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If you do it quite as cynically as that, yeah, that's sounds a bit dodgy - but the more common pattern, I think, and frankly more problematic for Germany, is th
by mseebach 9y ago
If you do it quite as cynically as that, yeah, that's sounds a bit dodgy - but the more common pattern, I think, and frankly more problematic for Germany, is the one where you go to Silicon Valley for a few years and try your luck, and if you're good (and lucky), make the big bucks and stay -- for all the badness of US health care, people who've made big bucks for decades are generally by a wide margin able to secure and keep really good health care. The people who aren't as lucky (and/or good) return and take up their €45k/yr careers.
- timr 9y agoI doubt that's a serious problem, given the odds against it happening. Seems far more likely that someone would leave Germany, earn a higher salary in the US for a while, and return as soon as a serious health threat made the disadvantages of the US system clear. Presumably Germany has some sort of system to tax imported wealth to handle these scenarios.
- pjc50 9y agoNo, you can totally do that if you put up with the severe inconvenience of being an economic migrant for that time. (Immigration bureaucracy, distance from family, working and living in your second language, navigating an unfamiliar system, immigration bureaucracy, and the risk of being arbitrarily deported)
- timr 9y agoI didn't say you couldn't do it, I said it was unlikely you'd get rich in the US (true), and there's probably a system to tax you on imported wealth (as there is in the US).