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I've heard of people getting their credit score up, taking out all their lines of credit, then dipping to Europe for 10 years to start a business. By the time they came back, their credit scores were fine again because it had been long enough to not affect it. Obviously planning to do this ahead of time is illegal, but if it just happens by circumstance and you're stuck in Europe and can't pay back the debt for 10 years then like…
Then like…what? You have massive debt and can never return? Or we’re pretending Europe is a different planet and you can just “start new”?
“You’ve heard of people”. No, you haven’t.
nO yOu HaVeNt sorry for not including a link that took me three seconds to google, asshole
https://www.reddit.com/r/expat/comments/1bwy9qt
Europe doesn't use the same credit history system as the US; so yes, it quite literally is a different planet in that sense and you quite literally can start new. This is not financial advice.
Oh so you googled it now? Back down from having heard of people doing it?
Spoiler alert, hasn’t happened! And you haven’t heard of anybody for whom it has! So I stand by my statement.
It’s theoretical nonsense, and credit scores are not the same as creditors, but keep talking nonsense about this “one weird trick” you heard on Facebook!
You’re being unnecessarily aggressive, it’s a common expression that they heard of it on the internet.
They didn’t say they personally knew people who experienced it first hand. So he looked up the specifics when questioned.