TIL the US is the only rich country offering no national paid parental leave

https://lemmy.world/post/3478827

TIL the US is the only rich country offering no national paid parental leave - Lemmy.world

Life Pro Tip for Americans: If you can save up for a plane ticket and go to another country. Europe would be my recommendation. It amazes me that there isn’t a mass exodus going on in the US. I don’t understand why anyone would possibly choose to live there tbh.

Good luck getting visas and residence permits.

I (Danish) am married to an American and it was easier for me to get a US green card, than for her to get a residence permit in Denmark. After living some time in the US we decided to move to Denmark and while it’s great to live here, it was a freaking painstaking process to get her a permit.

Whats her ancestry? Many countries it’s easy to get grandfathered citizenship which makes it dead easy to move to most of the EU.

My mother is literally German and most of my family is as well, and I can prove direct lineage. But I can’t get Germany citizenship because the laws are so strict.

You’re right, Great Britain is easier for the children of Europeans, but other countries (possibly Denmark as well) are hard.

My Italian citizenship was pretty much just paying fees and my wife’s German citizenship was… free and a 1 page form. I think they made it more difficult after trump became president and they got slammed with applications.

I didnt mean to imply that it’s easy for everyone, but often times there’s an easier route than most people realize if they’re from European decent.

Oh for sure. Your EU citizenship is infinitely more valuable than my German lineage. The EU is a very sweet deal. I can’t how stupid Britain was to leave.