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A passport costs 165 dollaroos? Damn. And I thought the 70 Euro we have to pay was excessive.
As a swede in france, you can add the travel cost to Paris, only the embassy there has the biometric machine to do passports...
Also the idiots in sweden thought 5 (yes five) years validity is a good thing.
Venezuelan passport is 220 USD to request it, and 80 USD to pick it. Total is 300 usd
And you can only request it on specific days according to your ID card end number. So Mondays is terminal numbers 0-1, Tuesday 2-3 and so on.
And they only process about 7000 request daily
Working hours are from 8 am to 12 pm or when the total processed is reached
And the website doesn't work most of the time.
And that's without going into the prerequisites
Venezuelan minimum wage is about 2 usd monthly.
Make of that what you will
All hail the glorious socialist revolution on Venezuela, it is working as intended
Damn, that is like satire.
The best part is the process takes like a year to complete so your passport might arrive already expired or best case will expire in 4 years instead of the minimum 5
nah
What the fuck are you talking about
I think they think that by having a passport you can go work in another country and skip out on taxes?
I don't know where they got that idea but it's hella wrong.
I'm correct.
Dementia
which part are you confused about?
I tried to make my answers very simple and concise.
which part don't you understand?
These are your assertions:
Are you an illegal border-running English as a Second Language teacher in Cambodia by any chance?
no, those are not my assertions.
it seems that rather than ask clarifying questions, you've extrapolated false conclusions from a base of assumptive ignorance.
not very helpful.
I hate to break it to you then, you are terrible at communicating what your actual assertions are. Because you made those assertions simple and concise. Whatever you imagined you were saying, you didn't. Hence: what the fuck are you talking about?
Sport, I wasn't putting forth assertions.
I'm spitting facts, you made assumptions based on those facts rather than asking for clarification on the parts you didn't understand or are ignorant about.
now you're pretending that your conclusions based on your assumptions are somehow my assertions.
That's your problem.
If you want to just throw a tantrum, continue.
If you want clarification, ask for clarification.
I'm starting to think you mostly don't know what "assertion" means, which is the sort of literacy I expect from the illegal border-running English teachers I met in Cambodia.
I am asking you for clarification, and have done twice now. What the fuck are you talking about? Even the guy from Florida who asserted he wouldn't sleep with any prostitute over 45kg because they were "basically a man" would understand that question.
"I'm starting to think..."
oh good, drawing incorrect conclusions from false assumptions has worked so well for you so far.
"I am asking you for clarification, and have done twice now"
no you haven't.
If we incorrectly pretend ""What the fuck are you talking about?" is a clarifying question, then I have given you a clarifying answer as many times as you have asked it.
you don't have to be so nervous. If you ask a real question, you will get a real answer.
Damn it! Who let the bot out?!?!
I said it's for internal testing only.
are you confused by the numbers or the words?
both are concise and to the point, in case someone like you happened upon them.
Man the main problem is that most people understand that traveling abroad with a passport is no guarantee of getting a job abroad.
Even if you travel and you have a remote job, there is no guarantee that your cost of living is gonna go down. Countries change.
Also there is the pesky fact that to be able to work as a vacation stay while being inside another country, you usually need a visa.
Try Panama for example. You can work remotely in there, all good. But you will have to pay for everything in cash because you can't use the ATMs up to certain limits of withdrawals.
Try western union? Good, a chunk of your money is just gone, and that's if they don't catch you transferring money to yourself. They are not a Bank.
Try crypto? That's good too, comes with the expected baggage of taking security on yourself, not the bank. And certainly not "easy" true the standard person who never traveled
Even credit cards have limited use as you need to leave a travel warning to the card. Maybe you renew it, maybe not, but after a time suspicious activity starts to pile up from outside your billing country
Pay rent? In cash. Sure there are landlords that will accommodate for that (for a higher price and good luck complaining about anything. To who?) but most will be subject to taxes on the property and to get discounts on those they need to make a digital invoice for you.
Rent is not cheap in there. Food is cheap but it is getting near international prices since a few years ago
And forget about all the luxuries you have in the usa while living in there.
Someone assaults you or you get robbed or into an incident, car crash, your personals stolen? Forget the cops.
Health? All paid. Not cheap and certainly not easily accessible.
Also insurance. If you are identified as an illegal working abroad, policies you got while in the usa may not cover for that.
Transportation is the easiest one but going everywhere with a cabify or Uber is expensive. Rent a car? Sure, also expensive. Buy a cheap car? Sure. You need legal means on the country to do that. Driving license? Hope you legalized and apostilled that too.
You could become a citizen. But if you have 40k ISD to 750k USD to spare, why the hassle? Stay at the USA.
And that's from the top of my head for one country.
And that's without talking about how you're presence there will make everything expensive for the locals over time
So you not only fucking up your life, but others as well
Truly American collectivism in action
did you make a point?
Lol no 🤣
Know
why do you keep saying lower cost of living?
If you go homeless you can also have a lower cost of living.
Contrary to popular belief, if you're dead, the cost of living is zero.
"why do you keep saying lower cost of living?"
because a lot of americans are poor and scared because they are poor.
abroad, they aren't poor and can save money.
yeah but we aren't talking about emmigration, we're talking about passports, passports make travel legal. They don't allow you to emmigrate. (technically they do facilitate it, but you also need a lot of paper work with whatever country you're moving to)
says who? You seem to think money comes from schizophrenia central, rather than like, a company that somebody works at. Or a job that they have, if you're homeless, you would be spending 0 money on cost of living, and therefore have SO MUCH MONEY.
sarcasm, satire even.
If i had the same level of intelligence as you, cost of living.
"yeah but we aren’t talking about emmigration"
There you go! I just have to keep repeating the same thing and knew you'd eventually catch on. Spelling notwithstanding.
'They don’t allow you to emmigrate."
Not what we're talking about, remember there champ?
"but you also need a lot of paper work with whatever country you’re moving to"
Incorrect.
"if you’re homeless, you would be spending 0 money on cost of living, and therefore have SO MUCH MONEY."
What did...that's it.
Sweet summer child, homeless people in america without income make even less than your vaunted capitalists in America, again because the cost of living is so high. Homeless people with an income are not going to be saving any money. Because they don't have an income.
No wonder you thought dead people spend money.
Dude. Book. Read.
You're hopelessly lost.
You can also ask questions, so you stop sounding so ignorant.
Your comments are embarrassing to read.
Stop acting so scared. Ask some real questions. You can learn here.
u post like a schizo bro, did u take ur meds today?
I did.
you really did.
yeah, unlike you.
that's right. i didn't abuse medication like you did.
Why are you proud of your substance abuse?
mine is prescribed, like yours should be.
All the addicts think abuse is "use". Good luck with yer addiction. When everything crashes, i can still help you.
nah, don't even think about it, i want help from people who actually know what they're talking about.
"i want help..."
Sounds like you need help, rather than want it.
But please stop begging me.
everybody needs help, i can recognize that, unlike you.
I just said that.
you really do need help.