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kokopelli
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10 Dec 2024, 6:13 am

Fnord wrote:
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I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would want to move to Russia to find work.
My money is on the idea that the OP was just blowing off steam, and that he is not actually moving to Russia..

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What greater opportunities are there in Russia than in the US?
The greater opportunity to be conscripted into the war against Ukraine and dying in a drone strike.


You might have got it.

I tend to take people at their word and not to see what they say as blowing off steam.


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19 Dec 2024, 2:56 pm

Fnord wrote:
kokopelli wrote:
I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would want to move to Russia to find work.
My money is on the idea that the OP was just blowing off steam, and that he is not actually moving to Russia..

Sigh. The most boomer take ever. I literally told everyone here that America doesn't hire my type anymore.



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21 Dec 2024, 4:25 pm

Uh huh sure you are. Hows the process of getting a visa going?



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Yesterday, 2:47 pm

Russia? Seriously?

Not somewhere I would want to be. Knowing me, I would be Novichucked on a daily basis.


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Yesterday, 3:28 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:
Russia? Seriously?

Not somewhere I would want to be. Knowing me, I would be Novichucked on a daily basis.


Nah, they'd just throw you into the meat grinder so you die as a proud Russian, with Ukrainians to your front and Chechens to your rear.


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Yesterday, 4:56 pm

FWIW, I wouldn't generally recommend moving to a place where there's a mass exodus in process without having a really good reason for it. From what I can tell, there's been about a million Russians that have fled the country since the start of the war in Ukraine and the country doesn't even have enough young people left to press into service to replace the ones the ones that are being killed or going missing in action.

Moving countries to try to find work is always a risky endeavor even under the best of circumstances. A change in your employment status can take with it your permission to be in the country at all, and if you are there with a visa, there's varying rules about the degree to which you can change employers without having to leave the country for a period of time.

For those that haven't ever lived in an authoritarian country, it can be extremely hard to understand just how invasive that can be and even if they aren't outright harassing you and threatening to kick you out, it still gets in your brain that certain things are not to be talked about and certain people are not to be associated with far faster than you might imagine.

I haven't personally been to Russia as there really hasn't been a point in time where it was a great time to go there, but I'd really suggest a certain amount of caution, given that the country's own citizens are fleeing i such large numbers. The country remains in no danger of running out of people, but they have largely exhausted the people that are available for military service and things could get extremely ugly very quickly if Putin loses the support of enough of the oligarchs for a regime change to happen.



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Yesterday, 5:46 pm

MatchboxVagabond: Very well said.


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