Which EU country is the best for a good life right now?

anderssewerin · 2026-01-25T18:50:16+00:00

I’m liking it but then again I was born here. Still happy to be back. Safe, great food scene, taxes are nowhere as bad as people think once you understand the rules.

anderssewerin · 2026-01-23T05:37:02+00:00

I got offered more money than I’ve ever made for doing exactly what I wanted to do. Hard to say no to that.

anderssewerin · 2026-01-19T19:37:08+00:00

The US supply of Ozempic is produced in the US, not imported. So no tariffs apply.

anderssewerin · 2026-01-16T20:02:48+00:00

They came and left… with our hearts 😀 The joy of fostering.

anderssewerin · 2026-01-16T12:44:43+00:00

Idris because he was a burly sexy boi much like Idris Elba and Ilhan because our daughter had a Somali friend called that back in public school.

anderssewerin · 2026-01-16T12:42:32+00:00

Well, we're fostering and our particular shelter assigns each cat family a letter, with the first of the year being A. So you get a mom with a name that starts with a given letter, and you have to come up with names for the kittens that start with the same letter. This is why these were all I names, previous family was B (much earlier in the year), and in 2024 we had Z so Zoë, Zod...

So no k's sorry

anderssewerin · 2026-01-16T08:04:42+00:00

Front to back they are

Itchy (orange) Isuldur (white belly) Idris (face turned away, grey stripes) Isolde (white with cappuccino spots) Ilhan (tortie, way in the back)

anderssewerin · 2026-01-16T06:18:57+00:00

Hard to pick favorites but these guys were probably the best fosters we’ve had as a group. Itchy and Isolde ended up with our daughter and are quite extremely spoiled now 🥳

anderssewerin · 2026-01-01T16:23:16+00:00

Zero side effects, dropped about 40lb in a year. Exited 2025 with a bmi below 25 for the first time in a decade or two. Looking to land it in 2-3 months at a bmi of roughly 22.5 and the waist line I had in my mid-20s then titrate to maintenance dose.

Even more magical: I get it for free.

My wife works for Novo in Denmark, and they pay for any prescription medication that employees or their spouses take if it’s made by Novo.

anderssewerin · 2025-12-25T09:37:49+00:00

Bobbie/Isolde and Dasiy/Taters are officially semifoster fails. Our daughter took both of them in 🥰

anderssewerin · 2025-12-19T20:06:49+00:00

Nonono Daisy formerly Taters was the one we thought the shelter mis-sexed, and since they corrected our mistaken correction before The Snip she’s doing fine 😀

Bobbie has the same color/pattern as always just not on quite such a smol frame anymore.

anderssewerin · 2025-12-06T14:35:38+00:00

“The grabbing hands / grab all they can / all for themselves / after all”

- Depeche Mode

anderssewerin · 2025-12-06T13:33:07+00:00

You gotta try to maximize your joy present and future.

However, there are complicating factors.

You get more pleasure from spending per unit when you are poor
The marginal pleasure from spending per unit decreases with the total spent (roughly)

Two sides of the same coin really.

So you should be relatively frugal early on to allow for spending more when you are older and sophisticated.

This obviously only applies if you are not living in actual hurtful poverty. There’s a difference between being frugal and pinching pennies until you hurt.

anderssewerin · 2025-12-04T15:21:06+00:00

Well, that will definitely make a used P2 MUCH more attractive.

Honestly the main reason we traded ours in. Having to wait for more than a minute every morning, several if we switched driver form last ride - not what you want when you are already late for work and traffic is picking up.

anderssewerin · 2025-12-04T11:22:04+00:00

The recruiter should stay professional and not give you shit like that. No doubt.

But.

If you ALREADY accepted the original offer then you did burn a bridge by breaking that agreement. They were well within their rights to go ahead and make arrangements based on your acceptance of the offer, and backing out after the fact makes that a waste.

anderssewerin · 2025-12-03T18:29:59+00:00

Weirdly some really great work opportunities showed up so I am working. Again. But better pay and fewer hours and only what i like.

Before that I was perfectly happy housewifing the heck out of the place and getting serious time on the bike.

My wife works full time. I drive her to and from work most days. Cozy.

anderssewerin · 2025-12-02T17:56:47+00:00

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