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I'm a white, male from Norway. A country that has pretty close ties to the US and which is probably very unlikely to end up on any list of countries whose citi
by bborud 10y ago
I'm a white, male from Norway. A country that has pretty close ties to the US and which is probably very unlikely to end up on any list of countries whose citizens will experience much of a hassle in immigration.
Over the last couple of months the US has developed from a country that I'd rather not visit to a country I really, really don't want to visit. At least not while its political system appears to be under duress and the situation appears to be extremely volatile.
I do travel quite a bit, so this is an actual choice I make several times per year. Just in the last month I've been offered free airline tickets to the US twice, and I declined both offers. One of them was to give a talk (which I really would have liked to), the other was some form of bonus ticket from an airline I fly frequently.
Over the last year I've also experienced an increased interest in working here in Norway from people in the tech industry. Mostly white people with US citizenships or green cards working in the bay area.
If this goes on for much longer it will hurt the US because right now I don't think many of my peers (people in the tech sector) would want to go there, and due to some of the other executive orders, we don't know if we can safely use cloud providers in the US in the future (it'll be great for local cloud providers though).