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@rafael_m tener la nacionalidad estadounidense no es la mitad, es prácticamente el 90% del trabajo para establecerte en ese país. Si tu objetivo es aprender o mejorar tu inglés, creo que está de más decirte que ni se te ocurra ir a Miami o las cercanías. Con un Master en Relaciones Internacionales, si quieres un trabajo bueno te recomendaría Washington D.C. o Nueva York. En Orlando muy dificil que encuentres un trabajo relacionado con eso. De todos modos, al principio seguramente sólo te contrataran para trabajos simples en tiendas o restaurantes, etc, cosas que también hay en Orlando. Pero si yo fuera tu, me establecería directamente en donde tienes futuro y no sólo presente. En cuanto a lo de informática y edición de video, eso sí lo puedes encontrar en casi todas las ciudades.

De todos modos si tu inglés es sólo básico, vas a tener muchos problemas en encontrar algo más profesional por lo que tu primer objetivo debe ser mejorarlo. Ese es precisamente el otro 10% de la dificultad para establecerte en ese país.

Orlando es caro, con una economía relativamente mala y sin muchas ofertas de trabajo. Si yo fuera tu me iría o a un sitio más barato donde ir mejorando el inglés, o a un sitio con una economía mucho mejor y mejores ofertas de trabajo.

@patriciaymp llegas un poco tarde a todo esto. A menos que seas millonaria o famosa, tu única opción es casarte con ciudadano o que te ganes la loteria.

Asi es marcel25, hay dos caras de la moneda, precisamente por eso hay que ser un poco mas objetivos. La economia puede estar mejor en EEUU, pero la calidad de vida en la media es mejor en España (con algunos asteriscos) y sin duda en Europa occidental. No defiendo ni una cosa ni la otra, todas las personas son diferentes y todas tienen prioridades diferentes. Hay a quienes les importa más el dinero o las cosas materiales, hay a quienes les importa más la tranquilidad o la diversión o la cultura, etc. No me queda duda que habrán muchas razones por las que seguramente el chico puertoriqueño que comenzó este hilo prefiere la vida en España.

Pero eso es en cuanto a España vs EEUU los dos tienen tantas cosas buenas y tantas cosas malas que si somos 100% objetivos quedan al final parejos. Si comparamos por ejemplo España vs Canada, ahí si es verdad que en mi opinión saldría ganando Canadá, ya que tiene todas las cosas buenas de España y de EEUU, y las cosas malas de ninguno de los dos, la única diferencia siendo el clima y la cultura. Bueno esto último es mi humilde opinión.

Creo que hay que ser un poco más objetivo con sus comentarios. Me imagino que sus comentarios vienen porque o no están familiarizados con EE.UU. y no saben que está lejos de ser el país de las maravillas, o no están muy familiarizados con la vida en España como para comparar con EE.UU. Y si no conocen Puerto Rico… pues menos todavía entenderán por qué Jeancito2013 quiere irse.

Aunque es verdad que España vive una situación crítica, siguen habiendo muchas razones por las que muchos siguen prefiriendo vivir en España que en… EE.UU. por ejemplo. Además, las razones por las que se van de España son meramente laborales, en cuanto a calidad de vida, España sigue siendo uno de los mejores países del mundo para vivir, inclusive mejor que EE.UU. España por ejemplo es más seguro y no tiene tantos problemas sociales como en EE.UU., y por supuesto Puerto Rico.

Aquí les dejo un artículo muy bien escrito como ejemplo del tema: http://www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/2014-02-15/pues-yo-me-vuelvo-a-espana_88838/

correo64, según la Ley de Memoria Histórica, se presumía la condición de exiliado de cualquiera que hubiera emigrado de España en el período comprendido entre el 18 de julio de 1936 y el 31 de diciembre de 1955. Los abuelos de enmanuel2712 llegaron a Venezuela en 1942 y además tuvieron que renunciar a la nacionalidad por lo que enmanuel2712 era el caso perfecto para hacer uso de esta ley. No importa la razón por la que sus abuelos hubieran salido de España.

