give me some guidelines in how could I apply for these jobs?
If fact as I mentioned it doesn't have to be even in my field, I would happily go for any job that I can get guaranteed before living my country, I think that you didn't see my previous post I mentioned that my wife is pregnant, so there is no way of moving and look for a job after.
I tried many times in the past applying for USA companies, but for a non native is difficult to find the ways. A little help from the inside maybe seems like nothing, but could definitely change one results.
Like you mentioned that there are employers that are happy to hire immigrants. The main difficult for me is how could I find those employers.
I know that someone would like my experience, which is hard to find, especially because I have that Knowledge that start at the manufacturing and goes into the design.
The most common thing is people only knowing design thus not having much idea of how it will work his ideas, how the parts are going to be manufactured and things like that.. resulting in really shit things.
Like when you are going to clean your blender and wonder why there is spots that are so difficult to clean.
You want to believe that the reason is because the design needed to be that way because of whatever.
But chances are that the guy who did the design didn't knew right from left, the guy that approved even less...
The result is that the difficult spot to clean started to give headaches long before you bought it. The guys who made the injection mould fist found that problem you better believe it, because if it's hard to clean you can imagine how hard was to make that shit into the mould to begin with.
Somaliland, Gothenburg :D
Sure, that sounds reasonable. But others feel they should stay and fight - not that the fight is likely winnable.
It's like if Harris becomes US president, should patriotic Americans just get up and move? Or stay and complain?
But yeah, I get what you're saying.
Swedes are eyeing Poland and Hungary as alternatives in the future. But it's still not the same people, the Swedes would not feel like Polacks or Hungarians. So it's a fucked up situation all around.
Ah right! We have a Little Mogadishu here in Stockholm! :D
Have you heard anyone say anything positive about Somalians? I've only heard negative stuff, even other Africans say they are animals. I know this is a terrible view of human beings but they are really hard to like. Even their backward ways might somewhat be tolerable but when they start to rob people and traffic drugs on top of everything else it starts to really piss people off.
When this whole BLM thing started they had a pathetic demonstration here in Gothenburg. I was pissed because public transport was halted and I just wanted to get home. As I was standing at the bus stop there were a bunch of blacks standing there with their signs. One Somali stood in front of me with a sign that said, "Respect African culture, bitch!"
Bitch? Who's a bitch? What culture? Clit chopping and Kat chewing culture? Lol I was fuming but kind of laughing at the same time, it was pathetic :D
One more thing that can improve your chances of getting a job. Don't get tattoos. If you have to get them go easy. Nobody is going to see your torso or legs but be very careful what you have on your arms. And for God's sake, don't touch your face! I never got the appeal of permanently marking your body. It's so lame and use to be reserved for sailors, gang bangers, and the Yakuza. There's nothing positive about tattoos and it says nothing positive about you. Nobody's appearance is ever improved by tattoos. It's only to make the wearer feel good about whatever message they are trying to convey which probably no one other than themselves gets.
What is "yours" village? My village is doing just fine. There is no rioting where I live and likely never will be.
You seem fixated on my granddaughters. Give it up. There is no chance in hell that they would give you the time of day.
I'm a Finn but born and living in Sweden. Finland looks like heaven right about now. My area is like the darkest Africa. Makes me mad every single day, this fucking beautiful country fucked beyond repair :DIf you have a foot in Finland I'd move 100%, what's holding you back. Sweden will never be the same. It's around 35% non-whites in Sweden right now. I think we are at a tipping point for sure, only a matter of time. Demographics is everything...
I remember, a few years back, fucking Reinfeldt, Swedish PM, went to Finland to lecture them on how to also ruin their country with immigrants :D
I could see myself moving to Finland for a quiet old age. The number of Swedes I hear talking about moving from Sweden is amazing, everyone is ready to abandon this ship.
Yeah, never heard anything positive about Somalis.
Never experienced anything positive about them.
These are basically the Somalians we have here (beside the Families that get 8+ children and refuse to learn Swedish)
I'm from Finland and these are my pros and cons.I think taxes in Sweden is even worse. Because Sweden has "hidden" taxation Everywhere. They even put a tax on plastic bags in the stores now adding around 350% to the regular cost so it costs almost a dollar now for a fucking plastic bag. So everyone started carrying backpacks and bringing their own bags so that wasn't their smartest move. But elsewhere there is taxes too.
