What's the smallest amount of money you'd need to get to flee the country? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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So imagine this:

you owe X amount of money, and fleeing the country makes it vanish

Or you accidentally are given X amount of money, and fleeing the country is only way to keep it

Inspired by: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/25/they-fled-the-country-to-escape-their-student-debt.html (Who left over 20k. Would not bounce.)

https://www.the-sun.com/news/5684480/worker-accidentally-paid-300-times-salary-vanishes/#:~:text=Instead%2C%20the%20lucky%20man%2C%20who,seen%20or%20heard%20from%20since. (I would bounce)

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[-] lauha@lemmy.one 47 points 4 months ago

Does this question even make sense in EU? I just walk across the border as usual and get an apartment there.

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 70 points 4 months ago

If someone says "the country" on a global forum, you kinda know which country they're from

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

LOL

Even more so when someone expresses the idea of fleeing from debt.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 months ago

Stop! He's already dead!

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Especially when it's student loans or medical debt.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

As a Canadian there were many time in the past I thought of taking the ultimate escape from my student loans.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

the ultimate escape

Ahh... Fleeing to the one place not yet corrupted by capitalism...

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

If only

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't think that's entirely correct. For example, there are a "good" amount of people in Germany too that are privatinsolvent.

I like it where I live too, even though obviously not everything is perfect. But if you had a crippling debt that you could never pay off, then moving to another country to lose that debt is appealing.

[-] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

people in Germany too that are privatinsolvent.

That is somehow the opposite. They get a chance to nullify their debts without the need to flee.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The question is about escaping debt. I think crossing between EU member states is disqualified.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I cringe for the day Lenny is banned in THE COUNTRY. I may even join tik tok after the ban.

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