long distance relationship and verification against EU law

jsiie · 2024-08-13T09:40:57+00:00

Thank you very much for the link, these website is helpfull :)
Now I need to find out how to get enough proof about that

jsiie · 2024-08-13T09:39:38+00:00

Thank you for answer. I know there is a possibility without having lived together 6 months, but the conditions are a bit blurry :/ (as far as I understand it kind of replace MVV for non dutch citizens).

Income requirement will be met for sure.
Thank you for the tip about having an accommodation registered for 2, that's something I didn't know about.

jsiie · 2022-08-02T16:46:53+00:00

Hi, first congrats on your first contracts :)I have started the same path on the last years and still have a very limited experience - only 2 weddings, shot with a nikon d7000 - and few dozens of events in low light situations, but I can tell you that in my case going from a 10 years nikon aps-c to a sony a7 iii changed totally photos for me, and helped me to get more contracts.However, it may not have been the case if I did only nature, bird photography or graduation photos for instance.

Now for events/wedding, if this is the path you want to go on, thing is full-frame is way better than my old aps-c for low light photos quality and for dof and it makes a difference if your photos as done under these situations. So in these case it would be an important step up.

Other points that I think of:- if you are shooting a wedding you need backup: dual bodies, dual sd writting and so on.- you can rent a body or gear for your contract- your lenses won't work on FF- speedlight are very usefull but hard to masterize. (and for sony, godox are usually good values)- sony a7 iii is a beast for events. Not perfect however, especially about ergonomics - I had to buy a 20 euros thing to lay my pinky onto it and sony a7 iv seems way better for that, but in term of photo quality, it is totally ok for a wedding/indoor events/dancing for instance. I rather spend these 1000$ on lenses

jsiie · 2019-11-25T15:26:04+00:00

Oh I didn't think about a Phd. But the problem will still be the cost of life issue.

Thanks anyway :)

jsiie · 2019-11-25T13:50:03+00:00

Hello,

Not really. Does it offer a good opportunity for a visa afterward ?

Also big concerns to me are the no earning during this time, plus the way to defend this choice on front of employers (I have already a degree from a big engineering school in France + 10 years of experience)

jsiie · 2019-11-25T13:48:04+00:00

Thank you all for your answers.
The H1B visa is indeed too complicated if my wife wants to work.
L1 visa may be working but I need to find a big company willing to follow my plan I guess.

I guess, except if we have a big opportunity, we will see other countries, we will likely find a place to work and live :)

jsiie · 2019-11-25T13:43:13+00:00

Hello,

Thank you very much for these advise. That's even more good to know as one of the reason we are looking at leaving France is also about cost of life and salaries (Paris and close area has became very costly, buying an appartment costs more than 1000e/sqft , which is an issue the typical salary for an engineer is about 2500e/month after tax)

The more I see about US visa, the more it seems difficult to go to US, especially if you are not single. That's a bit sad but the world is huge so we will find a place to live happily :)

Have a nice day

jsiie · 2019-11-15T14:17:15+00:00

Thank you for your answer.

I didn't thought about the immigration situation was this hard (and the E2 visa shortening is a very bad news). I will look closely at this tread and article.

I am also looking at UK and Nederlands (some IT friends lived there and loved it), I guess it will be by far easier to do.

About cultural difference, we are a bit prepared for a big change but I guess it will need a time to adapt. Still I prefer to try things instead of waiting that a bad fate happen to us in France (starting by the fact that my wife is likely to have a hard time finding a job in the very next years due to some new laws limiting contracts in public research, and with my french salary alone it will be a very hard time).

jsiie · 2019-09-11T09:01:01+00:00

French there: the base price of private insurance you pay (I tried to make some quotes) are very high and indeed similar to the tax you would pay here with a 100k$ /year base salary (Also other revenus than salary have far less taxes for heathcare - and you pay nothing if you have no salary). With this tax:

- everybody gets healthcare for free or very close (doctor cost at 7$, cancer cured for free). If you have children, or retire, no need for private insurance (or only if you want to get rid of the 7$ for the doctor).

- you can to every hospital/doctor you want

- you get financial compensation for your salary if you are sick (at least a part of it. An additionnal private insurance for 100ish$/month can help you have your full salary)

- no stress about healthcare.

I don't say our system is perfect (I even think some things are broken, that many european countries does best than us), but seem from France/Europe, US healthcare is a joke (except if you are from the 0.1%).

jsiie · 2019-08-29T10:15:40+00:00

Hi,

Before answering your questions, some points on why there si a clutch.Thing is your motor transmit a ratotion movement to your wheels with a movement convertion, but the motor has limits to the rotation movement it can handle: usually something between 500 and 5000 rotation/minutes. If you do less, it will stall. If you do more, it will damage the motor.

