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    When I was looking for a home in The Netherlands some years back I had to register to raffles just for the visiting. 2 years of searching brought me absolutely nothing. And that was for renting. Couldn’t even begin to think about buying a house without tens of thousands of euro’s out of my own pocket or getting outbid by ASML by 70k.

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      100% this, I still live in a student dorm because I have nowhere to go with normal rent. A small studio/apartment is like €1300, it’s crazy. My parents got a mortgage for less, it seems more necessary by the day to just leave the country.

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    This one hits real close to home… Trying to look for housing in Germany is like applying for a job, you’re literally competing with a dozen other applicants at all times and you just have to keep rolling the dice again and again on new offers until you get lucky…it’s fucking exhausting.

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    This is such a bummer, Germany just keeps getting worse and worse…

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      I expect that Europe as a whole is now headed for some very dark times. The economy is already in a terrible shape. Meanwhile, the EU is actively trying to start a trade war with China while also trying to increase military production which will necessarily come at the expense of living standards. I really don’t see a way out for Europe at this point.

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        Yeah, after looking at everything that has been going on I’ve basically crossed off every EU country that was a potential study abroad candidate for me. No way in hell am I going to subject myself to a country that is mimicking the same problems that exist here (inflation and stupidly high utilities, plus the Nazi thing too). My heart goes out to our EU comrades, I don’t know how they’re able to deal with this.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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          I really think that the only way forward is for EU to break up, and then countries can start joining BRICS or doing their own thing. In particular, I expect that Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia are the most likely candidates to join BRICS in the coming decade. Perhaps Greece as well as they’ve been fucked by the EU repeatedly.

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    This is such a bummer, Germany just keeps getting worse and worse…