The first vote for Austria's Federal President ended with a tie. And 2 candidates went into the 2nd round. And on those candidates is not only a fascist piece of trash, but a Nazi as well. And there was a good chance that he would become Austria's next president.
These are troubling times indeed. And I really have no intention of living in a country that has a Nazi as president. So there were several option as contingency plan on the table. Germany was the first logical option. It has the same language and a similar culture and due to the fact of it being part of the EU it would be easy to move there. But the fact that Germany is having big issues with right wing groups and the AfD especially didn't exactly making it my first choice.
The next logical choice was Great Britain. Most people might be thinking that Englands weather would have been a deciding factor. It was not. Since Great Britain will be having it's Brexit election soon and nobody tries to venture an educated guess if it is going to stay in the EU or not, that didn't make it prime target either.
This left pretty much 3 options. Canada, Australia or New Zealand. Each of those tragets have their benefits and their downsides. Australia is an interesting choice with an interesting job market, but the partial inequality with LGBT rights doesn't put it in first place.
Between Canada an New Zealand it's a toss. Both have interesting job markets and I could see myself living in either country. When it comes to Canada I was only going for jobs in Birtish Columbia to begin with. But on the other hand Canada is quite in quite a number of apsects similar to US, at least when it comes to lifestyle. And I've already had that experience. So when I was going to take such a big step I was going to an for me interesting experience. And that is definitely New Zealand.
It's different form what I'm currently used to and lots of it's fronteer spirit is still alive. So I did make my first choice in case the unthingable should happen. And yes of course I did do my homework and looked into all facts that relate to me, including the fact that I hope to retire at some point for my job and that's what made New Zealand the top pic. I brought my english resume up to date and did have my first email correspondence with finding a couple of head hunters that I was willing to work with. It is still the preliminary phase, but the process had to be started at some point.
When I was talking to my friends about that, they understand the reasoning behind it and they were thinking of something similar. But they did have a much harder time making that kind of a decission. Maybe for me it's just different. I've left Austria before and lived for almost 10 years in the US. And in my opinion there is no point an getting mad about somehting you can't change or make yourself feel bad. If you don't like something it's up to oneself to step up and change it.
Now that Van der Bellen beat the Nazi scumbag by 32.000 votes that contingency plan has been put on ice...at least for now. The fact remains that 49,7% of the population voted for a fascist candidate could mean that at some point in the future this contingency plan will require some rethinking. But at least for the moment there is no need to continue on that contigeny path.
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