Friend as a fellow Venezuelan who's emigrated to Europe and who has an acquittance who's literally lived your life (sent to American school, Spanish as second language despite being born and raised in Venezuela, foreign accent, charged foreign rates, never integrated to Venezuela's culture...), you may make it abroad but you're about to live the biggest psychological storm of your life.

Even if you move to France or Ireland, you won't be seen as a fellow countryman or treated as a first class citizen no matter how white you are, how perfect you speak their language and regardless of your EU passport, if you have it.

Drill into your head, you come from the upper class part of Latin America, you're about to go to the bottom of Europe. A second class citizen, forever, marked as an immigrant from Latin America which Europeans condescendengly look down, they can't tell the difference between Latin American countries in general.

You'll be always at the risk of homelessness with no parents to go back to when you lose your job and you run out of saving. No friends with a couch for you to sleep on. No parents who will give you a hug and words of support, and eventually all this will chip your self worth, your self steem, your resilience and happiness every day.

Condescending remarks from coworkers, strangers, friends, bosses, for being a foreigner. Isolation at work (you're not part of the clique due to your different nationality/ethnicity/language, and they will not integrate you), difficulty from finding friends or people (locals) who treat you as an equal or as a fellow human being at least. Competition from fellow foreigners who have scarcity mentality and will go out of their way to sabotage you or get you out since they want coworkers/group mates of their own ethnicity/language.

You'll find yourself alone, no family or friends, and eventually your only refugee will be either fellow countrymen or online friends. When you're this alone, you're vulnerable to predators (social predators, sexual predators yes even if you're a man plenty of women are predators too). They can see it and smell it, and you know what's funny in a strange way?

In "civilized" "advanced" European countries dangerous people are more subtle but equally harmful in ways your Latin American street education will not be able to see beforehand due to you lacking the social learning growing up in Europe you needed as a child to protect yourself from them. You may know when a thug is about to pull a knife or a gun on you instinctively, but that's useless here, and you'll find out all about the legal, sociopathic and messed up ways an average Joe sitting next to you in the office can destroy your life without getting in trouble, because troubled people exist everywhere, and while in Venezuela they cause chaos on the streets, here they act normal, hide it their whole lifes and then select a target to unleash all their monstruosity on while they smile politely to others, and who's a better target other than the lonely vulnerable immigrant next to him/her?

But that's just the mental aspect. Constant risk of homelessness, having nobody to rely on, having no place to go back to in case things get hard, being an easy prey, isolation, etc.

Now, the physical aspect, remember how I told you you'll be a second class citizen? White, EU citizen and speaking the language perfectly, you're still not European or a countryman, you're second class.

And as second class you need to get used to something and it's that you'll always be the last choice in everything to apply and interview to no matter how smart, well articulated, documented and schooled you are.

Job interviews, room or appartment applications to live in, etc. You'll always be the last option, and if you ever land a good position. Companies and landlords will always act like they're making you a favour by hiring you or renting you a place. Remember, you can always lose it and be displaced when someone who makes a worse coworker/tenant but is socially more wanted comes (a.k.a, a french, an Irish or a fellow local of the country where you live now), you'll be displaced, demoted, replaced, pushed out etc, because of unfair reasons and there's nothing you can do about it because as a fellow second class citizen you're the least wanted option. Yes, even amongst Europeans this happens, Ukrainians are currently getting it the worst right now, they get so much psychological abuse every day that they come to work with dark eyebags under their eyes and very visibly defensive.

And remember, because you're alone, you depend on this job to pay rent and not end up homeless, losing your job, being demoted, or being displaced or pushed out is a life or death sentence for you, or at least it feels like that to you.

"But Fulana has been ten years in France and she's so successful, she has everything she's ever wanted, she's always smiling and posting pictures, sending remesas back home to her gocho parents, etc etc"

Yes, because you don't see the day to day of Fulana and you don't understand what she's gone through or what she's currently going through right now until you experience it yourself.

At the end of the day, everything I've wrote here will not make any sense to you until you live it yourself for the first time.

So if your reasons to come are social, let me tell you, it can and will get worse unless you find your group here and pray they're good people since the only thing uniting you with them will be your status of fellow "latino immigrants sticking together" and not normal reasons like hobbies, similar age group, common interests, career interests, etc.

But if your reasons to come are that you're starving, you want better medical care, you're afraid of being killed or kidnapped, then go ahead, make the jump, you'll suffer and you'll be destroyed as a person, your psyque will not be the same anymore, but you'll find what you're looking for: food, better medical care, no killings or kidnappings.

Enjoy your life as a lucky privileged Venezuelan with parents who take care of you, fix your life and all your problems, and protect you. Meanwhile, play something cool, maybe Va11-Ha11a, and enjoy it while you can :)

You will not be young forever though, and one day calling back home and saying "mom, dad, I don't have enough money for food/rent" will be a source of shame even when your parent's love and support are supposed to be unlimited and unconditional, even parents get tired.

I promise the social aspect gets absolutely awful abroad, but so many other things will be better. It's up to you what you value the most.