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I agree that developers in France are rather underpaid, but you're comparing apples to oranges. A lower French salary comes with a number of valuable benefits

I agree that developers in France are rather underpaid, but you're comparing apples to oranges. A lower French salary comes with a number of valuable benefits which makes the take-home pay difference much smaller than what you're saying : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13412599 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13412599

RhodesianHunter 9y ago
None of those points really apply though. U.S. engineers generally get excellent healthcare coverage already. As a non-French citizen the pension system is worthless to me.