It’s not only the pay by the way. I study and worked a bit abroad and the difference with my country’s labs are noticeable: there is way less battleling with ac

It’s not only the pay by the way. I study and worked a bit abroad and the difference with my country’s labs are noticeable: there is way less battleling with accounting do get things done abroad. In France you need ton of papers to get your money back for professional spending and if you got it at all it comes months after the fact. I did some work for a professor there and it take a year to get the money in my pocket. I also worked for someone in Japan and I had my money two weeks after and in one case on the spot. So it makes a huge difference when working on any project that need a bit of money. Imagine having to wait a year to get a domain paid by the university or having to send a student take a whiteboard marker from another room at the beginning of each class because there are not enough for every room. That’s how shitty it is working in public research in France.