37 years in the industry, I knew when I was a young cook I wouldn’t make jack shit for pay, so I always looked at places where I could enjoy life: N. Florida, Buenos Aires, Bermuda, Bonaire, Seattle, Los Angeles (ok, that was for straight up pay…never again!) now Spain. Hard work, a good partner, and dumb luck.

Sold our house at the right time (Trump presidency #1), funded a year & a half in the EU with ‘no income’ (you need to show income plus have enough funds to show independence -and family send letters of assurance & their bank statements for support, plus private insurance, etc. & patience.

Found an amazing town in 3.months and have been here for 7 years, restaurant opened 4 months before COVID lockdown, the landlord was amazing throughout the whole ordeal, didn’t charge the 3 months closure, we paid half rent for the 1st year and were able to repay it within a year). Neighbors were amazing (again) very supportive through the whole deal.

This is when we found out we can do it just by ourselves…the kids then some casual employees PT during the high season. This year we had 2 neighbors kids work with us for their first ‘real job’.

Great community, we work very hard but have some awesome quality of life (Mediterranean is 500m away) and more than anything got lucky.

I wish others the same!

There is no debate anymore, it’s just obtuse mouth hole noises

oh absolutely, had to leave the US to live the American Dream, and can’t say it was a bad decision!

Yeah detaching your cheffiness in your personal life is a job in itself, I had OJT all throughout my children’s lives until they moved out, THEN my wife and I opened a BBQ joint and it’s just her and I and HOOOOO BOY the shoe is on the other foot!!! lol…we have fun.

Well there is a reason the top American addiction specialist companies (cigarette industry PM, etc.) bought up all the processed food companies…they had the method but needed to diversity the market because of the backlash & lawsuits for cigarettes.

Now who would sue a company for producing a daily necessity? At the end of the day all they’d be required to do is soap a label on it saying ‘part of a balanced diet’ or some such bullshit.

America is driven by addiction.

They’d better, the fiduciary responsibility of the corporate entity has the one, and only one requirement.

The cancer, deaths, depression, poverty, oppression, etc. is just for fun!

onions, potatoes, spinach, egg, done

Left the Xbox when I got my steam deck a year & a half ago and haven’t missed it at all, the final straw was when I bought a game it would not let me play it because it was offered on game pass, which I then had to get a monthly subscription for and no…no…not for a single game… just no

oh absolutely…there probably won’t be an event…there hasn’t been one yet and he’s already deployed the troops

This, too, was my thought.

There won’t be a long term. The mid term would see enough people out of work or without resources for food/shelter etc that they will resort to alternative means of acquiring resources which will then give the administration the excuse it needs to enact martial law

…and that will be that

EU leadership really needs to figure out that’s it’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t with this shit bag…they might as well just do whatever the fuck they want and ignore him until he died.

Absolutely. Got it for Xmas one year, played until there was a god awful fuck scene that was…really something, and unexpected. Like, ok, I get that there are people that this is their only sexual outlet but can you fucking warn a guy?

It really reminded me of an updated Perfect Dark (360 version), which was…just stupid.

A good step

Just prep for when she meets Trump

absolutely spot on write up, thank you

Full of godamm Mongorians!

Full of godamm Mongorians!

gonna ride that fucking Horse until it’s glue