I keep hoping things will change for the better. I keep voting for things to change for the better. Thing are not, however, changing for the better, and if I am going to be coldly rational about the situation here, I have to seriously consider emigration.
I am fluent in English, approaching fluency in German, and I’m working on Spanish. I never finished college, but I managed to become a highly experienced software engineer anyway, so I can reasonably expect to be employable in many places. I have no criminal record. Assuming I bring my linguistic self-education to fruition, in a few years I would be able to integrate into any of a dozen or so nations as a productive citizen.
There is all of Latin America outside of Brazil, and though some (though surprisingly few) of the governments are still dodgy, their potential for malice is limited by not having the vast resources of the US to act upon it. Of the so-called Anglosphere, there are the two non-insane English-speaking countries, New Zealand and Canada. Then there are Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Spain in Europe. (I suppose that, knowing English and German, learning Dutch would be no great stretch; I can already understand most of the written form of the language.)
So to our friends who live in the aforementioned countries, how hard would it be for someone like me to emigrate to your country and become a citizen? And would you recommend your country as a destination for a somewhat eccentric social democrat like myself?
