It'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

It'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.