>> is age discrimination in tech a thing there? << Not in my experience, as an older-than-average dev here in Finland. This country where I have landed values

>> is age discrimination in tech a thing there? << Not in my experience, as an older-than-average dev here in Finland. This country where I have landed values fairness and egalitarianism quite highly. If anything, age and experience is respected more highly. It may help that I have a solid conviction that age/sex/race/etc discrimination is abject bullshit, and any company that does it fails in both tech and life. This lets me be bold when pitching or interviewing! >> I'm currently in NYC and my salary, despite crazy costs, lets me save money. Also I can buy property in any borough on my own saved money. Is that possible with a single engineer's salary where you immigrated to? << Definitely. It's even possible on a factory-worker's salary, or even a supermarket cashier's salary. The social stability and calm that enforces is priceless and hard to overstate. I am happy to pay higher taxes on a lower salary to do my part to maintain this society. In NYC, despite my also earning quite a high salary, I had many friends who were struggling, and I always had the gnawing concern in the back of my mind that my savings could somehow be wiped out from some kind of shenanigans: a weird medical bill that my insurance would refuse to cover, or being sued out of existence by a wealthy person with an ax to grind, or getting hacked because my bank's cyber-security was nonsense. Here, even if the worst possible thing happens and your account is zeroed out, you and your family will not be out on the street or couch-surfing. In fact, you will have help and your dignity will be respected.