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[quote=Anonymous]40% stiles me as very high, given the technicalities of the laws.

I have friends who moved to Italy about a decade ago, based on the citizenship of the husband’s grandparent. He got citizenship first, then the wife and children were piggybacked from the husband’s citizenship. They moved to the small city where the grandfather grew up, which is possible because they kept their US jobs and telecommute. The kids go to public school. It seems like a really pleasant life, except that the wife didn’t learn Italian as a child like the husband and kids did, and she’ll never be as fluent as they are. It’s an issue for both bureaucratic life (her driver’s test was a major stressor) and social life.

I looked into doing the same based on German ancestry, but the immigrant grandparent cannot have given up German citizenship in favor of US citizenship. And many German emigrants DID give up their citizenship during WWII because there was a lot of prejudice and suspicion against anyone who didn’t.

I assume most people on a thread about European ancestry are white, but for anyone who’s not, be sure to factor in the question of racism. I’m white and my husband is not — though he’d love to live abroad in theory, he pointed out that he’d face prejudice (at least outside the biggest cities) in ways that I would not. [/quote]

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