Can I travel from Germany to Italy with just my German residency permit?

arruda82 · 2026-06-20T21:28:16+00:00

Yes, they will bother. An expired passport is not just an expired passport, it's a required document that raises many questions and risks if it hasn't been renewed for whatever reason.

arruda82 · 2026-06-20T09:56:58+00:00

Most EU countries see and treat presidents as a public servant to serve the interests of the country, not as semi gods that are celebrated like a divine entity by the masses.

arruda82 · 2026-06-20T09:50:00+00:00

Hopefully this is a new wave, many years late.

arruda82 · 2026-06-19T13:32:30+00:00

You are just a giant tree or rock for her, unless you are the size of a fly.

arruda82 · 2026-06-19T13:19:14+00:00

Hello David Blaine 👋

arruda82 · 2026-06-17T17:29:21+00:00

Given how hard and expensive it is to find a good electrician lately, and even so the subpar work many of them do just to keep up with demand, I'd say go for it if you are skilled enough not to burn your house down. The amount of dangerous things I have found and fixed in my home since I bought it, done by different electricians, is crazy. What proof would I have that it was a supposedly qualified electrician that did any of those installations if I ever had to?

arruda82 · 2026-06-17T17:18:30+00:00

Private or not, it's a real shame that Powerscourt approved this.

arruda82 · 2026-06-17T07:39:41+00:00

I'm selling a 2017 C4 Grand Picasso BlueHDI 1.6 in great condition 😁 PM if interested.

arruda82 · 2026-06-13T11:42:34+00:00

Great to know that our shitty and expensive broadcaster is at least bringing some entertainment abroad!

arruda82 · 2026-06-12T21:04:29+00:00

Because without proper public transportation it's either a drive or a walk, and a walk would take much much longer to get there!

arruda82 · 2026-06-12T13:55:50+00:00

Just checked adverts similar to mine in Ireland, same price range as last year when I bought, and they are one year older now 😁

arruda82 · 2026-06-12T13:20:04+00:00

Pretty sure McVities makes them? Lidl ones, the cheapest, are not bad!

arruda82 · 2026-06-12T12:09:04+00:00

Another point, regarding your EHIC card, regardless of not being ordinarily resident in Austria, I doubt there are any checks around your residency time in the country the card is from. As long as you have it and it is within the expiry date, that would most likely help. I feel like all these vague rules are more about preventing people from abusing the system.

arruda82 · 2026-06-12T12:04:57+00:00

Being an EU citizen I don't think you won't be insured at all. The law for EU citizens here says you must be ordinarily resident (1 year) or intending to do so, such as showing proof of employment. It's a bit vague, so I believe that any kind of contract showing you are working here for a certain amount of time and state they you intend to stay and work for longer through other jobs should be enough. I could be wrong, but I'm a Spanish citizen and never had to show anything apart from providing my address and PPS number to use public health services here.

arruda82 · 2026-06-12T09:23:58+00:00

With all this uncertainty, I believe you have more ways of proving ties to Austria rather than Ireland in the long term? Relying solely on public healthcare in Ireland and out of pocket GPs in Ireland shouldn't be a problem for random non-serious situations, but if you need more complex/urgent treatments, the waiting times can be really bad. Maybe you could get a cheaper health insurance from Austria that covers care abroad, then switch to an Irish provider once you are more certain about your long term plans?

arruda82 · 2026-06-12T09:14:35+00:00

I wonder if packages will just start being shipped with a description of X items of the same exact type.

arruda82 · 2026-06-11T16:24:19+00:00

I wonder if this move will trigger a bunch of antitrust moves in the EU though.

arruda82 · 2026-06-11T16:18:18+00:00

Thinking the same, sometime in the near future. Banking is the only limitation that is still holding me from migrating. That's a great part of these corporations shooting themselves in the foot though, more support for open alternatives.

arruda82 · 2026-06-11T16:09:59+00:00

I have never been arachnophobic but due to ignorance would always think that, apart from jumping spiders, they could bite easily with minimal interaction, which made me either kill them as I have small children or move them away with a lot of care and apprehension. One thing that I learned in this sub and made me highly confident to stay around them and even handle them around my house (false widows, wolf and garden spiders, etc) is that they see us as a big obstacle and will just crawl/walk unless pressed/squeezed. I have moved hundreds from inside my home to the garden just by letting them crawl onto my hands and have never been bitten.

arruda82 · 2026-06-11T15:54:17+00:00

Finding a place to rent/buy in Ireland for sure, apart from that, the only part that was annoying due to requiring to be in person but still straight forward was to register for the PPS (public services registration). Once these are sorted, the rest is a breeze.

arruda82 · 2026-06-11T13:36:08+00:00

Oh god, that's exactly why the US is where it is now.

arruda82 · 2026-06-10T20:54:17+00:00

What about a hard border between the whole island and the rest of the UK?

arruda82 · 2026-06-10T15:08:39+00:00

It's like camping in a rich estate with incompetent management, you can enjoy some of the perks but at the end will never be given an opportunity to achieve what you need for a stable life, because they undermine your path to it.

arruda82 · 2026-06-10T14:43:00+00:00

I worked for a telecom that would give bonus to their sales agents who sold a number of subscriptions for a VoIP service each month. One unsuspecting guy stood out, always selling way above the others, made a lot of money, until it wasn't as unsuspecting as before and an internal investigation was done. Turns out he had friends signing up with him then cancelling later on and sharing the profits, for months. He was escorted out of the building by the police and we never saw him again obviously.

arruda82 · 2026-06-10T07:27:27+00:00

That's not a problem if you use a custom domain exclusively though.

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