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The weird thing about these kinds of posts is that it only contributes to places like Australia, in this case, lagging behind other places like the USA. All thi
by wahsd 11y ago
The weird thing about these kinds of posts is that it only contributes to places like Australia, in this case, lagging behind other places like the USA. All this is is another one of those whiny posts that sets a mindset that you have to leave Australia and head to the Valley if you want to make it when what the post really should have been about is " We (Australia) really have some work to do. Here is what we need to do and how we push the government to support our industry".
It really kind of annoys me that "foreigners" fall to this victim type mentality and then rather than pushing their own local governments to change, they advocate leaving and only exacerbating the problem by draining the local talent and interest group, while piling on to the concentration of people in the tech centers like the Valley.
I would love to know what the total damage the USA does to source societies and countries by luring and essentially poaching talent and expertise away. I know that India is really kind of struggling with that issue. On one hand they see it as a source of remittances, but on the on the other hand even in a huge population like India they are really starting to feel the sting of the "brain drain" in the tech sector.
- ajdlinux 11y agoAs an Australian, it saddens me every time I hear of a friend leaving for the States. I can count at least six or seven people off the top of my head who went through my uni's computer science program - a relatively small department, I should add - at the same time as myself, and have since moved to the Bay Area. I can't really blame them, but it'd be nice if some of the brighter ones stayed around.
- voltagex_ 11y agoMoving to Sydney for a job could be almost as expensive as moving to the States. I'm looking in Melbourne but the market down there seems like a mess right now. Couple that with the falling Australian dollar and moving to the US and getting paid in USD doesn't sound so bad.
- ajdlinux 11y agoThe primary motivation for those I know who have moved to the Bay Area isn't the pay (although that certainly is part of it), it's finding more interesting work and being in the SF/SV culture. Personally, I don't like the start-up culture, and I happen to work at a place that does interesting things already, so I'm quite happy staying in Canberra.
- voltagex_ 11y agoI'm in Canberra too - contact me if you'd like a coffee.
- catmanjan 11y agoAren't you at IBM? I thought they stopped doing interesting things in the 80s
- jacques_chester 11y agoI moved to NYC. NYC's tech scene is bigger than all of Australia's scenes added up. The Bay Area is bigger than all of Australia's scenes multiplied.
- dhruvsuyam 11y agoWhat is the name of the company you work for?
- wycx 11y ago