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I am curious for people who are immigrants on HN, how many are simply digital nomads or people who have the flexibility to move countries because of a favorable
by SolaceQuantum 10y ago
I am curious for people who are immigrants on HN, how many are simply digital nomads or people who have the flexibility to move countries because of a favorable job market and also a "center"(where wages are highest and most infrastructure already established) for the audience of HN(tech folk primarily). In other words, being in tech lends itself to immigration rather than being an immigrant lends itself to tech.
- jballanc 10y agoIt's an interesting question to be sure. I can only speak personally... My mother was an immigrant. My grandfather worked in the embroidery industry, and was as close to a "programmer" as you could get in his day (he turned new embroidery designs into punch tape that was then fed to the machines that mass produced the design). He worked in two different countries before finally moving his family with him to the third and settling down. That said, "digital nomad" definitely doesn't apply for him. The equipment he used for his work was 9 feet tall and occupied a good sized room. "Favorable job market" might be closer to the truth, though, as his skill set was a rather specialized one.