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I'm a European under 50 :) I agree it's not common, but not unheard of.

(Not the OP) Is that so surprising? My wife and I waited until marriage.

As incompetently as the government is handling it, I suspect it won't be too bad in the end.

Ok, it sounds like you've thought things through and best of luck with it.

Haha! Oh right. I'm an immigrant in the UK myself. Curious as to why the natives would leave :)

Sucks for your situation. One question though (I'm sure you've heard before)...

> For her to move to the UK requires her to meet income requirements of £18,600 per year

What about if you got married?

> I’m in the UK, intending to move out for obvious reasons

I thought you meant pay by this, but then you include Berlin in your list of potential places... Is there other reasons I'm missing out on? Genuinely curious

> If you add up random costs you are confronted with during the whole process of flying with them they aren't even that much cheaper.

I'm sorry but that is nonsense. I live abroad so am a frequent flyer back (say 5 or 6 times a year at regular intervals) home, for the past 5 years. I always compare the prices, never once have a rival airline beaten Ryanair. I've never had a bad issue either.

Personally as a 6ft 2 guy I love that they don't have seats which can recline :) the bane of my life on other airlines.

How long until they abandon this one?

It's like that old Vulcan proverb "Only Nixon could go to China."

It's the Guardian. They have a serious axe to grind with SV/tech in general. Their bias in this area is laughable but gotta play to the home crowd I guess.

> filthy 'kitchens'

Where are you getting that from? I know lots of people who've worked there and the stories of the over-the-top cleaning were constant from all.

I doubt anyone has ever based a decision to go to 'Spoons on what they saw on social media.

There's some interesting reading around this that essentially the Saudi's financed Pakistan's nukes in a deal where they can effectively get them under their control in no time should Iran develop one. Contracted out the development in a way :)

You should come to work in Europe/the Uk then. Being a Christian/religious is most definitely to be the odd one out and invite "comments".

The idea of "take home tests" for an interview is utterly bizarre to me. Thankfully I've never heard of it my parts, seems to be a mainly US thing?

> Also, contact your local EU parliament member and politely explain why this is good...

The constituency I last voted in has 3 MEPs for a population of 900,000... I'd be amazed to ever see them, let alone hear back from them.

> see, those are the exact sort of questions, and answers, that you are prepared to provide. and you're probably pretty good at it!

Thank you, but it really has been a recent thing for me. It's only in the past year that I actually worked out what this all means, passive versus active investments, pensions etc.

> i am going to pay an actual human being to give me a list of options

I totally understand that but do me a favour. Before you pay anyone or start down that route, watch this playlist - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_chiIIxMGl0&list=PLXy71rkGuC...

It was accidentally stumbling across that which led to me getting my stuff together. At the very least it should give you a grounding in what to read up so as not to be blindsighted by any financial advice you may get in the future from a professional.

> instead of shrinking. if that's too much to ask, i'll just keep my money under a mattress, thanks.

Inflation is always eating away at your money there, no matter how thick your mattress is ;)

What did you invest in? If a 1.2% swing (over how long of a period?) spooked you then you probably want a heavy bond to equity fund/balance.

The Guardian and tax avoidence goes hand in hand. The Guardian Media Group is based in the Cayman Islands and notably used the tax haven to avoid paying any tax on the £302 million in profit it realised from the sale of Auto Trader in 2008.

It's funny. Years ago I wanted to move to the US, but I hadn't a chance. I have a degree and masters and years work but beyond getting an American company to sponsor me, no joy. I've moved on now. But I have a friend (again degree and masters) who enters for the Green Card lottery every year, he has no chance. I keep hearing yanks saying that immigration is a problem and I'm wondering why it's so hard for us!

Well, I pay significantly more on my insurance purely because I'm a man.

And in true Google style I expect them to slowly ignore it and then drop the program, leaving anyone who invested in it high and dry.

> If you choose to have your hand cut off because you think it would be awesome,

Does that cut mustard? Why not?

But what about trans-abled people and their rights?

I've encountered something similar. Basically two roles were open and I was on the interviewing team. We were told at the start that one of the roles would be for a woman. We got two CVs from women, and about 45 or so from guys. Not fair really but what can you do. It'd be insanity to challenge that, so just keep your head down and nod along.