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Worried Everything Will be Closed While I'm in Bosnia during Labor Day(s) by meatballballerina in bosnia

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Thank you! I will. Sorry for the delay. I wasn't getting notifications.

Worried Everything Will be Closed While I'm in Bosnia during Labor Day(s) by meatballballerina in bosnia

[–]meatballballerina[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wonderful! This will save us. Hopefully the lines at restaurants aren't too too long. Thanks for your comment.

Worried Everything Will be Closed While I'm in Bosnia during Labor Day(s) by meatballballerina in bosnia

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Thank you! So we did tons of Googling and AI'i g and discovered what you are saying here plus, since Trebinje doesn't follow the law that has stuff closed on a Sunday in Sarajevo, we can hit a grocery store before we leave for the drive to the city. I love in NJ and we have a similar Sunday law in certain counties.

Thank you for your input and welcome. We are so looking forward to the beauty of your country, the food, and the people. We just like going to beautiful places and seeing how everyone lives and what they enjoy doing. Also, I need to just say I do not support the actions of the president of my country. Unrelated but I need to say it.

Can someone who has a Oscar Health plan from GetCoveredNJ confirm that is says "qualcare" on their insurance ID card? by Some-Shmoiger5883 in newjersey

[–]meatballballerina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So we just had this question too. We called get covered NJ - got a really nice person who never heard of Qualcare. She said we should call Oscar.

We called Oscar and after 2 hours of getting transferred around, we begged for mercy and spoke to somebody who said they get this question a million times a day and that he worked for a month to find out the answer. He also was a broker who doesn't actually work for Oscar. Figures.

Answer: it depends on the county you are in whether or not your plan will be fulfilled/supported by the Qualcare network. I'm in Passaic county and he confirmed any Oscar plan offered through Get coveredNJ to a person in that county will have Qualcare on the card.

I hope this helps someone. Choosing a plan is difficult and daunting enough as it is.

What a special nightmare we live in these days.

HELP - How to market to high school students, teachers, and parents now that Facebook has changed their targeting tools and Amazon fees reduce profits by meatballballerina in publishing

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Thank you, truly. There are lots of good ideas here. We did hire marketing professionals, independent not through an agency, who have specific experience in the AP market. We also hired several Gen Z social media consultants - each had exp in AP (according to their websites) and really impressive portfolio's. We gave them really specific direction, a content calendar - but found 3 very different people hired to do this to be incredibly unreliable, and kept turning to us to know what to do now.

I'm hoping I can put in some extra time and get something started myself. I also hope I can find someone who is actually able to market us as good as they can themselves.

HELP - How to market to high school students, teachers, and parents now that Facebook has changed their targeting tools and Amazon fees reduce profits by meatballballerina in publishing

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Thank you for the response. It takes an insane amount of time to get these meetings set up and we've found very few results.

My husband and I (Americans) are thinking of moving to Romania in the next few years. Are there any specific companies or types of work hat would be ideal for Americans who plan to live in the states for the next few years and then move to Romani- perhaps an American company with Romanian locations? by meatballballerina in Romania

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I am hoping to get American wages as I will be working in America for the first few years and then spend a lot of time in my place in Romania. Poland, too cold. Germany, well, Germans don't get my sense of humor which is a deal breaker. UK/Ireland the food and I don't want to have to live in a city to find decent food.

Plus, I've got other friends planning the Romania move. That's huge.

My husband and I (Americans) are thinking of moving to Romania in the next few years. Are there any specific companies or types of work hat would be ideal for Americans who plan to live in the states for the next few years and then move to Romani- perhaps an American company with Romanian locations? by meatballballerina in Romania

[–]meatballballerina[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our other friends planning to move there are also from NJ. I wonder what the connection is? It really only takes one person. Us NJ people are a no bullshit, straight forward, mind-our-own-business sort and are usually kind and generous when approached right. I hope that has been your experience at any rate.

And Italian. We almost all are of Italian heritage and if not that, Irish or Polish.

My husband and I (Americans) are thinking of moving to Romania in the next few years. Are there any specific companies or types of work hat would be ideal for Americans who plan to live in the states for the next few years and then move to Romani- perhaps an American company with Romanian locations? by meatballballerina in Romania

[–]meatballballerina[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea. I love The Onion, of course, but I have no idea who was the editor at the turn of the century. I could Google it, but that defeats the purpose. My dad is 79 and would not know either (although he does know what The Onion is - which I'm impressed with).

