Bronwyn Scott-McCharen

gatekeeper of expatriation. EN | ES

[Bronwyn Scott-McCharen @BronwynScottMcC]

@zhuphilia "A Mütter with her Kinderwagen passed by—no doubt on the way to the Kinderarzt to give her child a desperately needed Impfung"

[Bronwyn Scott-McCharen @BronwynScottMcC]

@zhuphilia needs more random italicized German words sprinkled about for ~authenticity

[WTBA @chillicothe20]

Atlanta IS a major hub

[Venera 🔅 @geovenera]

white person who is obsessed with bolivia instead of japan

[Bronwyn Scott-McCharen @BronwynScottMcC]

But things that Americans attribute to “Europe�� are not true across the board—the “free healthcare” in Albania is not the best, the Balkans are way more socially conservative than the US, train travel is basically nonexistent there as well…

[Bronwyn Scott-McCharen @BronwynScottMcC]

Again, “Europe” here means a handful of Western/Southern European countries. Yes I know about Albania—I have firsthand experience witnessing that phenomenon.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Americans are leaving the U.S. in record numbers, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries. https://t.co/QQiBw6YAvv

[Maia @maiamindel]

a substantial amount of contemporary *spanish language* literature here in south america is basically "two writers get a divorce" mfa drivel, which tells you the problem are the publishing companies and the pipeline to get a deal with them more than anything else

[Bronwyn Scott-McCharen @BronwynScottMcC]

That being said, the politically-motivated American “diaspora” (like all politically-motivated diasporas) is absolutely insufferable

[Bronwyn Scott-McCharen @BronwynScottMcC]

The Americans that move to Albania are ones that don’t qualify for a residence permit anywhere else in Europe (no money, no skills, no ancestry) because Albania lets them stay for a year visa-free

[Bronwyn Scott-McCharen @BronwynScottMcC]

Also impossible to work locally unless you’re willing to accept very low wages (and COL has massively increased in Tirana and other cities) + speak fluent Albanian.

[Bronwyn Scott-McCharen @BronwynScottMcC]

The Americans that move to Albania are ones that don’t qualify for a residence permit anywhere else in Europe (no money, no skills, no ancestry) because Albania lets them stay for a year visa-free

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

The new American dream, for some of its citizens, is to no longer live there. In nearly all of the European Union’s 27 member states, the number of Americans arriving to live and work is at a record and rising. Even Albania is now flooded with American migrants.

A Gallup poll last year found 40% of American women, ages 15-44, would like to permanently move overseas, if possible. By comparison, in 2023, the same pollster found that a slightly smaller proportion of sub-Saharan Africans—37%—wished to do the same.

Strikingly, the new American migrant is more likely than ever to bring children in tow, laying down roots. “You don’t face the prospect of your 5-year-old going into a kindergarten and doing an active shooter drill. The wages are higher in the U.S. but the quality of life is higher in Europe.”

Thought-provoking piece in @wsj by @drewhinshaw and @JoeWSJ

https://t.co/D47Z04nJGV

[Bronwyn Scott-McCharen @BronwynScottMcC]

As in, the “free healthcare” sucks and anyone with a bit of money uses private (which is pretty decent), public transport + trains is basically nonexistent

[sam @sam_d_1995]

incredible things are happening on the Marriott subreddit

[sam @planetbakers]

no shade but do people not know that twitter has like no actual relevance on anything anymore

[Bronwyn Scott-McCharen @BronwynScottMcC]

@zhuphilia Threads might actually be worse than BlueSky

[Bronwyn Scott-McCharen @BronwynScottMcC]

TIL that Ashgabat, Turkmenistan has third wave hipster coffee shops

[Bronwyn Scott-McCharen @BronwynScottMcC]

Apparently Trader Joe's tote bags are the latest trendy item to have in Vienna. Will need to pick up one when I'm in the US in May.

[machine yearning engineer @confusionm8trix]

you’re on stan twitter, I’m on stan twitter. we are not the same