Anyone would have a better life in France instead of the US but good for him. Glad to see there’s still some backbone in Hollywood.
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Wish I had the money to escape the United States too
I'm a regular guy who saved up for years while studying another language and gtfo of the US. It's an option.
ITT: people not realizing his wife was born in Lebanon. Are they safer than your average non-pure-white family? Absolutely. But they have legitimate reasons to be scared.
Also apparently she's a human rights lawyer so she's bound to have pissed off republicans one way or another already.
She was a key part of the team prosecuting the war crimes case against Israel
Yeah I get hating rich people, because fuck inequality, that's true, but the Clooneys seem like pretty decent people to me as far as rich celebrities are concerned.
He for sure has too much money(Google said $500 mill) but he’s small time compared to the richest and the corporations that are doing the most damage to the future. I doubt more than a few folks interested in eating the rich are champing at the bit to get at Clooney.
Well VP Vances wife is an immigrant, as is Trump:s wife
And haven't you seen how elated they appear to be about their choices (assuming they had a choice to begin with)?
Wtf is wrong with these comments. Is lemmy full of hate bots now aswell?
Trump has won twice, and you still blame "bots".
It's people. Just people.
God i know but i want them to be bots.
Don't you mean French actor Le George Clooney?
George Le Clooney
And they still let him in after that Louvre heist?!
Ocean’s 14 is about to be authentic as fuck
The rich and famous will live their lives in a bubble no matter where they reside. And Clooney is still going to hear about Trump's criticisms no matter where he lives.
Having more money than you could spend in your lifetime buys you options not available to most people, news at 11.
i got out with less than 20k.
I lived in France for two years and he's absolutely right.
Him and the lead singer for AFI are models of what men should be more like.
Must be nice to have "Buy Myself French Citizenship" kind of money.
You only need savings of about 1.5x the SMIC (minimum wage) - currently 1801.80€ monthly for 12 months and you can get a year visa. If you have enough the following year, you can renew. Do that four times and you can ask for a more or less permanent multi-year residency if you speak french by that time. So as you can see, you could probably sell a house in the US for a decent profit and invest time enough to gain French residency without needing George Clooney money.
He could do it for under $500K. He probably started the talent investor visa process during the 45 administration, as they take about 4 years to get approved.
Super easy for him to spin up some production company that makes 2 art movies a year, hire 3 French people he knows on 5-year contracts, and he's basically at the minimum requirements. If he's bought and invested more than a certain amount in a home as well, that also counts towards citizenship.
He could do it for under $500K.
Oh, is that all? Let me check my couch for loose change.
If he’s bought and invested more than a certain amount in a home as well, that also counts towards citizenship.
I'm sure he has a home in the South of France. Probably walking distance from the Cannes movie festival
Océan's Onze
They're rich. His children will be fine wherever they are.
being rich doesn't protect you from fascism
Says something when even rich people are better off elsewhere.
Lemmy in a fucking nutshell: Fuck these rich people!
Also lemmy, missed the entire fucking point.
If you’re NOT on a government watch list by now, you should be ashamed of yourself.
If you're posting history of the last 6 years doesn't get you on a list, I don't want to be your friend.
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