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  Airbnb is going to collapse. Everyone I know who used it all the time 5 years ago refuses to now.
context: For people thinking, "Fuck this, I'll just move abroad," it's not as easy as it sounds.  Most countries where you'd actually want to live make it pretty hard to get legal residency there, let alone citizenship.  
  That said, I've actually gone through the process of getting citizenship in an EU country, which gives me the right to live and work both in that country and anywhere else in the EU.  In particular, if you have an ancestor from Hungary, Italy, Ireland or Poland, then you might have the right to reclaim your ancestor's citizenship from that country.  Most of those countries have a cutoff date that your ancestor had to immigrate after; Hungary has no such limit and you can trace your ancestry back as far as is needed to prove you have a Hungarian ancestor.
  Other possibilities: digital nomad visa.  Several european countries now offer these, including Hungary, Estonia, Spain, Czechia, Greece and Finland.  This visa will entitle you to live and remotely work only in that country; it does not confer EU citizenship or give you the right to live/work in other EU countries.
  For shorter term move outs, NZ and Australia both allow US citizens who are under a certain age (I believe up to age 35 in NZ and up to age 30 in AUS) to live and work in the country for 6 months to 2 years, depending on the work program you get and the renewals you undertake.  Some people use this as a stepping stone to get into the country and then either get into an education program or a longer-term working situation that could actually lead to permanent residency. >
  
  This is great info, but it’s also important to add that there are so many things to carefully research for each country as well. I’ve been downvoted before for mentioning this, but Ireland is in the midst of an extreme housing crisis. Housing for the Irish is already insanely difficult to get. So, to help people planning such a huge and expensive move: make local connections, investigate or hire a solicitor to help you with laws/regulations that differ abroad, and know that it is not as easy as getting a job contract and moving - that it could be months to years before you get a proper accommodation sorted. While anecdotal, my neighbours moved over last year (wife is a doctor, husband is an engineer), and conversations we’ve had with them revealed that, while they were offered a great opportunity via the wife’s job, husband hasn’t had a lot of success finding work and finding a house took them over 10 months! They have two children on top of it all, and I can’t imagine how difficult it was living out of hotels and relying on friendships with others to have places to live, even if it was temporary. To add, they only got the lease on the house next door to us because the prior tenants (both nurses) were their friends and gave them the lease to take over. The previous neighbours went back home when their contracts were up. You can Google and read more about it, but it is a serious issue that anyone should prepare and plan for. That said: Ireland is a wonderful country and there’s a lot of positive things, too! >
  
  I can’t believe you’ve been downvoted for this. The housing crisis in Ireland is insane and should be highlighted because it’s only a matter of time before other nations are in the same position >
  
  We have a less than 1% vacancy rate in my province, some parts of us are already there. >
  
  And the fucking nimbys/developers insist on only adding single family dwellings in car dependent suburban hell that no one can afford, or expensive condos that do nothing to relieve the housing stress.
  Older apartment buildings being gentrified into more useless condos that don't even sell in 2 years.
  Housing market popping and foreclosures? Don't worry there is a corpo ready to buy them all up at a premium to turn into airbnb/investments/expensive fucking rentals.
  Affordable housing hasn't been a priority in my lifetime. I couldn't even move to provincial housing (theprojects) if I wanted, cause there is a waiting list years long