If you’re broke, then the chances of getting out are slim to zero. You could put a plan together to get out in 5-10 years and until that point, you sacrifice everything to get enough money built up and certifiably learn one or two languages.

What I would recommend is if you’re not educated, save money, enroll in a community college, get good grades, maybe try to take some honors/higher level courses that are recognized by 4-year universities, get your AS degree. An AS with advanced/honors courses will put you way forward in going to Europe. It still will not make you completely employable, but you will be way forward. It could be possible, depending on how ambitious you are, to get a 2+ year degree with the AS and meaning that you take extra courses that aren’t requirements for your degree, but higher level, then you have like 2.5-3 years worth of courses and an AS that can’t be taken away, then you enroll in the cheapest 4 year that will take all of your credits and then you have only 2-3 semesters and you may get a scholarship because you were a good student at a community college. Get a BS, then you’re employable at home or elsewhere or at a company that will hire you in the US and place you elsewhere. You can also use the CC time to learn 1-2 other languages, effectively saving money on lessons or the certification tests which are very expensive.

Outside of that, you’ll be competing with every other American doing the same exact thing and running away from something. I agree, the US is a fucking joke now with the costs of living, fleecing of the consumers being hidden under the inflation, safety issues, and people getting progressively stupider because they’re getting their news from tiktok. I don’t agree about the idea that the US is the place to make it because it hasn’t been that way in forever. I think making it in Europe might be easier, depending on what you have, but unless you’re an EU/EEA citizen to start, things are stacked against you.

1. Tel Aviv isn’t bad right now

2. Depending on where the LGBTIQ+ comes from, Tel Aviv might be way safer and inclusive for them.

That you don’t get point two tells me you’re a straight white man speaking for the LGBTIQ+ community.

Tel Aviv

Is there a possibility to make a pause for mental health? If you’re lost, you don’t want to throw your life away for something temporary and solvable- in essence, create a permanent solution for a temporary situation inside of a temporary period of life. During this time, you can seek the help you need.

Look for emergency medical insurance AND emergency return insurance that will bring you back to Italy. I have it, it costs like 100 Euros a year. Any insurance without the emergency return insurance that pays for airlifts back to the country of origin are bullshit. You may need a second policy.

Also get it ASAP because there’s a lockout period before it is valid.

OP: if your department and job are no longer needed, then there’s another company doing that job, either as outsourcing, or as a full service situation that’s competing with your company. Find out who they are ASAP and apply there.

Outside of that, at the same time, consult a lawyer because you may be entitled to some form of compensation. France is very aggressive about employee protections and a shutdown of this scale is not something that happens from one day to the next. True, your department might not have known what the beancounters and higher management were planning, but you launching a compensation claim is nothing personal. It’s just business.

I’m not the OP. Dafuq are you talking to me about this for? They asked a question, I gave a response to them. You seem to think my suggestion to them is them deciding to go to Ireland? Are you ok?

Try Ireland if you want to communicate in English or Sweden or Denmark. This is provided you want to stay in the EU. The thing is everyone has a Master’s in chemistry, so you’ll have to figure out what you can do with it or go further into a PhD.

IMO, the Nordic countries are very, very streamlined, but I give it to Sweden. Way easier than Switzerland to deal with.

Yes, you either keep paying monthly, or you work on a contact change (if you’re off contract it’s very easy) and get the minimum service to keep the number, or you upgrade to a service that allows international calling and roaming. There is a pitfall in the form of you have to verify if they will flag you for using the service excessively out of country. If so, then a way out is to turn off the SIM slot in your phone and use the other SIM if dual, or ust remove the SIM and use it every few months to prevent the account from going dormant.

The code of the American Dream is if you have enough money and/or credit, as well as the ability to fail upwards, to isolate you from the negatives. The issue now with the inflation and gouging hidden under inflation across the board is that you need a crazy amount of money to isolate you from the negatives. This includes daily expenses all the way to medical care, with and without insurance.

The work-life balance in the US has never been good compared to Europe. It was possible, IMO, years ago, but everything is upside down right now there. There was a point where the US was cheaper than Europe. Now Europe is cheaper than the US. How is it possible that daily life in the US is on par or more expensive than living in the most expensive cities in Europe (ie: Switzerland)? And you get nothing back for those prices unlike in Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, etc. It was shocking to me to see certain things in Iceland even cheaper than in the US.

There were previous threads where people expressed why it was so much better for them to bring their families to places like Austria- the kids can actually play, not worry about dying in a shooting, go into the forests and mountains alone and be safe, etc.

A few years ago, things were, IMO a bit better in the US, but Europe has made huge strides to the point that rationalizations to excuse the US don’t work anymore. Basically, the only reason you move to the US is if you’re a far-rightist, you have money, you’re a sovereign citizen, and you’re naive to the pitfalls of the US. In fact, I’m in various groups from diferent countries in Europe where the people are looking to move or have moved to the US. What’s the commonality? Overwhelmingly far-right politics and their top destinations are Texas, Florida, and other far-right states.

OP, how much longer do you have to go before you’re eligible for French citizenship?

Lots of Americans are leaving to settle in Europe due to the concerns you have. You’re not the first to discuss this and there are LOTS of threads, sometimes daily, of why people left the US for Europe and won’t come back: it’s for the kids.

This sounds like those toxic Indian families.

OP: if you’re finding Swedish easier to learn, but you’re not learning it, then you have no shot in another EU country unless you look at Ireland. Not only that, how are you not having an easy time in Sweden on English?

You’re talking about going to another country and trying to integrate, but you’re already in one European country and not learning the language there. Integration means leaning the language.

The other issue that’s becoming very conspicuous are Indians flooding into Europe, but as skilled, educated workers. The problem is they’re all moving to one neighborhood, then spilling over into the next ones and they refuse to mix with the countrypeople and refuse to learn the language. This is causing friction in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, NL, and other countries, despite these people being educated.