posted on Oct, 19 2010 @ 11:51 PM
reply to post by m0r1arty
Hey m0r!
In direct answer to what you have proposed... no, I don't think that I would marry as a means of getting citizenship in another nation. Though I am
not emotionally or morally opposed to marrying and moving out of the US if love, or something that felt like love (so hard to figure these things out
sometimes) was in play.
To me if the economic meltdown continues, it will be a global phenomenon. I don't believe there will be many safe havens. If there are nations who
don't suffer as much as the others, I think that they will probably be the more wealthy Arab states - and I wouldn't be welcome there, nor would I
want to be. Therefore changing citizenship, to me, would simply be moving from one room to another in a burning house. Any space, within a
conflagration, is somewhere you don't want to be anyway. So one is as good as the next.
The same philosophy applies to the inverse of this issue... if a woman were to proposition me regarding matrimony as a means of her being able to come
here. If there was a legitimate emotional bond there, I would more than likely entertain the idea. But not for money.
Then again... enough money on the table tends to change opinions. But, short of an amount that would probably exist only in the plot of a work of
fiction... No.
~Heff