• Tencho@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Heart warming. Are they this kind to immigrants? I’ve been thinking about heading that direction for a few years. People keep telling me EU is in decline. But they still seem nicer than the Americas

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      2 hours ago

      People are kind, a state can’t be kind, it just is.

      I’m sure Germans are generally kind of folks but by and large states do not extend social welfare benefits to non-citizens.

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      Well, I’m not quite sure which requirements there are for immigration to Germany, and which conditions there are on getting welfare once you got here. They obviously would like to avoid having people immigrating into the welfare system.

      And of course, Germany isn’t the land where milk and honey flow either, many people struggle too. I had a bit of luck for sure. But I very much feel Germany is a much more forgiving place to live. That’s why I would never move to the US under any circumstances, even for a tripled paycheck.