• tiredofsametab@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    As a US citizen living in another country and trying to buy a house, you want me to have to change my citizenship to do this? 0.o I’ve lived in Japan for the better part of a decade and am trying to buy a property where, hopefully, my wife and I can live for the rest of our lives. Having to become a citizen in Japan (which does not allow other citizenships except in some very specific cases) is a non-starter for me. I need to be able to freely enter and leave the US in case my family have any issues. Why should I be fucked like this?

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      1 year ago

      I mean, housing issues and challenges in Japan are likely different than in the US.

      If Japanese law required you to be a Japanese citizen in order to buy a home, then yeah, I’d expect you to become a citizen to get a home.

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        1 year ago

        I just happen to live in Japan, but you can reverse the countries in my example if it helps. If I were a Japanese citizen living in the US almost 10 years and wanting to just buy a home for my family, I think it’s unreasonable to have to give up Japanese citizenship just to get a house in the US. Using my example, I would not give up JP citizenship because I have aging family I need to have unlimited access to in Japan.

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          1 year ago

          I’ll be honest, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to need to go through some form of certification to purchase residential housing.

          To use US terms, as those are what I’m familiar with, a greencard would be sufficient, since it would allow you to legally live and work in the country.

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            1 year ago

            I would say “valid status of residence/visa” (greencard/permanent residence can be super long processes of over a decade), but yeah that makes sense to me.

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              1 year ago

              Just a visa would be too low of a bar, imo. Show you’re a permanent resident and planning to stay here.

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                1 year ago

                So if that process takes a decade or more the person can just… go fuck themselves despite any intention of permanently living somewhere? This is especially rough on people who move mid-life. I also don’t know if the US has an upper age on mortgages which could basically keep people out of home ownership which can also keep them in a position of less stability.

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                  1 year ago

                  Young people can’t own homes now because we have a lot of corporations and foreign ownership buying them to either rent at exorbitant costs or leave vacant as investments. I don’t really care about the hypothetical person who might come over here at some point maybe pinkee swear when folks here are having issues now.

                  Also, I confirmed with someone who does mortgages that there isn’t an upper age limit on getting a mortgage in the US, so that’s not a concern.

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                    1 year ago

                    I mean, this is just dodging the situation. I’m a hardworking, tax-paying person, but fuck me because some other people are doing bad things? That’s not good policy. Stopping people living in the country on valid status paying taxes from buying a place to live is asinine.