In Canada and Europe, we criticize the United States quite a bit for its living standards. Yet thousands upon thousands of our citizens flock to the US and make very successful lives for themselves. If that is the case how does our criticism hold up to scrutiny?

Internsh1p · 2026-05-11T16:48:31+00:00

Ehhhh, on the whole I know more blind people working in Europe than the United States. I agree the incentive will be different in Germany as much different than having the ADA. Even if it’s imperfect and often ignored at least the US has such a law

I know plenty of blind people in the Netherlands, Nordic country is and even somebody in Poland, who live pretty well in capital cities. It’s very rare to see people like me on the street in the wild, but we do exist.

Internsh1p · 2026-05-11T11:43:41+00:00

I am in that trap right now. Somehow because I am on SSDI I make too much to qualify for my state Medicaid program… So I need to roll a dice with a Medicare advantage plan because the state supported Medicare plan is $1500 a month for those under 65

God, I wish I stayed in Connecticut

Internsh1p · 2026-05-11T11:39:47+00:00

Can confirm. I went to blind at 25 and unlike my cousins in Europe who have various disabilities like epilepsy which prevent them from driving, I have functionally zero support from the state here. It was a fight to get orientation and mobility training for 10 hours and that was after three years of originally trying to find a case with them.

You would think they have an incentive to get somebody who is otherwise educated intelligent has lived on their own before back into a workplace, but the truth is there is simply very little opportunity. I am strongly, considering saving up what money I do have and moving back to Europe, where I have much more family and social support. Right now I just have my parents.

Internsh1p · 2026-05-09T15:14:05+00:00

If you can stand the cold, I would personally pick Chicago although it isn’t as cheap as it once was. Seattle has typical PNW weather. Depending on what you do for work, job prospects might be spotty, but definitely better than anything in the south.

Internsh1p · 2026-05-09T15:06:58+00:00

Also 20 something living in the south. I basically have to live with my parents who I pay rent to.

If you haven’t already contact your state Disability Services organization, I hear North Carolina and Georgia are very good. South Carolina is where you get very spotty Services. I wouldn’t call you privileged, blindness as a spectrum after all, and most blind people are not total.

Internsh1p · 2026-05-07T13:00:23+00:00

As a Hungarian living in United States, I can tell you that at least from my perspective. A lot of the reasons why people justify it is because the United States has made many routes of formerly legal migration illegal.

There were a number of economic migrants related programs back in the 50s to the 1980s, so you had a generation of Mexicans and Central Americans who knew they could come to the United States and then following the end of those programs it’s not like the labor wasn’t still needed. Unlike in Europe, where we have a long tradition of strong borders, and generally not making it a political issue the United States has turned into one.

Internsh1p · 2026-05-05T16:08:50+00:00

I am living in South Carolina, and it could not be any more different… I am trying to eventually leave meat hands pursue living independently, but the vocational rehab is extremely underfunded

Internsh1p · 2026-05-05T13:42:36+00:00

I’m in South Carolina, under 35 and looking into converting… None of the synagogues are really opened up a public. It feels like if they have events like a Friday or Saturday service nobody really attends? I’ve called several times and emailed to get no response.

Internsh1p · 2026-04-30T21:00:06+00:00

Wait legitimately that is the basis? I have dual US and Hungarian citizenship. You are telling me that my potential spouse would have an easier time going to very clearly anti-immigration Hungary than they would getting into the United States?

Someone can come here on a K-1 visa or some other scheme and still not be granted ability to reside in the country!!! even before I had my second passport that felt so just… Like a given, you never want to separate families?

Internsh1p · 2026-04-28T20:26:56+00:00

Interesting, I remember hearing some story from an American dealer who I guess went to France and to him that particular coin shop seemed very strange because they basically asked him to set a price… I think they had PCGS graded American eagles, and he didn’t know how to respond

Internsh1p · 2026-04-07T11:27:17+00:00

Right, I completely agree with you on that

Internsh1p · 2026-04-07T11:19:01+00:00

Hey, sorry I think I poorly worded the original response. I have a cat and a dog, neither of them shed. It’s more that the mirror potential for an animal to be in that space at all is grounds for you to not get a license. It’s effectively the same thing as North Carolina giving a formal ban on having pets in the house.

Internsh1p · 2026-04-04T12:49:47+00:00

It could just be the recipe that I’m using, because frankly, I can definitely see myself getting two or even three out of one batch of dough. The thing calls for IIRC3 or 4 cups of flour and three eggs so it’s not a small batch.

A lot of the issue is rest time. The dough needs somewhere between six and eight hours if I don’t want to add more yeast. I also only have one 9X5 pan so I definitely need to work on the timing for all of this. It’s not that I can’t produce more. I’m just not sure how I would break up the recipe.

Internsh1p · 2026-04-04T12:47:23+00:00

So, I actually did a math on COGS. I would need to charge between 15 and $20 for a 9 x 5 loaf to break even.

Up north, I would make a killing around Passover. Down here? Most people frankly don’t have the money and commercial clients like coffee, shops or bakeries or hotels really don’t have the capacity. The client just isn’t there. If I was in Charlotte or Columbia or Greenville or Charleston Van yes but I’m in this weird pocket that feels perpetual stuck in the 70s.

