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nivenkos , vor 24 Tagen

Tariffs make us all poorer in the long run. Did we learn nothing in the 20th century?

nivenkos , vor 24 Tagen

Like a mix between the UK and Germany.

The housing situation is also quite bad, it's near impossible to rent if you move here for work (unless your company acts as a guarantor).

The rent-controlled housing queue system is extremely corrupt and long - at least 8-year queues (unless you're related to the local administration). Taxes are also insanely high on workers - 56+% income tax, 25% VAT.

The currency has collapsed since COVID so wages are far worse relative to Europe than before (and let's not even mention the USA).

It's far from everywhere (you're not going on holiday to Russia these days), with few direct flights, and long delivery times for imports.

But still the transport is quite good, there are a fair number of new apartments if you can buy a leasehold (it has its own issues with high fees and interest rates though), and a lot of online services.

I'd give it a 6/10.

nivenkos , vor 24 Tagen

The coffee and the ice cream are the best things in the country.

nivenkos , vor 29 Tagen

I'm sure rewarding Islamic terrorism will have no dire consequences...

nivenkos , vor einem Monat

Nothing to see here, just a brain surgeon enriching the local population.

Wake up Europe.

nivenkos , vor einem Monat

Wouldn’t surprise me if Russia funded the organisers.

Hardly, Russia is pro-Islam - they've met Hamas and are working with Iran.

They are part of the Islamic Axis of evil.

nivenkos , vor einem Monat

This will continue until Europe resolves the migration crisis, and deals with the growing insecurity and the collapse in living standards.

nivenkos , vor einem Monat

The US is doing great though. It's just Europe getting hammered.

nivenkos , vor einem Monat

This is stupid and unenforceable.

nivenkos , vor 3 Monaten

Europe has donated around ~$150 billion USD (including from member states). That's almost an entire year's EU budget, over 20x the ESA's annual budget (wtf), and over 20x the EU's 6-year contribution to ITER (double wtf).

The money comes from somewhere and Europe is broke.

The US needs to stop shirking their duty, and send the military in. They are making an absolute fortune off LNG and weapons exports, they should take the responsibility to help.

EDIT: Also rich for Poland to complain about this when they are the biggest leech of EU funds in the Union. It's absurd that there are only ~9 net contributors to begin with.

nivenkos , vor 3 Monaten

That 19 trillion isn't spendable money at all though. Learn the difference between GDP and a budget.

We're already at high inflation, high interest rates and little to no growth - the situation is extremely precarious in Europe. We could easily end up like Argentina or Turkey.

nivenkos , vor 3 Monaten

GDP isn't state-owned - we aren't a Communist state (thankfully) - and any attempt to get close to that would destroy the GDP.