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heyo English speakers: you can teach English on or offline to make ends meet(or retire in a few years, if you like teaching or traveling).

check out travel for a bunch of relevant posts. or give me a shout.

tldr: Exchange first, bring less cash.

You can bring that much and generally have to declare bringing in any amount of cash over 10,000 euros into the EU.

I’ve been traveling 15 years and find that currency exchange heavily depends on your currency and local facility of exchange, so:

i have no doubt you’ll be able to find a money changer that can exchange rial and dinar, but since they’re not as popular as other dominant currencies at the moment, it is worth checking prices in your area before you go.

If you can find a place that exchanges under 5% nominal exchange rate, there’s a good likelihood that’s a better exchange rate than you’ll find upon arrival in the EU.

Not sure how much longer people are going to think I’m crazy for living abroad.

Quick reminder that English speakers can retire 30-40 years early if they want to head over to China and teach English for a couple to several years, depending on how many hours you want to work per week. I worked 10 hours a week. That was comfortable for me.

$3-10k USD per month, practically unlimited jobs, no qualifications to start aside from English-speaker, work as much or as little as you like.

For those who wanna skip the business management and other work and get to the not-working part real quick.

Federal agents invading states and extrajudicially executing citizens is a common historical prelude and introduction to civil war.

The moment a US state government fights back on behalf of its own citizens, the US will have entered civil war.

Consistent messaging is key!

The US is in actual national peril, not all “Western” countries.

But yes, I’m excited after living abroad for 15 years for other countries to stop paying so much deference to harmful US policies and consider sensible global alternatives like bidets, gun control and accessible, affordable civil services.

Especially bidets.

really good article with a couple surprises in there.

"some people speculated that, because of the political pressure against it, its release must have been an act of resistance by someone within the IRS. But the open sourcing of the program was always part of the plan, and was required by a law called the SHARE IT Act. It happened “fully above board, which is honestly more of a feat!,” Given told 404 Media. “This has been in the works since last year.”

Vinton told 404 Media in a phone call that the open sourcing of Direct File “is just good government.”

“All code paid for by taxpayer dollars should be open source, available for comment, for feedback, for people to build on and for people in other agencies to replicate. It saves everyone money and it is our [taxpayers’] IP,” she said. “This is just good government and should absolutely be the standard that government technologists are held to.”"