Ask HN: Where Would You Emigrate To?

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3 years ago

I'm a hacker -- I'm not the best... mostly a phreak turned script kiddie fluent in bash and python, and the "vulnerabilties" I find tend to be web application vulns, not hunks of C that smash the stack. I also have a background in policy, and UX research -- I acquired these skills after leaving Washington DC when Trump took power.

I was born in Pittsburgh, and after extensive interviewing (including at RAND and CERT), I'm seriously considering emigration.

If you had the above experience, where would you go?

I'm eligible for an Italian passport "jus sanguias"[1].

So far, the only places that have made serious overtures are North Korea and Israel, but I suspect I wouldn't be a cultural fit -- both have legal cannabis, but I like to eat so NK isn't a fit, and I'm a lifelong Palestinian rights advocate and uh... not Jewish... so they're off the table despite having a lot of their folks into crypto as in cryptography.

I'd joked before COVID I wanted to be a digital nomad and take the train from Moscow to Bejing, but not really inclined to give either tourism dollars and glorious cyberpunk Hong Kong isn't doing so great either so uhh... suggestions?

Where would you go if you woke up one morning and felt like your US Passport was worthless?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_nationality_law#Attribution_of_citizenship_through_jus_sanguinis

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