+free healthcare and education for everybody
+safe
+there is no extreme poverty
+nature
-high taxes (my tax bracket is 38% + 8 % mandatory for 401k)
-everything is expensive and taxed to the max
-cold most of the year
-it's really hard to make a big buck
Always love to travel to US. Last year I drove from LA to New York with my buddy. Lots of Denny's and Gatorades ;D
Somaliland, Gothenburg :D
Sure, that sounds reasonable. But others feel they should stay and fight - not that the fight is likely winnable.
It's like if Harris becomes US president, should patriotic Americans just get up and move? Or stay and complain?
But yeah, I get what you're saying.
Swedes are eyeing Poland and Hungary as alternatives in the future. But it's still not the same people, the Swedes would not feel like Polacks or Hungarians. So it's a fucked up situation all around.
I think taxes in Sweden is even worse. Because Sweden has "hidden" taxation Everywhere. They even put a tax on plastic bags in the stores now adding around 350% to the regular cost so it costs almost a dollar now for a fucking plastic bag. So everyone started carrying backpacks and bringing their own bags so that wasn't their smartest move. But elsewhere there is taxes too.
They are even talking about taxing cars for milage. Every car will have a milage counter. Because with electric cars, the goverment wont get in money from the heavily taxed gas and diesel so they need to do something they figure, to pay for the shitskins. They are desperate now...
I think taxes in Sweden is even worse. Because Sweden has "hidden" taxation Everywhere. They even put a tax on plastic bags in the stores now adding around 350% to the regular cost so it costs almost a dollar now for a fucking plastic bag. So everyone started carrying backpacks and bringing their own bags so that wasn't their smartest move. But elsewhere there is taxes too.
They are even talking about taxing cars for milage. Every car will have a milage counter. Because with electric cars, the goverment wont get in money from the heavily taxed gas and diesel so they need to do something they figure, to pay for the shitskins. They are desperate now...
The plastic bag thing may have been a relatively minor thing but irritating nonetheless. :D Like removing those small plastic bags for vegetetables etc and switching to paper bags. The "climate cost" was shown to be higher with paper bags, you'd have to re-use a plastic bag hundreds or thousands of times to make it worth it to use paper :D
Regarding backpacks, all the leftists, and there are a lot of them here, use these "Fjällräven" backpacks. It's funny how you can tell peoples' political orientation by just looking at them :D
Hey pellius my friend, thank you very much for your reply
It was really really helpful, I am doing some searches based on what you said to see if I can reach some companies or business owner to have a little chat, maybe I can get someone to listen to my experiencie and desire to move.
I am a very easy guy to do any kind of business, as long as I can afford just to have a home to live and food to eat I will be happy because I know that I will work my way up.
I mean even here in brazil I managed to do a lot with what I had. Those opportunities that you guys mentioned here I couldn't imagine to have here even in my wildest dreams.
Here we do not even have the opportunity to begin with. Like with all my background I am about to become jobless because my current job at the general electric (GE) is becoming to its end (it was a temporary job agreement) and there is no way in hell those guys can hire me as a ge employee, I talked even with the CEO here, the most I got was an invitation to stay tuned to the company's job webpage. lol
The jobs opportunities that show up in the site for brazil many times come up and disappear sam day, it is all marked cards
For what I take in the USA the general electric is doing anything they can do find talents.
Soon I am going to be struggling to get another job.
Again, it's being able to move here that will be the first obstacle. When it comes to the U.S. it makes a huge difference which state you move to as far as opportunities and cost of living. I'm in Hawaii and most jobs are entry level service type jobs because tourism is a major industry. Fast food, hotels, restaurants, driving... it is also the most expensive state to live in. If I had to pick a state I'd pick Texas. Decent cost of living, a lot of opportunities. If you have experience working at GE you will have a very, very good chance getting a position there in Texas. I'm pretty sure you'll easily start at $20/hr with tons of chances to move up. But when you first come here, unless you have a lot of money saved up, you might have to get a job quickly so you have some income. For any kind of entry level job if you start applying right away you should be able to get something in a couple of weeks. Like I said before, entry level jobs are ridiculously easy to get here. Most states pay more than the minimum wage because it's hard to find workers. With Texas you start at $10/hr and cost of living is cheap compared to a lot of other states and you can rent a decent studio apartment and survive on that until other opportunities pop up. And I've been to Brasil and a studio apartment here is like luxury compare to what the average Brasilian has to live in.
