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1. Fabio Manganiello (blacklight@social.platypush.tech)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 19:11:03 JST Fabio Manganiello

   One Dutch out of four voted for this scum.

   I guess that it's again rural-vs-urban, old-vs-young. More than half of the folks in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Groningen vote again and again for center-left parties, and again we lose to a countryside made of folks who are hostile to anyone who doesn't look like them. The productive centers of our economy and the generation currently at the peak of its productivity have basically lost political representativeness to the countryside and the elderly just because of demographics.

   I'm tired of seeing my generation robbed again and again of its chance to elect a new, better political class. All because bashing the migrant and replacing solutions with scapegoats works well with the old, with the rural and with the uneducated, without requiring any further political skills or acumen. Say that you'll ban the Quran, kick Moroccans out of the country and make it hard even for EU migrants to come in, and who cares if you don't have a clue of how to tackle climate change, solve the housing crisis or the labour shortage. Angry people want scapegoats, not solutions.

   I guess that the time has come for me to look at new destinations outside of here. This country deserves to lose all the skilled migrants that built its fortune, as well as all the less skilled migrants that make sure that keep things running.

   I refuse to be amicable to anybody who gave their vote to #Wilders. I refuse to be amicable to someone who sees me as a series B citizen only because I wasn't born here. Me and those who vote for this scum don't even belong to the same species anymore.

   https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/11/far-right-pvv-is-clear-winner-in-dutch-election-with-25-support/

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 19:10:58 JST Aral Balkan

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     @blacklight I’m so sorry. But as someone who left the UK when Brexit even became a possibility, I’m not sure anywhere is perfect and I get the feeling we’re all going to have to make a stand somewhere at some point.

     That said, if you end up considering Ireland just let me know if I can help in any way.

   • L0wKey (l0wkey@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 22:24:05 JST L0wKey

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral @blacklight

     Me and mine are also trying to flee Brexit Island but found it impossible to secure housing in Ireland. Not defeated, but certainly licking wounds at the moment.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 22:24:05 JST Aral Balkan

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     • L0wKey

     @L0wKey @blacklight It’s really bad.

     Your best bet, if you can, is to buy. There is no rental market to speak of (unless you want to go with one of the really high-priced corporate landlords in Dublin. To be fair, they’re also the only ones you’d be guaranteed any length of occupancy with as long as you keep paying them. With private landlords, if you can find one, you could be out on your tush at any time).

     If I can help in any way do let me know.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 22:25:41 JST Aral Balkan

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     @blacklight Yeah, but you’re also used to having tenant’s rights.

   • Fabio Manganiello (blacklight@social.platypush.tech)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 22:25:42 JST Fabio Manganiello

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral Ireland sounds like an interesting option - especially for those of us in the NL who are already used to wind and rain 😁

   • L0wKey (l0wkey@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 22:56:25 JST L0wKey

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral @blacklight

     We were looking to buy but without employment it would be cash only which obviously put a ceiling on affordability. Anything we looked at was gone in hours (or uninhabitable) - we came over twice to view and literally while travelling 80% of the properties we were to see had gone.

     UK financial turmoil has meant the whole endeavour is now unaffordable in the short term so it’ll be a couple of years before we can try again I’d guess.

     Hope delayed but not dead (yet)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 22:56:25 JST Aral Balkan

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     • L0wKey

     @L0wKey @blacklight I hear you.

     Due to the interest rate hikes (likely) it does seem like things have slowed down a bit. House we’re buying in Bray was on for several months, went sale agreed, buyer pulled out, and now we’re about to close (it’s nothing to write home about but the location is good and it’s not crumbling and has a decent energy rating so that’s actually pretty good by Irish standards. And I won’t mention the purple kitchen cabinets… 👀)