Alright now that I shared my awesome new job, I can finally share with you how moving abroad is going.

[ericg@beige.party]

@Gina As a retiree bound for Spain after nearly 2 years of research, this actually seems do-able.

FWIW, the advice I keep getting is emphatically "Learn to speak Spanish as quickly as possible"

[yngmar@social.tchncs.de]

@Gina I think that only exists in virtual reality.

In real life, sunny & coastal places with all those requirements are going to be hyperexpensive and still burning down every third year, have two months of drought alternating with floods or get wiped out by the increasingly angry oceans before they get a chance to sink under them.

You might have to compromise. A lot

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@willi Greece is amazing, were it not that a lot of places feel very bare because all the young and educated people either moved to Athens or abroad. Athens was a vibe but way too big and busy.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@ericg absolutely. I'd learn Catalan as well, if I ended up there.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@yngmar Australia has it

[ericg@beige.party]

@Gina Mind the wealth taxes in Catalunya in case you haven't already looked into that.

[romainbecker@mastodon.opencloud.lu]

@Gina Well, that fits perfectly for #luxembourg !
The coastal part can be arranged, the problem is the 500k house with garden....That's the price tag for a decent 90m2 appartement. But hey, its Luxembourg !

[yashpheh@mstdn.social]

@Gina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFo428N7xec

[photovince@mastodon.social]

@Gina Know thyself

Honestly, if you take the binairy division of the populace in optimizers and satificers I’m mostly of the second category. And, as people are, I tend to be a bit jealous of the others - the optimizers who know what they want and don’t rest until they get it. So, go for it…

[bundyo@bundyo.com]

@yngmar @Gina

Not the only bonus - it is also a bit hard to learn language.

[Gæst]

@Gina Valencia or Málaga tick all the boxes.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@romainbecker the coastal part can be arranged?

[Gæst]

@Gina Ik zou gaan voor Scheveningen

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@yashpheh have you heard of Belgium's taxes?

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@manfredzielinski except that they're big cities where it's hard to find a somewhat affordable house with a garden 🥲 Also Valencia, while beautiful, is insanely humid. Loved Malaga though, but it feels very far away from mainland Europe, where I still have to travel to quite a bit.

[bundyo@bundyo.com]

@Gina

Well, I'm not helping by saying that Sofia ticks all of these.

But also:
- rather smoggy during winter;
- currently has pro-russian government, Radev is like Orban from Temu;
- not very bike friendly;
- the house with the garden won't really be in the town
- coastal is 300km away (closest in Thessaloniki, Burgas is 360km away);
- 2k high inactive volcano bordering the city, but still a mountain.

[marcel@van-der-boom.nl]

@Gina bit worrysome, but first thing i thought; "paste that in a claude session to get some suggestions"

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@lalalasombra the Croatian coast might be one the most beautiful places on earth .

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@marcel I have 🥲 (sorry). Claude really wants me to move to Girona, Bilbao, Trieste or Liguria.

[romainbecker@mastodon.opencloud.lu]

@Gina
We're just waiting that climate change brings the belgian coast next to #arlon .

That's easier than trying to get a 500k house in Luxembourg!

You're welcome.