• motruck@lemmy.zip
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          2 days ago

          I thought spain made you wait 10 years for residency. Or ate you of latin descent?

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            No, normally you get permanent residency after 5 years, however they’ve been allowing people to get residencies far faster than before since it helps the economy.

            Also, no we’re not of any Latino descent, but we do think that would give you some sort of instant residency, but that’s dependent on your country of origin, not of lineage (USA isn’t included.)

            Honestly, if anyone is really wanting to move here, you can get a student visa with a uni or college if you already know Spanish or move for a job or move on a digital nomad visa. All will let you legally be here and while the immigration stuff is complicated; it’s pretty worth it.

            Idk if we mentioned before but we moved on a student visa to a language school and if you have the money that’s the best way in.

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      3 days ago

      In what ways are you doing better? Of course can make some good guesses, but want to hear more specifically

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        So United States we had to struggle to make bare necessities especially since we have severe allergies and had to buy more pricey foods. So while rent was high, can’t drive so we rode a bike on roads and couldn’t get insurance. We saved every cent we could for savings towards moving and medicine.

        Now instead of eating only two small meals a day to make by we’re eating a healthy amount and while our specialized food is still pricey it’s way more affordable (holy shit 1 week of groceries is 20€?!) rent is reasonably affordable (our first place was 400/m all utilities inc, now in a new place with our partner for 150/ all utilities inc) we can easily take public transit, walk and bike anywhere we want to. There’s social services to help with almost everything we need help with. And we can do it while living off art commissions :>

        So we’re living better while being able to support ourselves with our dream job.

        We’re really lucky and work hard for what we care about and are in a place that rewards that so guess that is the TLDR lol