Again, when I talk about entry level jobs it jobs like stocking, retail, fast food, restaurants. You apply at places like Walmart, McDonald's, Target .... When I first move to Cali I just went to the nearest mall and just applied at the various stores I wanted to work at. I got hired within a week at Sears.
Transportation will be a challenge but the bus systems are really great in this country. You can go on the net and find the bus system for your state and type in where you are and where you want to go. Also, you can just call and they'll tell you step by step what bus to take. When I first moved back to Hawaii I didn't have a car and had to take the bus for around the first two weeks I was here. Very easy. Right now I work in town where parking is $15/hr or $400/month so I take the bus. And because it's at a time when everybody is going to work and going into town they have Express buses that has much fewer stops and gets you right into town. And you don't have to worry about all the bums and low-lives you usually encounter because they don't get up that early since they don't work but live of welfare.
If you can only get here and take advantage of all the opportunities available to those willing to work hard you'll do fine. America is not perfect but it's really a great place to live. I only wish I could do a swap and send one of our many ungrateful, self-entitled, crybabies living here to your country and have you take their place. People born and raised here have no idea how lucky they are.
Nice text Mr.Hawaii !.
I still think to live on the beach in 1970 restored VW Kombi , new electric version sucks with only 200km battery capacity !.
+ free outdoor gym & free coconuts life is goooood !!!!.
Hello getbiggers!
It is a pleasure to have you to take time to read my topic, I really appreciate it!
I want to know how hard is to live in your country, in terms of work, like how hard is to find one?
how much money you make?
how good you can live with that money?
how many % of people can live with a decent life, have a nice car and afford to rise their children without having money problems for basic things, like education, health, toys?
how is the security around your city?
Can you safely, lets say, walk around the street at 2:00AM without having to worry about being robbed? when you park your car, can you leave the windows open without worry?
How is the national level of education in your country? the majority of people are educated enough to know, at least lets say, a little about politics, economy, history?
In my case, I live in Brazil, a very poor country, to find a job is really hard, except for doctors.
The money paid is very little, for you to have an general idea of the level of the country:
I have a bachelor degree in mechatronics engineering, with almost 10 years of experience in my field, being 4 since the degree.
Far for trying to brag about, but I am very good in what I do, I could safely say that no even 10% of the engineers of the whole country have the level of expertise in my field, that is making industrial machines and tools, like a whole production line, or a moulding tool that injects lets say your keyboard or the plastic thing in your car, or forging tools that makes lets say wrenches...
Hope you get the idea, I make anything the client wants in terms of industrial production. If you want to produce a pen, you give just the concept of the pen and I will make the entire production process to you to be able to produce that pen, all the machines, tools, assembly line and quality control.
Or just a part of the process, like you already make pens and just have trouble with the injection mould that injects the cap of the pen, I can make you a mould that will be much better in terms of quality and in terms of time.
Even so, I get paid not so much money, around R$5.000 a month (about 1k usd) and with that I cannot live very well, although i can live better than 80% of population (minimum wage is R$1.000 about 200bucks usd), so you can imagine that the majority of the country have trouble just to buy food to eat, it is really sad.
I also was never able to get a job as a real engineer like in the contract saying that, because engineers here have a least amount that they have to be paid, by law, about R$8.000 (1.600$)... So to get away from the law and pay less, they say that you are an analyst, an draftsman...
I live in a shit hole, really really bad place and it costs R$1.200 or 240$, for eat reasonable well and better than 90% of the country I spend around R$1.800 or 360$. That leaves me with less than R$2.000 or 400bucks to go through the entire month, pay the bills like energy, internet, tv and very little amusement, trip for a near city is a luxury that I can plan and have at the max once every 3 or 4 months.
My car is an old shitty one, that in the USA for example would not even be accepcted as a gift I think (this one https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Celta or google chevrolet celta 2010).
But again its a fair car around here, since the majority of people struggle to have money to take a bus (very sad my friends!)
