RoadieRich

u/RoadieRich@midwest.social
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I have UK and US dual citizenship (I was born in the UK and married an American, naturalized about a year ago).

Advantages:

  • Easier entry into both countries, and countries with appropriate treaties with one or the other. This is somewhat important to me under the current US administration.
  • Will allow my wife to get UK citizenship more easily should she want to.
  • I can vote in elections in both countries. Also important with the current US administration.

Disadvantages:

  • US citizens have to file/pay taxes no matter where in the world they live. I believe the US is the only country that does that - although this does apply to all American citizens, regardless of dual citizenship; I only mention it because dual citizens can more easily move out of the US.
  • I need to keep track of two passports, especially when traveling, although I only need to show one at a time.

I'm currently in a production support role in the US, and I'd never consider it: I work too closely with production operatives that they'd smell it on me. My last couple of role involved programming automated forklifts, so it was strictly forbidden.

Ten years ago I was doing an internship an engineering firm in the UK, and a few times we went out for a beer with lunch. It wasn't exactly common, but it did happen.

We met on OkCupid. We were on opposite sides of the Atlantic, but she had a friend on this side, and they were comparing the "weird" profiles they were each finding. OkCupid has a "if you liked this person, you might like these more" section, and I appeared in there. She wasn't really looking to date anyone, but she clicked, messaged me, and we clicked. I moved to the US to be with her after a two-year long distance relationship, and we'll be celebrating our ten year wedding anniversary next year.

on Duck · c/memes · 8 pts · 3y

On the internet, no one can tell you're a duck.

It's definitely great in theory until you inherit a codebase with no tests, poor documentation, and numerous reported bugs already live in production. Even better if it was written by people hired because they could do other things better than they could code - which looking at some of the unlabeled wiring messes we were left, isn't saying a lot.