Ahora ya terminada esta ley transitoria para nietos, mencionas el Código Civil actual como una posibilidad. enmanuel2712 dice que sus abuelos llegaron en 1942 y tuvieron que renunciar a la nacionalidad y no fue hasta hace poco que la recuperaron. La razón por la que tuvieron que renunciar es porque en ese momento aún no estaba vigente la constitución (1978) que permitía la doble nacionalidad con países iberoamericanos. En esta época el hijo la perdía también automáticamente junto con sus padres, así que inclusive si el padre hubiera nacido español, es imposible que haya conservado la nacionalidad hasta el nacimiento de enmanuel2712. No puede recuperar porque nunca lo ha sido, y tampoco puede optar porque su padre no nació en España.

Lo que sí es verdad es que puede APLICAR a la nacionalidad por residencia legal después de un año por ser nieto de un español de origen (y dependiendo de las fechas tal vez también hijo). Aplicar lo pongo en mayúsculas porque una cosa es aplicar y otra es que te la concedan, el proceso después de la aplicación tarda varios años y hay que esperar con residencia legal en España.

Si los abuelos perdieron la nacionalidad española después del nacimiento del padre, entonces enmanuel2712 tendría derecho a una residencia inicial con permiso para trabajar por circunstancias excepcionales. Si no es así, entonces sus únicos beneficios los tendría con la legislación europea (en cualquier país de la Unión) si va con sus abuelos y sus abuelos lo mantienen aunque sea con la más mínima contribución, no importa la cantidad de dinero.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/us/economy-and-crime-spur-new-puerto-rican-exodus.html

SAN JUAN, P.R. — Alexis Sotomayor has many reasons to stay in Puerto Rico: his two children; his mother and their gossip sessions over plates of fried rice; and the balm of salt and sun that leavens his life on the island.

But the artisanal soap business that Mr. Sotomayor built is barely hanging on amid rising costs and taxes, and sales that have sunk by 40 percent in five years. Crime is rampant; his girlfriend was nearly carjacked at gunpoint recently. So last month he boarded a flight to Orlando, Fla., to interview for a job at a rum distillery in the hope of joining the ever-growing Puerto Rican diaspora.

“I don’t see it improving,” said Mr. Sotomayor, a 47-year-old chemical engineer. “I see it getting worse. It’s the uncertainty. What am I going to do — wait until it gets worse?”

Puerto Rico’s slow-motion economic crisis skidded to a new low last week when both Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s downgraded its debt to junk status, brushing aside a series of austerity measures taken by the new governor, including increasing taxes and rebalancing pensions. But that is only the latest in a sharp decline leading to widespread fears about Puerto Rico’s future. In the past eight years, Puerto Rico’s ticker tape of woes has stretched unabated: $70 billion in debt, a 15.4 percent unemployment rate, a soaring cost of living, pervasive crime, crumbling schools and a worrisome exodus of professionals and middle-class Puerto Ricans who have moved to places like Florida and Texas.

The situation has grown so dire that this tropical island, known for its breathtaking beaches, salsero vibe and tax breaks, is now mentioned in the same breath as Detroit, with one significant difference. Puerto Rico, a United States territory of 3.6 million people that is treated in large part like a state, cannot declare bankruptcy.

From bottom to top, Puerto Ricans are watching it unfold with a mixture of disbelief and stoicism.

Alejandro García Padilla, who was elected Puerto Rico’s governor by a sliver of a margin in 2012, said that after he began to wade deeply into the island’s economic and social quagmire, his fight-or-flight instincts kicked into high gear.

“I thought about asking for a recount,” Mr. García Padilla, 42, said with a grin during a recent interview in La Fortaleza, the 500-year-old government residence, recalling, among other things, the $2.2 billion deficit. “But now it’s too late.”

