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[-] [email protected] 23 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Don't get me wrong, I don't ~~Mexico to sell~~ mind Mexico selling chocolate but why are they thinking this is part of their job as government??

[-] [email protected] 98 points 22 hours ago

I don’t Mexico to sell chocolate

Well I do Mexico to sell chocolate.

Comedy aside, I think its to address the extraordinary obesity issues that Mexico has faced in the past 20 years. Mexico is in my top 2 of countries I'm moving to as the US collapses, but they have real issues with refined foods and especially added sugar.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago

What's your other top 2 country? If I go I think I'm going to switch continents. I would prefer there to be a whole ocean between me and this bullshit.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago

Brazil is in the conversations. Mainly for professional reasons and because they do still invest in the kinds of science that my partner and I do, and I have many colleagues there and some family near Rio.

The other is Tahiti, because I've got a pretty substantial Vanilla production operation going at this point, which was kind-of the entire point of why I moved to where I did. I also have access to EU citizenship through my mother, and I as far as a visa to live and work in the country, I think that part should be straight forwards since its basically France. My partner and I also have some connections to the university, University of French Polynesia. My partner has also previously worked for CNRS in Toulouse, although briefly. Buying land might be out of reach because its ridiculously expensive, but I can imagine various ways of making it happen.

We're seriously considering some option at this point, but its very tough because we moved to where we live because this is where we wanted to live. We've also got a wide range of "things" going on that are difficult, but not impossible, to disentangle ourselves from.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Big warning on moving to Brazil for science. Getting lab materials takes forever to get delivered and frequently just never arrives. I had a roommat do her last year of PhD research in the us because work was so much faster here due to how much better and more reliable logistics are.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

I mean thats a great consideration. Luckily for me, I'm more on the pure computation/ analysis side of the house. I don't really do wet chemistry any more, although my partner does.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

Good info. France and Norway are appealing, I have a friend with family over there who likes me. The Netherlands is on my list as well, I've been there a few times and they don't currently have any political drama that I'm aware of.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Oh boy, there is political drama here in the Netherlands right now.

The most right wing party in the coalition stepped out of the government because the other parties refused to sign its "strictest immigration policy ever", so we're heading towards elections again. Meanwhile parliament approved a law making being an illegal resident or helping one a crime. It needs to pass through the senate yet, but still. The minister of agriculture was found by a judge to abuse her power to obstruct freedom of information. There's still no plan to solve the nitrogen pollution crisis, leading to building projects being on hold throughout the country. Against their promise of not drilling for gas in the northern province of Groningen anymore they've allowed it again, leading to more earthquakes. A singer was accused of antisemitism by politicians because he refused to play at a gig that had posters promoting Zionism, which led to him having to flee the country with his family because of death threats. Don't speak out against Israel here either. There were border patrols done by a group of "activists" looking for illegals ("we found no brown people or anyone looking like that" they said), which were small and luckily stopped, but still. Then there are the government cuts in all social sectors, killing all services slowly over the years. Public transport, education, healthcare, municipal services, welfare, it's all going downhill. And while the government still has to pay back thousands of parents it had wrongly accused of daycare fraud, the next screw-up was discovered a few months ago and they now also have to pay thousands of people on welfare for being sick because they had underpaid them for years.

The election campaign is probably gonna be a bunch of screaming matches about immigrants and refugees and name calling again even though there are far more pressing issues going on. It's not as fascist here as it is in the US yet, but that's only because we have a more reasonable electoral system.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Yeah I can't do anything above 22 degrees or below -22 degrees. I mean its right there in the name.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

If you come to europe i hope you didn't vote for one of the genociders.

We don't like your kind

[-] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Yes I know, and you shouldn't. I voted for everyone who was against Trump.

I might just stay here and start building guillotines.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

You'll pay tarrifs for foreign parts but you can easily offset those because of the increasing demand

[-] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Mexico is 25th on this list with 36.1% of its population obese. The US is 13th at 42.9%.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago

Yeah well, Mexico is #1 on this list. I don't even see the US on the list.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

Shit I hadn’t even considered that. Glad I know now

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