@gvenema @codebyjeff @pluralistic Ah yes. I lived in the NL for a couple month and that was funny when opening my account. I also had to pay taxes there by filling the little 40 pages long booklet but at least the belastingdienst also sends you the 40 pages long instruction manual (in dutch) to do so correctly. Didn't feel lost at all while not speaking the language very well.
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Having been through the US immigration process (I got my first work visa more than 25 years ago and became a citizen in 2022), it's obvious to me that Americans have *no idea* how weird and tortuous their immigration system is: -
Having been through the US immigration process (I got my first work visa more than 25 years ago and became a citizen in 2022), it's obvious to me that Americans have *no idea* how weird and tortuous their immigration system is:@codebyjeff @pluralistic I live in France. We know how bad our system is because of language tests and general culture questions even French people would have a hard time answering. But for knowing several people who applied for citizenship, at no point is there things as twisted as 1200p forms to fill (long forms sure, but not that long).
This is batshit insane, but the US is known to set up crazy things in place (the Healthcare system for ex.) and people there being confused when discovering that "No, we don't do *batshit crazy thing* in the rest of the world. Only you do."