A sense of pessimism pervades on the island. Streets are lined with empty storefronts in San Juan and in smaller cities like Mayagüez; small businesses, hit hard by high electricity, water and tax bills and hurt by drops in sales, have closed and stayed closed.

Schools sit shuttered either because of disrepair or because of a dwindling number of students. In this typically convivial capital, communities have erected gates and bars to help thwart carjackers and home invaders. Illegal drugs, including high-level narcotrafficking, are one of the few growth industries.

Puerto Rico, about 1,000 miles from Miami, has long been poor. Its per capita income is around $15,200, half that of Mississippi, the poorest state. Thirty-seven percent of all households receive food stamps; in Mississippi, the total is 22 percent.

But the extended recession has hit the middle-class hardest of all, economists said. Jobs are still scarce, pension benefits for some are shrinking and budgets continue to tighten. Even many people with paychecks have chosen simply to parlay their United States citizenship into a new life on the mainland.

Puerto Rico’s drop in population has far outpaced that of American states. In 2011 and 2012, the population fell by nearly 1 percent, according to census figures. From July 2012 to July 2013, it declined again by 1 percent, or about 36,000 people. That is more than seven times the drop in West Virginia, the state with the steepest population losses.

«I don’t see it improving. I see it getting worse. It’s the uncertainty. What am I going to do — wait until it gets worse? ALEXIS SOTOMAYOR, 47, a chemical engineer turned artisanal soap maker who is looking for work on the United States mainland Dennis Rivera for The New York Times
A Lack of Hope

Coupled with a falling birthrate, the decline is raising worries about how Puerto Rico will thrive with a rapidly aging population and such a large share of jobless residents. Of the island’s 3.67 million people, only one million work in the formal economy. The island has one of the lowest labor participation rates in the world, with only 41.3 percent of working-age Puerto Ricans in jobs; one in four works for the government.

“Today, Puerto Ricans with jobs are moving to the U.S.,” said Orlando Sotomayor, an economist at the University of Puerto Rico and the brother of Alexis. “Even people in their 40s and 50s, college professors with complete job security, are doing so. Some are starting all over. The phenomenon is highly uncommon and underscores the lack of hope that the ship can or will be righted.”

The current exodus rivals the one in the 1950s, when job shortages on the island forced farmers and rural residents to find factory work in cities like New York and Boston. Today, it is doctors, teachers, engineers, nurses, professors who are leaving Puerto Rico behind.

Just about everyone in Puerto Rico has a relative who left recently for Florida, New York, Texas or Virginia, among others. But the decision is never easy. Fathers leave behind children. Houses must be rented or sold at a loss in a glutted market. Businesses must be shut. And English must be polished, or in some cases learned, in a hurry.

Alexis Sotomayor said that on his January flight to Orlando, two acquaintances sitting nearby were also headed there hoping to find work. “Going out there in the morning and returning in the evening, after an interview,” he said.

After Coca-Cola laid him off in 2001, Mr. Sotomayor started experimenting with distilling plant extracts. He found he could make natural soaps and decided to go into business for himself, a move that would allow him more time to spend with his children.

Business boomed for years. So much so that he moved his homespun facility out of his house in 2005 and into a small building he bought in San Juan. He found that he was earning more money making soap than working as a chemical engineer.

Then in 2008, the recession pounded at his door. For five years, he has tried to lift his business; he went to fairs around the island, set up booths in shopping malls, promoted his flower-infused soaps, candles and lotions on television. He divvied up his store last year and decided to rent out half the building. He let go two of his four employees.

STAYING AFLOAT Mr. Sotomayor set up his natural soap business in San Juan after Coca-Cola laid him off in 2001. Dennis Rivera for The New York Times
But his expenses mounted, including $600 a month in power bills, more than double what consumers pay on the mainland. The sky-high cost is a consequence of Puerto Rico’s inefficient government-run monopoly on electricity and its 67 percent dependency on petroleum for electric power. Other utilities are exorbitant, too. Last year, water rates rose 60 percent in a bid to help cut the state-run water company’s debt.

