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[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

May I ask why not? And if I'm not being too intrusive I'd be interested to know which country you do live in (I'm in the us)

Also really weird I never got a notification from your reply

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I live in Canada, my family moved here back when I was still in school. I'd like to move to China one day, but it's unlikely that I'd be able to do that in the foreseeable future. My parents are old and I'm not just going to abandon them to move half way across the world. That's the main thing holding me back. In general, it's not easy to just uproot your whole life and move to a different country to start anew. For example, I find even the language to be a challenge, I've been learning Mandarin for the past two years and I'm still not fluent in it. Getting a job in my field without knowing a language would be unlikely.

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Very interesting thank you for sharing, so I gather that if you could make it work you would but it isn't in the cards right now. I wonder how hard it would be to immigrate there.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It depends a lot on whether you can get a job. If you can, then you can get a work visa and you're fine. A friend of mine lived in China for a decade, and he liked it. We both work in IT, there are a lot of jobs in that area, but also pretty competitive. From what I've read, China's been recently relaxing immigration laws as well and they're looking at creating a program similar to the green card in US. https://www.semafor.com/article/07/23/2024/china-is-considering-a-green-card-scheme-to-attract-more-foreign-scientists

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yo random question but have you ever had hotpot?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have, Sichuan style is my fav.

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had some Chinese friends in college and they took me and some friends to Chinatown in boston for hotpot and it was pretty delicious

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I made a bunch of Chinese friends in university as well, and got exposure to so much good food as a result. :)