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Hello, my husband and I expatriated from the U.S. in 2017 when Cheeto Hitler won the election the first time, first to Asia, to Hong Kong, before settling in Ireland in 2020. I'm an Irish citizen hold dual-nationalities because my mother is an Irish immigrant who moved to the U.S. in the 1950s. However, my siblings and I were raised in Ireland (we went to high school in Dublin), and so we feel more Irish than anything else at this point.

However, Ireland stopped allowing citizenship via grandparent about 20 years ago and now only recognizes children from actual Irish citizens, so it's not enough that your husband is of Irish descent. That said, you can move to Ireland if you have a job and a work permit or a student visa. If you're on a tourist visa you can stay 90 days, but you would have to investigate Ireland's rules and regulations regarding expatriation.

So, say you get a job, or decide to enroll in university while on the student visa, you would have to go through those processes and I believe you would have to leave the country for a certain amount of time and then come back so that you visa can be altered/amended. This might have changed as the EU has done a lot of visa and travel changes of late, and each EU country has its own rules.

Some countries still offer "golden visas" — usually meaning you have to invest, usually in property, a certain amount of money to get a residency visa, like Malta, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, and Austria.

Portugal used to be very popular, but like Spain, there is expat/tourist fatigue setting in because speculators have turned properties into rentals or Airbnbs at the expense of local residents looking for affordable housing. Some, not all of the EU countries in the Schengen region allow citizenship through not just a parent, but grandparents or great grandparents. You will find the list here:

Hi Anthony,

Thank you so much for your message.  It's great to know there are great people, such as yourself, willing to provide some additional information when it comes to making huge decisions like leaving everything you've ever known.  My parents did it, so I am looking into all options.  My husband is the one that needs some convincing.  He is on the up and up with his job and I am looking to ensure my children have a future without being surrounded by hate and oppression. 

May I ask how you landed on Hong Kong for your first move out of the country and why you left?  I admire your bravery and recognition of this threat to the globe, which was our country. 

Thank you,

Mimie

@Anthony Duignan-Cabrera Also looking to escape from Cheeto- Hitler 😂😂 Just checking to see if there is are jobs available in television/ media/ marketing in England/ Ireland? or is there a way to work remotely with a Visa to transition more easily if we were needing to sell property in US?

@PPPm_MSY

I owe my adventurous nature, to my mother who, at barely 20 years of age, left Ireland in 1957 on her own to take a job as a nurse made for a doctor and his family in Los Angeles. There, she met my father, had three children, got divorced and proceeded to raise the three of us on legal secretary's salary in California, the UK and finally Ireland. Once the brood grew up and went to university, my Mom went on to live and study in places as far flung Florence, Italy, London and Myanmar! We're definitely our mother's children. My sister lives in Santiago, Chile, the country of our father. But I'm pretty sure my sister lived in at least six European countries over the the past 30 years.

At present, my husband and I are in Asia, wintering in Kuala Lumpur with side trips to Singapore and Hong Kong. You only go around once, take it all in...

@Sky39

Unfortunately Irish and UK media is VERY incestuous, so unless you attended public schools (Oxford, Cambridge, etc.) in the UK or Trinity College or University Colled Dublin in Ireland, getting a gig is incredibly difficult. Also, the media market is exceptionally small. Plus, the British are ***. LOL! Just kidding. I don't hate the Brits as much as I pity the post-Brexit losers who actually let themselves be duped into leaving the EU, thoroughly putting the nail in the "Empire's" heart for good.

Though, my mother hates the English so much she is still angry about the Battle of the Boyne ... and that was in 1690.

@PPPm_MSY

Hey It tried to reply, but they wet their panties because I used naughty words.

@Sky39
Unfortunately Irish and UK media is VERY incestuous, so unless you attended public schools (Oxford, Cambridge, etc.) in the UK or Trinity College or University Colled Dublin in Ireland, getting a gig is incredibly difficult. Also, the media market is exceptionally small. Plus, the British are wankers. LOL! Just kidding. I don't hate the Brits as much as I pity the post-Brexit losers who actually let themselves be duped into leaving the EU, thoroughly putting the nail in the "Empire's" heart for good.
Though, my mother hates the English so much she is still angry about the Battle of the Boyne ... and that was in 1690. - @Anthony Duignan-Cabrera

That's rubbish, I know a few people that work in the UK media and they didn't go to the elite universities. So please do not post misinformation.

@PPPm_MSY
Hey It tried to reply, but they wet their panties because I used naughty words. - @Anthony Duignan-Cabrera

Please read the terms and conditions. I didn't see your post, if you used inappropriate language then it probably did get removed.

@Sky39
Unfortunately Irish and UK media is VERY incestuous, so unless you attended public schools (Oxford, Cambridge, etc.) in the UK or Trinity College or University Colled Dublin in Ireland, getting a gig is incredibly difficult. Also, the media market is exceptionally small. Plus, the British are wankers. LOL! Just kidding. I don't hate the Brits as much as I pity the post-Brexit losers who actually let themselves be duped into leaving the EU, thoroughly putting the nail in the "Empire's" heart for good.
Though, my mother hates the English so much she is still angry about the Battle of the Boyne ... and that was in 1690. - @Anthony Duignan-Cabrera

So as not to mislead others, below are the UK's top-ranked Universities for journalism-related degrees ():

1.    Oxford Brookes University. ...
2.     Leeds Trinity University. ...
3.     City, University of London. ...
4.     University of Sunderland. ...
5.     University of Sheffield. ...
6.     University of Portsmouth. ...
7.     Coventry University. ...
8.     Edinburgh Napier University.

@PPPm_MSY
Hey It tried to reply, but they wet their panties because I used naughty words.  - @Anthony Duignan-Cabrera
Please read the terms and conditions. I didn't see your post, if you used inappropriate language then it probably did get removed. - @SimCityAT

Exceptionally bad. The forum's rules are clear on this subject.