The cost of private tuition for his children, a total of $2,000 a month, is one nonnegotiable expense for him. Like most middle- and upper-class Puerto Ricans, he long ago lost faith in the island’s troubled public schools. Public school enrollment has plummeted in recent years, in part because of declining birthrates but also because of the schools’ poor quality.

“Many parents, even lower-middle-class parents, put all their money into their children’s private school, even if sometimes they have to live in rented houses,” said Nilsa Velazquez, an economics professor at the University of Puerto Rico who plans to move to Virginia with her family this summer.

For many, the high rate of violent crime has been the capper. There were 1,136 murders in 2011, a record and far higher than the mainland’s rate. It fell to 883 homicides last year, a point of pride for the governor.

But the damage had been done. Life here has always been full of trade-offs, including a high cost of living. Now, though, there is little left to trade.

‘Live Here Just to Survive?’

“Between making less money and not knowing when someone will jump you, that pushed the quality of life very low,” Alexis Sotomayor said. “To live here just to survive? No, thanks.”

For Ms. Velazquez, the tenured professor who lives in Mayagüez, and her husband, who works for the Air Force Reserve, the mental calculations were similar. She is 50, she said. The last thing she wanted to do was give up her job as an economics professor, move her two teenage children and uproot her 76-year-old mother, who speaks no English and has never left the island.

But she has grown so disillusioned with the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez — one of the crown jewels of the island’s higher-education system, where she has worked for nearly three decades — that she no longer views it as a viable option for her children. In the face of continuing economic stress, the University of Puerto Rico has suffered the loss of a steady stream of valued professors and funding for important research projects. Even tenured professors have left, Ms. Velazquez said.

Mr. Sotomayor’s factory thrived for years, but now rising expenses are driving him out of business. Dennis Rivera for The New York Times
“The most important thing for me is my children’s education, and the second is my quality of life,” she said. “You see all of these fees and taxes going up, but the streets are terrible.”

This summer she will try to rent out her house rather than selling it and take a loss, and will move to Fairfax County, Va., where her husband will work for the federal government and her children will attend a top public high school. As an economist with a law degree, she is hoping to find some kind of job.

“I thought I could do anything in Puerto Rico,” she said. “Now that is gone.”

The frustrations of Mr. Sotomayor and Ms. Velazquez speak to the depth of the island’s economic problems.

The origins of the crisis, though, stretch back more than a decade. Tax incentives have long been a draw for corporations seeking to do business in Puerto Rico, and the island in turn has benefited from its ability to offer such breaks, in large part structuring its economy around them.

Tax laws were once abundantly generous, which fueled the spread of factories that made textiles and pharmaceuticals, among other things. That came to a crash in 2006, after the 10-year phaseout of a subsidy that provided American firms operating in Puerto Rico with tax-free income. Changes to the global economy and the worldwide recession exacerbated the situation. Since 1996, factory jobs on the island spiraled from 160,000 to 75,000.

Little was done to try to revamp the island’s economic framework. Instead, deficits climbed and pensions spun out of control. In 2006, the government shut down for two weeks because it lacked the cash to meet expenses. The governor moved to raise taxes. In 2010, the next governor reduced taxes and laid off 33,000 government workers. But Puerto Rico’s governors began borrowing even more heavily to get out of the economic logjam.

“It was cheap and easy to borrow,” said Mike Soto, the president of the Puerto Rican Center for a New Economy. “It got to the point where we tapped out what we can borrow.”

Painful Corrections

UNDER PRESSURE Gov. Alejandro García Padilla has taken steps to fix the ailing economy, like rebalancing pensions and raising taxes. Dennis Rivera for The New York Times
Last year, Mr. García Padilla, the first governor from the countryside, took over. With the island’s economy a shambles, and credit agencies threatening a downgrade to junk status, he had no choice but to take swift action.

