(October 7, 2013 at 9:26 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: Now envy me for my goverment bitches!
I've been trying to convince my husband we need to move to Finland for years... Germany has made the list of countries I'd move to. I got totally bitch-slapped (figuratively) by a German hotel worker when we were visiting Berlin in 2003, right after the US invasion of Iraq. The hotel had everyone put their national flag on their breakfast table, but I swapped ours with a Canadian flag out of the shame of being an American. I discovered Germans take the whole nationality thing a wee bit further than we do... I explained that I was ashamed that we were attacking a country on false pretenses, didn't make a bit of difference to the hotel guy. He told me I was an American and I should be proud of that... but I'm really kinda not.
But I recently discovered that if I get a nursing degree, I can move to Denmark. Nurses are on their "positive list," they need more nurses, and the government will aid in immigration if you are one. Plan: Get my degree, learn Danish, get Danish certification, get Danish job, BOOM! I'm an ex-pat. I'd be SO happy :-)
Of course this isn't going to happen, but a girl can dream, right? I'll dream my dreams of sane governments, socialized safety nets, majority non-religious populations, strong unions... le sigh... Husband says we've got to change the US from inside, don't give up hope and all that... Bah! I'm too much a realist for that. IF they're lucky, maybe my kids will see some real changes... Maybe... and that's waffling...
I'm going to see how much the Danish version of Rosetta Stone costs...
