European HNers, what's your plan B if sh*t hits the fan?

Question

A few months back I moved back to Europe and what I'm seeing lately is disturbing me every day a bit more.Daily, there's either Putin threatening with a nuclear war, far-left/far-right protests in my capital, tighter border controls, and/or just very grim predictions for the future of Europe.That got me thinking: Do any of you have a plan B if the things go sideways here? And what's your plan B?

kstenerud · Accepted Answer

Things won't go sideways here. The worst that will happen is some power rationing this winter and a shaky next year.
The left-right split is a natural consequence of a world that's been stable for too long with creeping inequality. There's nothing like a good war to shake things up and bring people back together!
Europe's future is actually very bright! 5 years from now it'll be boom town.

smt88 · Answer

Aren't regular, peaceful protests a good thing and a sign of healthy freedom of speech?I understand your misgivings about tighter border controls, but if you're already inside the EU, I'm not sure why that would motivate you to move.

f1shy · Answer

First, I do not think is going to happen anything extremely bad here around. Extreme parties have been around for some decades now. And nothing very terrible happened until now.
That being said, I do have a plan B, in the case that it goes really bad: I would try to work remotely somewhere from south America. It is far enough, I can manage it with the language, and have some nice landscapes...
If it is possible to work from there in EU, is a big question. Right now it would no be legal, if that would change in case of a big chaos, I'm not sure.
Absolute worst case, start over in south America... why not?! After all is what many people did in the 50s.

LatteLazy · Answer

London here: Pray my employer can move me to the US office.Putin won't be invading any time soon, but our economy is collapsing and the root causes are political and demographic (as well as energy right now) so they won't be changing.

European HNers, what's your plan B if sh*t hits the fan?

Aren't regular, peaceful protests a good thing and a sign of healthy freedom of speech?
I understand your misgivings about tighter border controls, but if you're already inside the EU, I'm not sure why that would motivate you to move.

London here: Pray my employer can move me to the US office.
Putin won't be invading any time soon, but our economy is collapsing and the root causes are political and demographic (as well as energy right now) so they won't be changing.