Economists have given him credit for acting to remedy problems that have festered for decades. In one year, he moved to overhaul three major pensions, including for teachers, that were on a pace to run out of money soon. Two of them are still pending final court approval. He reduced the deficit by 70 percent. And he is holding the four main debt-laden government-run companies more accountable and insisting on more transparency.

Vowing not to lay off any more workers, he raised taxes sharply to provide much-needed revenue and moved aggressively to promote incentives to entice wealthy investors, like the hedge fund billionaire John Paulson, who has invested in an exclusive beach resort and condo complex. A number of businesses have left the island, scared away by the groaning economy and the high cost of electricity. But others have arrived or expanded, like Eli Lilly, Seaborne Airlines and Cooper Vision.

Four days before the junk status decision, Mr. García Padilla announced that he would present a balanced budget for next year, one year ahead of his own schedule. But his job just got harder. Analysts said the credit downgrades would make it harder to improve the economy. The governor ordered agencies to cut budgets by 2 percent.

“I’ve done everything I can to avoid a downgrade,” Mr. García Padilla said in an interview, calling the move “unjust.” “Maybe I can’t detain the winds right now, but I can build the windmills. I am an incurable optimist.”

But not everyone is applauding. His tax increases have hit some businesses hard, which could pose a further drag on the economy. Among the many taxes he initiated, the governor raised the corporate tax rate to a maximum of 39 percent. Last year, the economy continued on a slide. “The new administration has a bookkeeping mentality as opposed to an economic development mentality,” said Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rico’s nonvoting representative in Congress and a political opponent of the governor. “Here you find Puerto Rico with an underlying economic problem charging its corporations — its job creators — 39 percent. Hello!”

Perhaps the most maligned is the new lucrative gross receipts tax, which some owners of small- and medium-size businesses say threatens to put them out of business. Because of the way the tax is structured, it affects companies with less than a 5 percent net profit margin. This means that many food-related companies, like supermarkets, and new businesses, are hit hardest. The smaller the margin, the higher the tax.

Some stores are paying an effective tax rate of 130 percent, said Manuel Reyes Alfonso, the vice president of a trade association that represents the food industry. If the tax is not revised, some will be forced to shut down and others will have to raise prices, he said.

“It is absurd,” said Mr. Reyes Alfonso. “It’s like selling the car to buy gas.”

In response, the governor is forming a committee to take a second look at the new taxes and the island’s complicated tax code. Waivers to the tax are available, but Mr. Reyes Alfonso said they were difficult to obtain.

As he sipped coffee in the bakery section of one of his stores, José Revuelta, the president of SuperMax grocery stores in Puerto Rico, said he managed to expand during the recession. But now, with the gross receipts and corporate tax cutting into his business, he is holding back on capital investments, raises and bonuses. He said he wanted reassurance that the tax hikes would be temporary.

“I can understand doing this on a short-term basis,” he said. “But there needs to be a plan.”

Not many are confident that a long-term plan exists to lift the island from such a sustained crash. But it cannot get much worse, they say.

“Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to restore yourself,” said Mr. Soto, of the Center for a New Economy. “I’m hoping that’s what’s happening.”

Darte una respuesta concreta dependería de muchos más factores… por ejemplo:
tienes alguna otra nacionalidad o algún familiar con alguna otra nacionalidad?
qué idiomas hablas y a qué niveles?
me imagino que estas apuntando por un trabajo en diseño gráfico cierto? o estarías dispuesto a otras cosas o a seguir estudiando?
qué cantidad de dinero y/o apollo tendrías para comenzar una nueva vida en el exterior?
qué tipo de vida buscas y qué es lo más importante para ti: ganar mucho dinero o tener un trabajo flexible y relajado, tranquilidad en tu vida o stress pero muchas oportunidades, etc.

Tengo el presentimiento de que ni Suecia ni Estados Unidos son las mejores opciones para ti, pero imposible saberlo sin saber más sobre tu caso y lo que quieres.