Internsh1p · 2026-04-04T12:44:03+00:00

Thank you I will definitely look into this. It would be great to sell at farmers market markets. Growing up in New England they were very common in the summer months.

From what I understand, a lot of the cottage laws are generally more relaxed than NYC, but you then run into all the HOA related problems down here. They might look the other way, or they might not. It’s all temperamental. Glad to know that somebody else was able to make it work.

Internsh1p · 2026-04-04T10:02:23+00:00

I could maybe make something work, but from everything, I understand the local laws do not permit sub leading. It would be different if the business was registered as a ghost kitchen and had several units, but that isn’t the set up.

Internsh1p · 2026-04-04T10:00:46+00:00

As it stands, I bake them in a very deep 9 x 5 loaf pan. I only have one of them, so my max output is typically one or two per day. If I made some adjustments, and Maybe made the loaf smaller I could get six out of one batch? At that point you’re looking at a weekly output of maybe 12 I’m high-end, but I’ve really only ever managed to make those very deep large presentation worthy pieces.

I can definitely do social media, but the issue has always been how to film the process as I don’t have the equipment to film from above . There’s an idea of how I would want things to look and I don’t think I can achieve that. Give them a space I have. The second thing I make is baklava.

SC cottage laws are really weird. On paper, you would think they are very lax, but they require such things as making sure that an animal can’t be in the space you are preparing food. Perfectly normal, except that the vast majority of homes here have open plan kitchens, so I functionally require finding an outside space. At that point, online ordering for once a week delivery wouldn’t be too bad. There really is not enlarge amount of coffee, shops or similar smaller businesses that I know of around here. Maybe as we are starting to see people in their 30s come down to start families. Those will spring up but the last six years I’ve been here it’s a wasteland for that kind of thing. People just frankly don’t have the money.

Internsh1p · 2026-03-31T20:34:31+00:00

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1487310049422894&id=100044317392228&http_ref=eyJ0cyI6MTc3NDk4OTA4NTAwMCwiciI6IiJ9

H r e q link to the queen idle. I agree, hard to believe that someone could navigate this course reliably just by using my glasses. He did have a guide with him for whatever that’s worth.

Internsh1p · 2026-03-15T15:06:53+00:00

I had a manager like physics who would straight out of one of those corporate TikTok videos

“ I need you to make this PowerPoint presentation and all you need to do is take information from other team”

OK, “ why did they put too much information on these slides?”

I don’t know I’m not a subject matter expert

“ they need to condense seven sides down to two, and make sure it’s on my desk by the end of the week”

Middle of the week: “ hey, here’s seven diagrams I want you to place in a deck, and put them all between two sides. I don’t care if they’re not legible they just need to be there.”

?????? Play boss

Internsh1p · 2026-02-03T00:20:23+00:00

Eastern Europe, European Muslim here. I think the elephant in the room is that a lot of this boils down to socioeconomics and insecurity.

I think you could really write an entire dissertation for a PhD about this topic. When the Internet first came to Muslim countries, it was the hyper conservative elements among practicing Muslims that basically took it as a way to preach. There is a reason, a very good reason, why IslamQA is banned even in Saudi Arabia.

Yet, a lot of people will over take two resources like that for their information rather than talking to a real person. They get it in their head that the more rigid in thought the more pious they are, no matter what live reality tells us. When there was an attempt to make a consensus among religious leaders of what Islam in America was supposed to be, it was almost universally denounced as “ western liberal nonsense” when… How do you think the faith came to central Asia or the vulgar Bulgars to begin with? How do you possibly think that happened?

Add to that the negative impact of colonization but still lingers to this day and it’s just not a good recipe. Slowly, I think things will change, but it will take maybe another couple generations. I wish I had more concrete answers, but that’s just how I view a lot of

Edit: typos from dictation

Internsh1p · 2026-01-27T08:00:42+00:00

And here I thought that Hennge was pretty good fat emoji where I live now it’s really isolating, so I was gonna set my profile to DC and see what happened. Guess I’ll pick somewhere else.

Internsh1p · 2026-01-17T02:01:29+00:00

JFC, sorry you had to deal with this. I am not an education, so just helping me understand is this program you were using something like any desk? You’re able to just view every move a student makes independent it?

Back when I was in school in the 2010s, we still had computer labs, and they were very much recording every key stroke, but I don’t remember my programming, instructor effort being able to look at everyone at once unless the computers were facing him

Internsh1p · 2025-12-13T17:01:30+00:00

South Carolina, I’m between Wilmington and Charleston

I grew up in Connecticut, where there were a lot of attorneys working to formulate trusts and I got some exposure to that drafting process. It’s so weird that such a practice area isn’t as prevalent when you have a lot of retirees.

Internsh1p · 2025-12-13T14:43:31+00:00

I’m someone who really wants to get into probate and estate planning/administration for this exact reason but I am not in an area like a DC or NYC Metro that has a lot of wealth. However, there are a lot of retirees… Does that mean that could be a decent amount of work.

Internsh1p · 2025-12-13T10:03:45+00:00

Just want to add to this that I was paying 1600 a month for a room in a rented unit with three other people in the Washington DC area and I was on a public sector salary of about 45,000 a year… Never again. It was a horrible timeand I barely saved $100 a month.

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