What grieves me most is the drain of talented software engineers from Europe to the US. There's a 'club' of Scottish engineers working is Seattle called the Mic

What grieves me most is the drain of talented software engineers from Europe to the US. There's a 'club' of Scottish engineers working is Seattle called the MicroScotts, and there's not a small number of them, but the are few opportunities for such people in Scotland itself. You can find top flight British, German and other European engineers at Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple. The cream of British CS and Software Engineering graduates decamp to the US every year. There are good IT jobs here in the UK in finance, defence and the games industry. It's not exactly a desert of opportunities, but there's still a clear imbalance. My daughter is looking at doing a CS or Software Engineering degree and I'm worried if she'll stay in the UK when she graduates, or the opportunities she'd be giving up if she doesn't. California is nice to visit, I suppose.