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Most Eastern Europeans I worked with in the Netherlands all had one thing in common - they put the effort in to leave their home countries (Romania, Hungary, Gr
by comprev 6y ago
Most Eastern Europeans I worked with in the Netherlands all had one thing in common - they put the effort in to leave their home countries (Romania, Hungary, Greece, Bulgaria, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, etc.) and never return. They took all the optional extra courses at school, took as many professional exams as they could afford, and worked on their craft as software engineers to get an opportunity to move to NL, IE or UK.
- gamesbrainiac 6y agoIn Bangladesh, the tried and tested way is to enrol in a master's program and take it from there. Not always something that you can afford though.
- petre 6y agoMostly because they're sick with corruption and politicians in those countries or they hadn't had much to leave behind.
- gamesbrainiac 6y agoEven then, it took my friend 7 years and the death of his father to start thinking about leaving the country. By 7 years, I mean that I've been telling him to leave for 7 years.
- hntrader 6y agoDefinitely agree with the inertia thing. The labor market works in the long-run but isn't frictionless for practical real-world reasons pertaining to personality, personal circumstance, immigration policy and so on.