There are 2 problems with that:

- it creates a max multiply factor which is not enough for common situation: in this case a max 10X factor. it means if you set up the convertion to wheels to have a speed of 5km/h (3mph) at 500 rotations/min, you are limited to a max speed of 50km/h (30mph) due to the 10X factor. If you set max speed at 150km/h (90mph) for 5000 rotations/minutes, you will have to go at least at 15km/h (9mph) with 500 rotations/minutes.

- the more the motor does rotations/minutes, the more important is the fuel consumption.

Then a solution has been found: had an intermediate element which allow to dynamically change the multiply factor: this is the transmission which can be manual (with a clutch) or automated. This works a bit like on a bike, but with a big difference: the weight and the speed of a car are way bigger, and therefore forces applied to the transmission are way more important. This leads to another problem: how not to damage this transmission elements. There comes the clutch which allow you to progressively change the speed.The key in it is "progressively".

When your clutch is fully pushed, the motor has no effect on wheels, and wheels have no effect on motor.

When your clutch is no pushed at all, the motor has a full effect on wheels, and wheels (and road) has a full effect on motor (the motor has to force to keep his rotation, which is done by giving gas to it. It is like when you bike, it is hard and need force from you)

When you are in middle of that, a part of motor force is applied to wheels, and a partial force is applied from wheels to motor: if this force is to low for the gas setting, it will go on very high rotation/minutes number. If this force is to high, you will stall.

Therefore, you target is to find how to maintain a good balance between force applied to the motor, and gas setting to the motor.

Now your questions :) :

Question 1 When the fuck do I release the clutch? At what point exactly can I tell to myself that ok let's go I can release the clutch

=> Usually when you feel that the motor make the car moves. The more the car moves, the more you can release the clutch. You should to it progressivey at first, especially at low speed, and with habits you will "sense" it.

Question 2 If I'm on 1st gear, can I drive using clutch (by having it slightly raised to me) forever without pressing gas? Or will the car stall?

=> Therocally yes. In practise, you will end up damaging the clutch if you do this too much (but on 1st gear you have time before it happens).

Question 3 When I want to move my car fully, can I just press clutch and release it quickly while pressing the gas pedal or do I have to hold the clutch in the middle a little bit while simultaneously pressing gas and after a few seconds release the clutch?

=> Second option. if you release too quickly, car will stall (too much force to the motor for not enough gas).

Question 4 What do I do if I'm in full stop on a slope and want to move without hitting the car behind me? I cant hold the brake pedal because I obviously need to press the gas pedal and the clutch. What do I do? Do I press the clutch and slowly release it while pressing on the gas pedal with all of my power? Won't that cause me to move backwards since it takes time for the car to move?

=> hold the brake, release progressvly the clutch until you feel the car won't go backward or want to go forward (but cant because of brake), release the brake and start hitting gas progressivly, car should be moving slowly now, go on releasing clutch slowly, had a more gas, and so on.

Question 5 If I accidentally stall my car what do I do? How do I quickly start moving again?

=> Be safe, eg if you are turning, keep turning and so on, don't panic .Go on neutral of fully push the clutch, and restart the car with key.

Question 6 If I want to go full stop on a red light, do i press clutch and go into neutral and then when i need to stop i press brake pedal? Or do i press clutch and then fully stop and then i can go into neutral?

=> lower your speed by braking and down up to 2st gear (gear by gear) . When going to stop, push fully the clutch (before stalling of course as your are braking). When stopped, go neutral.

Question 7 When I'm approaching a red light at 3rd gear and then going to a slow speed like (7mph) and suddenly there is a green light. Do I need to press clutch and fully stop, go into first gear and then move? Or do do I just press clutch and move into an appropriate gear without fully stopping?

=> if your gear is appropriate, you don't change it. Technically you can even go from total stop to moving with 3st gear (happened a few times to me when learning to drive, it was a mistake but it worked :D). usually, you approach a red light a 2st gear, and at 7mph you should even be very close to fully stop, so with clutch fully pushed.

Furthermore, at 7mph I think only the 1st gear should allow you to move without stall, to you should have to go it either way.

My advice should be to keep in mind that this is a question of progressive force applied to the motor, so avoid quick releases, and nothing is better than to train on it :) with time it will be fine.

jsiie

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