Education is non existent, only if you have money to pay private schools. Majority of people around literally have trouble with sum and subtraction, with simple native words. Politics? what is that? the majority of people being ignorant and very poor will vote for any candidate that gives them bread with cheese (literally a true story, very sad).
Walk around the streets at 2AM? If you dont get robbed or rapped by any criminal you will be beat up or be murdered by the police itself. lol
For what I take in countries like the USA you can live reasonable well with a physical labour job, have a nice home, a nice car, kids, education, food and get some amusements.
Here a manual labour is the lowest jobs around, like a roofman or a gardner, it is the jobs left for the ones that can not get a job in a company and usually are very poor fellas, that barely have that to eat or clothes to wear.
Any place sucks if you are broke.
If you are rich you live well in the same place.
Sweden, Brazil, UK, US, France, South-Africa, it's all the same.I'm guessing those are "diverse" neighborhoods?
If you are rich you live in a decent neighbourhood/area, if you are poor, it sucks no matter where you are.
You couldn't believe it back in the 80s, but even Sweden have Ghettos now.
Concrete ghettos of Peace aka No Go Zones where the Police do not enter and avoid like the plague.
I'm guessing those are "diverse" neighborhoods?Indeed
No matter where you live, live is what you make of it.
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Tell that to people in North Korea or the Congo. It's easy for you to talk in your, lily White, crime-free prosperous neighborhood.
I remember my mother, who grew up in a third world country, use to turn on the water faucet and tell me, "You think this is normal? To just turn a knob and have fresh, clean, drinking water served up to you?"
Diarrhea is one of the leading causes of death and disease of children in the world and the vast majority is caused by just not have clean drinking water. Tell them that life is what they make of it as flies cover their entire face.
So many of your posts here make it clear that you have lived such a sheltered and coddled life and are so clueless to the realities of the world which is typical of Liberals.
Tell that to people in North Korea or the Congo. It's easy for you to talk in your, lily White, crime-free prosperous neighborhood.Truth! We are all very fortunate.
I remember my mother, who grew up in a third world country, use to turn on the water faucet and tell me, "You think this is normal? To just turn a knob and have fresh, clean, drinking water served up to you?"
Diarrhea is one of the leading causes of death and disease of children in the world and the vast majority is caused by just not have clean drinking water. Tell them that life is what they make of it as flies cover their entire face.
So many of your posts here make it clear that you have lived such a sheltered and coddled life and are so clueless to the realities of the world which is typical of Liberals.
Truth! We are all very fortunate.
Tell that to people in North Korea or the Congo. It's easy for you to talk in your, lily White, crime-free prosperous neighborhood.That's why it's only going to get worse. I remember when they had cassette players and landline telephones. Most kids in developed countries don't know what "wanting" is.
I remember my mother, who grew up in a third world country, use to turn on the water faucet and tell me, "You think this is normal? To just turn a knob and have fresh, clean, drinking water served up to you?"
Diarrhea is one of the leading causes of death and disease of children in the world and the vast majority is caused by just not have clean drinking water. Tell them that life is what they make of it as flies cover their entire face.
So many of your posts here make it clear that you have lived such a sheltered and coddled life and are so clueless to the realities of the world which is typical of Liberals.
The generational gap has never been more prevalent. From grandparents to grandchildren, it's like going from the stone age to Star Trek.
Imagine the generational gap between great-grandparents and their great-grandchildren. The oldest of my great-children had his 5th birthday last November. He is already a tall lanky fellow who could pass for twice his age.Meltdown.
Presently, there are four generations living in this house. My great-granddaughter is still an infant so there's not much worry about being able to relate to her just yet. Every time she and I are in the same room, she looks and me and breaks out in the huge grin. Guess I must be pretty funny looking to her being as how I am the only person around here with a bald head.
When you are raising your kids, you feel a lot of responsibility for them and how they'll turn out as adults. With grandchildren, it's different because you can spoil them and let their parents deal with the results. Great-grandchildren have two older generations indulging them...hopeless.
I think I am fairly computer savvy until I talk technology with my grandson who getting an education, preparing for work in cyber security. This is a field of employment, I didn't even think about before he got interested in it.
Meltdown.
Meltdown.