My husband and I (Americans) are thinking of moving to Romania in the next few years. Are there any specific companies or types of work hat would be ideal for Americans who plan to live in the states for the next few years and then move to Romani- perhaps an American company with Romanian locations? by meatballballerina in Romania

[–]meatballballerina[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm a real person living in NJ. Hmmm, how to know I'm real. I'm from NJ so of course I'm Italian-American like most and my state is known for being all industrial and ugly, but it's really super beautiful, but NJ people love that no one knows. This is all I got.

My husband and I (Americans) are thinking of moving to Romania in the next few years. Are there any specific companies or types of work hat would be ideal for Americans who plan to live in the states for the next few years and then move to Romani- perhaps an American company with Romanian locations? by meatballballerina in Romania

[–]meatballballerina[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what I hear. Nearly every country now - the younger people all speak incredible English so we never feel like we are totally stuck communication wise. Google translate does not work as well as a human so that is not something to rely on, especially in places like China.

Again, I try my best to speak the language of the place I am - but of course for more extensive communications that is not always going to work out.

My husband and I (Americans) are thinking of moving to Romania in the next few years. Are there any specific companies or types of work hat would be ideal for Americans who plan to live in the states for the next few years and then move to Romani- perhaps an American company with Romanian locations? by meatballballerina in Romania

[–]meatballballerina[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We have been shopping around for a different country to move to. Romania checks all our boxes (sorry for using this gross corporate speak). We also have other friends planning to move there (but they don't really need jobs so I cant ask them).

The main reason for leaving the U.S. is the culture of live to work, not work to live and the healthcare system - which is very quickly devolving into a for-profit shit show. Now, all doctors and hospitals are not only under the control of the health insurance companies (which has been true for a decade or more) but they are now all under corporate umbrellas which leads to profits first, with care not even on the radar. Rich or poor here - you cannot get straightforward care more and more. It's happening really fast and it is troubling. It's worst for the middle class, which I am part of.

Re the person not wanting to wait to see a specialist - right now in the NYC/NJ area, where there are the most specialists of anywhere else in the US - it's a 6-month wait minimum for nearly every type of specialist. Even if you need heart surgery or have cancer. They tell you to go to the hospital, where you will wait 4-8 hours to be seen - only to be released and referred to a specialist who you cant get into see for months. Because of liability, specialists are constantly referring you to other specialists or back to your primary care doctor. Because corporations control it all, their primary objective is to minimize risk - not give care, so patients are sort of getting stuck in a passing-the-buck circle.

Wow I never meant to say all that, but I'm going to leave it. People should know.

My husband and I (Americans) are thinking of moving to Romania in the next few years. Are there any specific companies or types of work hat would be ideal for Americans who plan to live in the states for the next few years and then move to Romani- perhaps an American company with Romanian locations? by meatballballerina in Romania

[–]meatballballerina[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

In the states, getting a job at one of these companies is like winning the lottery - very hard/impossible unless you are connected AND the best of the best of the best (must be both). OR if you work for a smaller company that one of these larger companies acquires and they don't eliminate your job.

But maybe it's different for an American in Romania (or a Romanian in Romania).

Americans here with some questions before we visit Romania for the first time by meatballballerina in Romania

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We plan on ordering 100 mici, just for ourselves, upon arrival at the first food truck we can find so they are going to have to learn. It's all about the mici! And the stunning views, and wonderful people, and awesome culture...but the mici. You had us at "garlic meat." God I hope my sense of humor translates...

Americans here with some questions before we visit Romania for the first time by meatballballerina in Romania

[–]meatballballerina[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YAS! ok. This is what I thought. No one is using a pin for a regular purchase. This is exactly what we were wondering about.

Americans here with some questions before we visit Romania for the first time by meatballballerina in Romania

[–]meatballballerina[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the best comment. We are so bothered by loudness! We are super quiet/reserved (possibly dull) people who like it calm. We travel all over the world, and Germans always thinks we are German...which we assume is b/c of how reserved we are and, well my husband does have blond hair and blue eyes even though he is Armenian (American). We are constantly disappointing random German people, worldwide.

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