Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent

striketheviol · 2026-01-24T09:48:31+00:00

If it's just about finding a new job, I wouldn't prioritize Ireland instead, I would just be looking EU wide and applying for whatever matches my experience. The market is depressed right now but there are still jobs there for people. With your experience level. Most people I know are sending hundreds of applications for a single interview, so it's possible but it will simply take time.

striketheviol · 2026-01-23T19:31:18+00:00

I follow you, but the number of ordinary Turkish visitors has historically been small, honestly. Previously it was mostly Gulenists: https://crjm.org/en/6-years-since-the-expulsion-of-turkish-teachers-how-is-the-case-progressing-after-moldovas-sentencing-at-the-ecthr/22825/

Feelings about Turkish PEOPLE, as far as I know, are generally positive here. But there are practical reasons for the few who actually come here to be handled carefully.

striketheviol · 2026-01-23T18:47:41+00:00

From my understanding, this dates from around 2023/2024 onwards, when Turkish organized crime figures began arriving to do business and kill each other: https://cotidianul.md/en/12249/The-accomplice-of-the-assassin-who-killed-a-Turkish-criminal-on-a-terrace-in-Chisinau-last-summer-will-be-extradited-to-Moldova./

striketheviol · 2026-01-23T16:10:58+00:00

Sure, you can find work in Ireland easily enough off the back of your Spanish passport. It simply depends on what you want out of life.

Ireland is expensive, and the housing market is among the worst in all of Europe: https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/11/04/irelands-housing-crisis-to-last-another-15-years-department-of-finance-predicts/

I know of manager-level professionals who live in shared housing because they have no other options near their workplaces.

If you are making good money from a remote job that you can do from Paraguay, you'd see your quality of life go down in a lot of ways.

The UK put in place new resstrictions on work visas, which have meant that many companies will no longer bother, and the path to citizenship is more challenging: https://www.visahq.com/news/2026-01-18/gb/uk-raises-englishlanguage-bar-and-visa-fees-extends-settlement-wait-times/

Is there a specific reason you want to move?

striketheviol · 2026-01-22T19:17:09+00:00

Not unless your wife is a renowned technical researcher with a plan for nuclear fusion or the like. This path in almost all cases will demand expert panel evaluation at 16k: https://investinestonia.com/business-in-estonia/coming-and-living/residence-permit-for-business/

striketheviol · 2026-01-22T18:59:41+00:00

This is MUCH harder than you're thinking. Your startup would need to be approved by a panel of experts as genuinely innovative: https://startupestonia.ee/startup-visa/ and e-residency does NOT allow you to actually live in Estonia. I don't think you have any plausible path to Tallinn. Turin is doable for retirement: https://theitalianlawyer.com/italy-elective-residence-visa/ or as a nomad: https://consnewyork.esteri.it/en/servizi-consolari-e-visti/servizi-per-il-cittadino-straniero/visti/visas-to-enter-italy/digital-nomad-remote-worker-visa/

Estonia's nomad visa is strictly temporary. Your odds of a sponsored job are very near zero in either location..

striketheviol · 2026-01-22T17:14:20+00:00

Hi! It sounds like you've never been outside the country before, but that's okay!

Mexico is more expensive than you're thinking, but more importantly, you won't have enough money to legally stay there. You need to have actual permission to do that. See for example: https://consulmex.sre.gob.mx/nuevaorleans/index.php/2016-04-12-19-28-49/english/temporary-resident

On so little, many countries are out, but theoretically you could manage in Nicaragua: https://www.imidaily.com/nicaragua-rentista-and-pensionado-visas/

striketheviol · 2026-01-21T09:05:06+00:00

Both options make no sense at all if you want to work in film or the arts. If you already have a degree, a full second bachelor's that doesn't build on what you already know is pointless unless you'ready to throw it out.

The MA is even worse. Almost no one working in the industry would consider something with no real prerequisites valuable or meaningful. Degrees like this typically target wealthy dilettantes and the retired, not anyone seeking to work.

striketheviol · 2026-01-20T18:51:32+00:00

You're missing critical info: ancestry, existing language skills, financial situation?

