Good day! I may have found the perfect subreddit for my biggest problem facing me. I have tried /r/IWantOut, and thanks to them, I have a clearer image of how to solve this problem, but this subreddit was what I had been looking for all along.
Backround: I'm 16 years old and live in Hungary. I'm currently in my first year of High School, but already looking at moving away and have been since Primary School. To really simplify things, this country isn't a good one, and I don't see my future here. You can look up any news story from recently about Hungary to see why. I will go into detail into some things later. But all you need to know is that I want out of here no matter what.
Marketable skills so far in life: above average English skills compared to my peers and everybody besides my teachers. I don't want to show off, but I'm comfortable saying that I'm 70% or so there to being on a native level. I can understand any English broadcast or video (besides lesser used vocab like law text and a few official sounding words) and I consume all online content in English (no joke) But to a foreign employer, this would probably be a minimum requirement to boot, and there are actual native speakers out there in the world, so not noteworthy. I never make a fuss about it.
My hobbies/what makes me happy: repairing old electronics and computers, fixing up old PCs when I can. I love doing it, but not having income or time really holds me back. There are so many repair projects/electronics projects I've had to put off because of not having enough money for equipment or not having the time to do it. I've also wanted to learn Arduino stuff for a while, but I feel like I wouldn't be able to really learn it in the best way with me having 0 free time to dedicate to it after lessons/studying/extracurricular activities.
If I want to start a project, I don't want to start it after being exhausted as hell at the end of the day, and knowing I can't make real progress with it or troubleshoot it properly without pushing it to the next day, if you know what I mean. All in all though, this isn't an expensive hobby, and many times, all this stuff is free because people think it's junk! So it wouldn't really need that high of an income.
My other hobbies are video games, but as many of you know, it's totally possible on the cheap, even computer gaming, and with PC technology not making major progress anytime soon, older PC hardware can still keep up in the modern age with tweaks, so basically no costs at all.
The important part: Options for getting out: Being an EU citizen is great, because it gives me no-hassle travel and easier way of getting into countries. This also means that it's easier to get an education abroad. Most other countries offer free University education, which is awesome. But here is the kicker: I'm a slightly above average student. I'm good in the important subjects, but I don't excell 100% at them.
So, if a University has to make choices on who to accept, why would they choose ME, when there are probably smarter people who do excell 100% at everything applying to the very same thing? I may underestimate stuff, since basically most of my classmates in High School will most likely drop out sooner or later, but I don't really know how these Unis accept students.
And just putting this out there, but right now I don't know 100% what course I should take in university that would be useful and something I'd enjoy doing too! Computer science is very interesting and I'd take it for sure! But then the problem above arises.
Now let's get to the important part that some of you may be well-versed in: living. (I have considered the USA for uni/living and it's not completely off the table)
So I do know that wherever I'd be in europe, I'm completely fine living in a medium-small size one room flat, probably could make due with an electric cooker or seaweed cooker for making food. All I want is a cozy place, a city with many things to do (for example, NYC has many free events and places to have fun, like central park, but NYC is.. that) , and the ability to meet likeminded people. Old computer hardware and electronics are everywhere, since everybody is getting rid of them.
I'm so sick of living in this basically-no-name country where there are no opportunities like anywhere else. And this country's other problens don't make it better. There are countless people here working their asses off and struggling to make ends meet, even though the cost of living is lower than in America. It just makes me depressed. This is why I don't want to live my life here.
If you were able make it through all of that text (and this isn't even all of what I had to say, haven't even mentioned language, how my pipe dream would be the US, how I'd actually get a job in the EU, and so much more but this post is already longer than I wanted it to be), Thank you for real!
Again, looking for any constructive feedback and advice. I hope this is the right place for this post, and whether there are other subs I could post to. Thank you once again for reading. Just wanted to get this out there, this issue is really making me anxious.
Submitted January 06, 2019 at 04:19PM by Generic_Green_Squid http://bit.ly/2R94JD3
