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It seems pretty much most of them have youtube channels. It makes that tiny 5000 number admitted by American Expat to look to be much bigger. Of course there are more normal reasons to move to Russia. Fascination with the culture / language / history, married to a Russian, low cost college education.

Just an example, dude. The point is that maga fascist Americans moving to Z Putin fascist Russia now is a political statement unlike moving ANYWHERE else now except maybe North Korea.

Yes there are.

Oy vey. The plot thickens. What is up with the Dutch weirdo? I had assumed Israel had zero chance of winning this year. The song is good enough to win but I assumed politics and the thought of another Eurovision in Israel would kill it. I still think that, but ...???

If they wanted something more traditional, they could have moved to a place like Paraguay. Instread they make themselves propaganda tools for genocidal fascist dictator Putin.

According to the American Expat (traitor) dude, it's 5000 people. In other words, almost nothing. Compare to the millions of decent Russians such as Sanctioned Ivan who have fled fascist dictator Putin.

Yeah Gaza is the new Ibiza.

What the fudge?

Why is Australia? Why is Armenia? If you bothered to take two minutes to learn ESC qualifying rules you wouldn't need to ask such a dumb question.

Yes.

I like Olly. He's very talented. But before he was making a lot of kick Israel out noise but then he thankfully shut his pie hole.

Congratulations Eden Golan! Qualified for the Grand Finale in spite of the vile haters in the streets.

Of course they are! Qualified for the Grand Finale!

Arab countries could participate if they wanted to. Morocco has previously. You're obviously another one that knows nothing about the ESC.

What a game player you are. Did I ever say such a thing?

Being Jewish IS not only a religion. The rest of your post irrelevant to my point so I will ignore.

Not a mistake. The vast majority of Russia is in ASIA.

Sleazy of you to not show the full map of Russia. Anyway there is more to this than geography. Japan is a western country. Russia definitely isn't.

Look at a map. Next ....

A load of truth more like. Ukraine is Europe.

That's what Kremlin propaganda repeaters do.

I did some research on Montgomery AL which as the capitol city has a lot going on that a town like Florence wouldn't. It looks like you can get a very nice house there in a decent area as low as 150K. Not 100K but what do you expect in a capitol city of any state? Anyway I have rejected it not because of the hot and humid summers which are expected but the cold and humid winters which FEEL much colder than the temperatures! So far it seems further north in Alabama (Florence) doesn't have that problem.

Being accessible to Pittsburgh is a big plus. Just checked and found an acceptable one bedroom for 550! Living there I would get a better car and plan on weekly fun trips into Pittsburgh when the weather is OK. You might also want to look at Augusta GA and Columbia SC.

The housing cost vs. rental economics is very location dependent. In some places buying is overpriced relative to renting, and in others renting is overpriced relative to buying. Plus those conditions are subject to change over time. You can't really make universal generations on the issue. There are also very significant pros and cons to both choices, so it's not only an economics decision assuming a person can afford to buy something. Another factor which I don't see mentioned often is the economics of buying either with cash or mortgage when older. It seems to me if doing that, estimated life expectancy should come into play in the decision making. For example, say you have 150K in cash to buy outright. Well is that so smart to tie up all the cash including opportunity costs and maintenance liabilities if your life expectancy is 10 years? As far as mortgages retired people generally earn much less than working so any tax advantages of a mortgage may be limited or nonexistent.

Of course Hamas is to blame but that doesn't give Netanyahu a pass for failing to stop it when there were more than enough warnings that he should have done much more to do so. Netanyahu stays in power because Israel is still at war, but he really should be booted out ASAP.