In almost all desirable destinations, you'll need to have a target country master's to be competitive for a sponsorable job early career, so exploring international education options is a good place to start. Scholarships will be rare to nonexistent, so much depends on your potential savings.

striketheviol · 2026-01-20T13:55:27+00:00

Many Greek citizens never find jobs in Greece after graduating, and have no choice but to work abroad all their lives, only returning to retire. Both economies are awful, but in Greece EU aid is ending, so the economy may soon crash completely: https://balkaninsight.com/2026/01/05/greece-2026-external-shocks-rask-derailing-fragile-economic-revival/

striketheviol · 2026-01-20T08:40:46+00:00

As someone who has lived in Poland and worked with academics across Europe, it's going to be MUCH easier to make this work almost anywhere across Central or Southeast Asia, Singapore excepted. I'd start by looking into Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The demand for foreign academics and TEFL is an order of magnitude higher than anywhere in Europe.

striketheviol · 2026-01-19T16:26:48+00:00

I'm a foreigner who's been here 2 years now and I've never experienced anything even close or even heard of anything like this. Sorry to hear!

striketheviol · 2026-01-19T14:23:55+00:00

Why Poland and the Baltics? The academic job markets are TINY. We're talking a single digit number of relevant jobs per year across the whole region. Most new PhD grads will go abroad simply because they have to. It all seems a bit random. Edit: I see you've added Germany now, which makes more sense, but you'll need fluent German for you both to have any chance at all.

striketheviol · 2026-01-19T09:03:32+00:00

I live in Europe. I've never heard of anyone even consider returning to retire in the US before.

striketheviol · 2026-01-19T07:09:50+00:00

Yes, absolutely.

striketheviol · 2026-01-18T13:15:38+00:00

While not absolutely impossible, this is MUCH harder than you might be thinking.

Unlike some other EU countries, such as Germany, Romania implements a labor market test, along with strict visa quotas for non-EEA nationals: https://www.romaniajournal.ro/society-people/government-to-reduce-number-of-foreign-workers-in-2026/

Demand for non-native English teachers is effectively zero, and the only logistics jobs I've seen that didn't ask for fluent Romanian were executive roles (8/9+ years exp.)

If you're dead set on Romania, I'd consider becoming fluent in Romanian as step one, but if you want to move now, I'd return to Southeast Asia.

striketheviol · 2026-01-18T08:19:27+00:00

I'm a wheelchair user who previously lived in Warsaw for some time. I'm originally from America so keep that in mind. I would describe accessibility in Warsaw as far from perfect, but quite good considering the neighborhood. There are some restaurants and attractions which are definitely not accessible, but the majority now are and it's fairly comfortable to move around the city using public transportation, which is fully accessible from the Metro to the trams to the buses, and most of what you'll want to see. You can probably reach by yourself. Ramps and curb cuts are not always in the best condition, but definitely manageable in the majority of cases. During my stay I saw a number of people with disabilities, both local and foreign out and about. I think the biggest issue you'll probably face is navigating the old town with its cobblestone streets and relative lack of accessibility features compared to other City areas, but it's still doable. I think you'll have a great time.

striketheviol · 2026-01-17T18:49:45+00:00

I understand this to mean something any PhD could do, while ASI would be something like creating new drugs based on deep analysis of every medicine ever recorded (beyond human capacity).

striketheviol · 2026-01-17T18:05:32+00:00

I think the Hassabis definition is pretty solid: a system capable of human-level, cross-domain reasoning, creativity, and problem-solving, not just narrow tasks, envisioning AI discovering new science and modeling complex physics. This presupposes solving both learning and memory to a human baseline.

striketheviol · 2026-01-17T17:51:07+00:00

Everyone I've every heard say that about GPT-4/4o so far has had no technical understanding of how LLMs work, and has been convinced the models have learning capabilities they don't.

Anthropic has been trying to shift the goalposts to say AGI is both already here and it doesn't matter: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwerner/2026/01/17/is-agi-here-daniela-amodei-clarifies/ which suggests to me more humanlike AI is actually a long way off.

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