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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 15:13:09 JST Adrianna Tan

   This is the same for every country you go to study in now. There aren’t many exceptions. Immigration paths are closing everywhere.

   https://www.reddit.com/r/InternationalStudents/comments/1i8ilim/one_thing_i_want_to_tell_potential_f1_students/

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 15:18:49 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Somewhere in that thread a person in Germany is arguing that Indian food in Germany is better than in the U.S. and I am struggling to not laugh and fall off my seat

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 15:19:22 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Chema Hernández Gil :sf:

     @chema it was always that way, and whatever limited windows there were are closing too lots of places

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     Chema Hernández Gil :sf: (chema@social.sanfranciscan.org)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 15:19:23 JST Chema Hernández Gil :sf:

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     @skinnylatte No lie. I moved to Switzerland to study on a student visa at 18. Of my non-European foreign peers, perhaps 10% were able to remain there after their studies. The writing was on the wall from day one. Few made the voluntary choice to leave, like I did.
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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 15:23:26 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Düsseldorf has great Chinese food tho. Tho not even remotely close to one block of say, Flushing

     https://restofworld.org/2023/xiaohongshu-users-make-dusseldorf-destination/

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 15:25:15 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Chema Hernández Gil :sf:

     @chema even spouses of uk citizens are finding it hard to move there now. The U.S. still doesn’t have super onerous financial stuff for spouses. Which is good

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     Chema Hernández Gil :sf: (chema@social.sanfranciscan.org)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 15:25:17 JST Chema Hernández Gil :sf:

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     @skinnylatte Yeah. Fortress Europe, Fortress America.
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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 15:31:26 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I think the only country in Europe that has good Indian food is the UK, for obvious reasons. But they are also not in Europe anymore ahahaha

     Even then

     People who are like ‘Indian food is better in the UK’ are mostly really saying ‘British Indian Restaurant food (totally its own thing) is my favorite Indian cuisine’, and that’s ok, but the regional southern Indian foods of the Bay Area and Gujarati foods of NJ are also right there

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 15:35:41 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I don’t go to Saravana Bhavan in any city because they are horrible (they keep passports of workers, and the owner also.. once sent a hitman after an employee’s husband)

     That’s the pinnacle of dosa in most European cities. There’s nothing better than it.

     Paris has some decent Sri Lankan Tamil spots I guess.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 15:36:20 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I know this is a convo about immigration but food and immigration are intimately entwined for me. I can’t live somewhere where I don’t love the food

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 15:38:33 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • samir, müüüüüüüüüüde

     @samir yeah, although most Indians are not the ones sayings ‘there is no good Indian food in the US’. They mostly see and know there are regional variations in all the places that different people have gone no matter which side of the Atlantic it is

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     samir, müüüüüüüüüüde (samir@mastodon.functional.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 15:38:35 JST samir, müüüüüüüüüüde

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     @skinnylatte You can absolutely get proper Punjabi food in the UK (or Tamil, or Bengali, or Gujarati, or…), and there are many, many options in London and other big cities. (I miss it so much.)

     I used to go to Pakistani places, mostly, because it’s the closest to what I grew up eating. I took some German friends once. That was fun.

     But: do not ask a white person. They will direct you to the nearest “curry house”, a.k.a. approximate Bengali or Bangladeshi food with fries and beer.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 15:48:33 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • samir, müüüüüüüüüüde

     @samir where I am most days now in central California, it feels like rural Punjab. So many Punjabi families, and their food is of course great. Actual dhabas for Punjabi truck drivers too

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     samir, müüüüüüüüüüde (samir@mastodon.functional.computer)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 15:48:35 JST samir, müüüüüüüüüüde

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     @skinnylatte Totally. Wouldn’t listen to anyone else’s opinion. 😛

     The one universal truth about Indians is that we are everywhere, and we need our food. You can find a dhaba anywhere.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 16:06:23 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • António Domingues

     @keyboardpipette clarifying here

     https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/113910318420930441

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     António Domingues (keyboardpipette@genomic.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Jan-2025 16:06:24 JST António Domingues

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     @skinnylatte you do get good regional Indian food in the UK, at least in #Leicester. Again, that's my experience in the UK and I don't think I've ever tried it in the US.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 01:48:11 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • FrancescaJ

     @FrancescaJ once, in Copenhagen while I was standing in line for a hot dog a nice Danish old lady poked me with an umbrella to tell me ‘chow chow box Chinese food is that way’

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     FrancescaJ (francescaj@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 01:48:12 JST FrancescaJ

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     @skinnylatte when I lived in Denmark someone posted in a local internationals Facebook page asking where to take visiting Australians for a nice dinner. So many recommendations for various Asian restaurants before the antipodeans & asians leaped on the thread to say Noooooo lol