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Lots of western expats live in China because they have economic opportunities they don’t have access to in their home countries. Says something about the state
by richardknop 8y ago
Lots of western expats live in China because they have economic opportunities they don’t have access to in their home countries. Says something about the state of western world when so many young people go to China to climb the career ladder. Social mobility in western countries is almost non existent.
- C1sc0cat 8y agoAh the new FILTH aka Failed in London, Try Hong Kong
- justinclift 8y agoWell, the UK itself seems to be "Failing in London" these days. ;)
- C1sc0cat 8y agoWell the compete omnishambles that the current generation of politicians seem to have created I would probably agree with you
- richardknop 8y agoMost people on HN are software engineers. We are lucky that given our skills we can make it anywhere (some of the hackers around here are very brilliant and can basically live and work anywhere they fancy). But there’s a lot of professions outside of software bubble (more traditional jobs) that are not providing opportunities they once did and with AI and automation it’s going to get worse.
- AnaniasAnanas 8y agoAnd over here in my university in the UK half of the students are Chinese and most of the ones that I talked with plan to continue their studies and careers here and in the US. What you claim goes both ways.
- richardknop 8y agoIt’s hard to enumerate but I meet tons of young professionals in Asia who studied in UK/Australia/US/Canada and came back for better jobs and prospects. It would be interesting to make some study to get some numbers on how many stay overseas and how many come back, and what are their careers like 10 years down the line.