She is willing to, but is insisting on doing her spring semester at NYU and then doing a year abroad, already applied for. For her safety, I want her to leave the US after this fall semester ends. Figure out the rest later. We are actually about to leave on a many years in the planning circumnavigation on our boat and she could join us i…
She is willing to, but is insisting on doing her spring semester at NYU and then doing a year abroad, already applied for. For her safety, I want her to leave the US after this fall semester ends. Figure out the rest later. We are actually about to leave on a many years in the planning circumnavigation on our boat and she could join us initially.
The bigger question is, is anywhere going to be safe. I’ve watched the world dictators cozy up to each other this past year, meeting in each of their countries- to include trump in maralago and a right leader in germany. No where will be safe for long if the US goes in the expected direction. North Korea soldiers are lined up on the Ukrainian border.
I planned for many years to be able to go back and forth from Germany to the US. Now, I hardly want to go to the US. The EU feels safer right now. So, you might head there. Here is a list of places that are easy for Ex Pats to go to.
My 19-year old daughter is not worried like I am because I have protected her from understanding more fully what Trump has planned. So, she is living her regular life these past two days. She is sad about Harris' loss. She has learned to vote from abroad. She is in University in Germany and while a friend of hers is studying North American studies so they are all talking about it. My daughter is getting ready to go visit a friend in Vienna over the weekend, and is going to classes (where the US election is not being discussed) and going about her business trying to get her work done before leaving tomorrow morning. I am sure her friends in the US are more panicked.
A friend's daughter just moved to Portugal with her husband Fall of 2023. It took them about 3-4 months to get their permanent Resident status. He is working for a US company digitally. When we went to Portugal in the spring we saw a lot of people from US, England and other countries living there and working on laptops in the cafes.
I do not feel so unsafe in Germany but I am wary. It is different when you live here. Germany has 5 new states (former DDR) and 11 old states (former West Germany). The new states have 15% of the population. In recent German elections in 3 of the new states, the fascist party AfD came in first place with 33% in 2 of these new states, and in second place after the democratic Social Democrats. Still, 33 of less than 15% of the population does not a mandate make. That is even though Germans are dissatisfied with immigration and inflation in general. Although I would say Germans are used to being dissatisfied, it is part of the national character. In the meantime the constitutional court is deciding whether it is legal to have the party at all, because it is illegal to have a political party that is agains tenets of the constitution.
Thank you, Linda. I find your posts very informative and interesting. I lived in Germany for about 6 months in 1970. In Heidelberg. My brother was in the Army stationed in Mannheim. It was a really nice experience.
Hi Sherry, I took classes at the University in Mannheim a long time ago. I was living in Ludwigshafen at the time. A friend of my mom's son was stationed in Trier. I would visit him sometimes.
A former colleague of mine took a teaching job with the DOD and moved her whole family to Germany. Of course the military paid for their entire move. Part was flown and part was shipped and all was packed by the shipping company. She and her Canadian husband who works on tech from home, have 4 children who were all under 6 when they moved 2 falls ago. She moved to Germany because they realized that they could not afford college for their children in the US. She knew my daughter was going to Uni in Germany and that there is no tuition, just fees. My daughter's fee for this semester was 299€. It includes a huge discount on the Germany transportation pass, and discounts for a lot of things.
Where I am living there is no base. My husband grew up in a small Northern German city that had US, British, Dutch and German bases. When the Dutch and US left the area it really affected the economy of their city.
She is willing to, but is insisting on doing her spring semester at NYU and then doing a year abroad, already applied for. For her safety, I want her to leave the US after this fall semester ends. Figure out the rest later. We are actually about to leave on a many years in the planning circumnavigation on our boat and she could join us initially.
The bigger question is, is anywhere going to be safe. I’ve watched the world dictators cozy up to each other this past year, meeting in each of their countries- to include trump in maralago and a right leader in germany. No where will be safe for long if the US goes in the expected direction. North Korea soldiers are lined up on the Ukrainian border.
I planned for many years to be able to go back and forth from Germany to the US. Now, I hardly want to go to the US. The EU feels safer right now. So, you might head there. Here is a list of places that are easy for Ex Pats to go to.
https://fortune.com/2024/11/06/americans-move-abroad-2024-presidential-election/
My 19-year old daughter is not worried like I am because I have protected her from understanding more fully what Trump has planned. So, she is living her regular life these past two days. She is sad about Harris' loss. She has learned to vote from abroad. She is in University in Germany and while a friend of hers is studying North American studies so they are all talking about it. My daughter is getting ready to go visit a friend in Vienna over the weekend, and is going to classes (where the US election is not being discussed) and going about her business trying to get her work done before leaving tomorrow morning. I am sure her friends in the US are more panicked.
A friend's daughter just moved to Portugal with her husband Fall of 2023. It took them about 3-4 months to get their permanent Resident status. He is working for a US company digitally. When we went to Portugal in the spring we saw a lot of people from US, England and other countries living there and working on laptops in the cafes.
I do not feel so unsafe in Germany but I am wary. It is different when you live here. Germany has 5 new states (former DDR) and 11 old states (former West Germany). The new states have 15% of the population. In recent German elections in 3 of the new states, the fascist party AfD came in first place with 33% in 2 of these new states, and in second place after the democratic Social Democrats. Still, 33 of less than 15% of the population does not a mandate make. That is even though Germans are dissatisfied with immigration and inflation in general. Although I would say Germans are used to being dissatisfied, it is part of the national character. In the meantime the constitutional court is deciding whether it is legal to have the party at all, because it is illegal to have a political party that is agains tenets of the constitution.
Thank you, Linda. I find your posts very informative and interesting. I lived in Germany for about 6 months in 1970. In Heidelberg. My brother was in the Army stationed in Mannheim. It was a really nice experience.
Hi Sherry, I took classes at the University in Mannheim a long time ago. I was living in Ludwigshafen at the time. A friend of my mom's son was stationed in Trier. I would visit him sometimes.
A former colleague of mine took a teaching job with the DOD and moved her whole family to Germany. Of course the military paid for their entire move. Part was flown and part was shipped and all was packed by the shipping company. She and her Canadian husband who works on tech from home, have 4 children who were all under 6 when they moved 2 falls ago. She moved to Germany because they realized that they could not afford college for their children in the US. She knew my daughter was going to Uni in Germany and that there is no tuition, just fees. My daughter's fee for this semester was 299€. It includes a huge discount on the Germany transportation pass, and discounts for a lot of things.
Where I am living there is no base. My husband grew up in a small Northern German city that had US, British, Dutch and German bases. When the Dutch and US left the area it really affected the economy of their city.