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mai on 25 January 2015
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SamuelRSmith said:
generic-user-1 said:


he can work in the EU without visa or anything, and its not just germany that needs highly skilled workers, all of northern europe needs well educated people, and its much closer to home, and the chances that he could get back to greece when the economy is turning arent that low, european companys will need a lot of staff in southern europe when the economy turns.


You do realise that we've been waiting for the economy to "turn" for almost 7 years now, and a lot of economic indicators are pointing toward a new global recession coming up within the next couple of years?

To steal a quote: there will be no economic recovery, prepare yourself accordingly.

Japan's been waiting for their economy to "turn" for 20 odd years, so don't hold your breath.

But, yeah, go anywhere where you can find work and build savings (another reason to come to SE Asia, taxes so low anybody can easily build savings). If you can do it being "closer to home" sure. Just don't bank on that factor being of any benefit.

A lyric digression from thread topic. Sometime in 2008 in the wake of a global economic crisis (or rather when it was publically aknowledged) or slightly before that, in 2007, a bunch of authors of various levels of sanity, who colloquially could be desribed as "crisis theorists", became well-known to the public. Some of them provided, as it turned out, a good outlook at what is waiting us in the future. LaRouche is a good example of such author, and unlike others rather substantial one despite his controversy.

We've got quite of few of them over here too, one of them proved to be rather insightful and eventually well-known. I remember talking to him in the winter of 2008-2009 iirc on the matter of Ukraine and his descision was rather pessimistic -- run while you can -- no options, no choice, no nothing, utter collapse, war. He vanished into obsucity since then and never left any kind of book or smth, so his "followers" have compiled a couple of editions (~500 pages total) of his posts on a few dozens of topics ranging from the state of mortgages loans in the States to world geopolitics. Surely he was heavily critisized: "You're dramatazing, it can't be that bad!" -- especially after 2010 when quite a few of his predicitions fell flat. But even though he was constantly wrong in terms of dates, general outline of the few possible scenarios seem intact and evolve exactly in the described succession, you just need to take into account a series of QEs that has postponed the effects for smth like 6 years -- and here we go, back to the early 2008. He's usually referred by his nickname, Avanturist.

All in all the point is... people in general are very much behind the events and grossly underestimate the effects of the crisis. There's indeed could be quite literally no recovery, effectively no recovery, not in our lifetimes, at least not in the time of economic activity of current generation. The sooner general public will transit from denial phase to acceptance -- the better. Yet it's good for the Greece it got warm climate and you could live from smth you grow on the land, if you happen to have one.