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moving to a new country

Discussion in 'General Support and Advice' started by markosss, Jun 3, 2014.

  1. markosss

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    Hi I am from greece and I am planing to move in the future to a more tolerance place.I am also afraid that I will face discrimination because of my ethnicity (greek).I want advice...in wich country should I move??? You can tell from your experience wich countries are tolerance about gays and imigrants?
     
  2. TwinNumber2

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    I live in the UK. I'd say we're pretty accepting of immigrants here. As for being gay, if you move to a bigger city like London you'll face pretty much zero discrimination. I live in rural Scotland and its okay... but I still feel that I could live somewhere which is more tolerant. As for Europe, I went to the Netherlands on holiday and saw lots of guys holding hands down the road. I think it looked really accepting. Good luck! :slight_smile:
     
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    Canada and the United States are tolerant of European immigrants. I wish I could say that most Americans are tolerant of Mexican immigrants, but they're not.

    Anyway - Canada and the US are very gay friendly, modern societies. I'm not sure how the politics are in Canada, but you might have heard, they're a joke in the US.
     
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    Thanks both of you for your answers! :slight_smile:
     
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    I am an Spanish guy who moved to the UK a year ago approximately. Best thing I have ever done, honestly!

    My experience is 100% positive. I used the chance to come out. I have been openly gay in the UK since I arrived here and it was so much better than being closeted that It made me realize that I needed to come out back in Spain too.

    Sexuality/attraction related things appear all the time in normal conversation so nearly anyone that knows me knows that I'm gay and I have not found a single bad reaction. I have only met one homophobic person and he was from a different country that is way more backwards in this kind of things And it ended up with quite a lot of people making fun of it (I didn’t even mention I’m gay).
    In general I have not faces any discrimination based on me being Spanish either apart from friendly jokes that I would just answer with more jokes. Also being “tanned and exotic” is an attractive thing for British guys eyes apparently, so I have no reason to complain :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:.

    Just make sure you are on an student/big city and everything would be fine. Spain is also a good place and quite mixed race-wise (not that you can easily tell Greeks from Spaniards anyway :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:) but you will probably need to speak Spanish since our English level is quite pitiful.

    And as Twinnumber2 said Netherlands 9and belgium, my cousin and his husband live there :slight_smile: ) is a really friendly place too