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The quality of life may be higher for lower middle class or poor people, but not for developers making $150k+ a year with benefits. And most of your points are
by kcb 5y ago
The quality of life may be higher for lower middle class or poor people, but not for developers making $150k+ a year with benefits. And most of your points are just silly or negated by having money.
- lmm 5y agoI've heard so many stories of people with top-tier insurance still going through medical bankruptcies in the US. And while you can pay to mitigate the crime risk in some ways, you can't avoid it entirely without seriously restricting your life. There are upsides to the US, but when I realised that I could never see myself retiring there I realised it made no sense to spend my working life there, even if the salary would be higher.
- trevyn 5y agoCrime risk? Where were you living?
- lmm 5y agoI've lived in various places at various times, what specifically are you asking about?
- trevyn 5y agoI have never experienced what I would call “crime risk” in the US, much less anything that would require “seriously restricting my life”, so I’m curious if you are referring to a particular area, because I’m sure they exist.
- lmm 5y agoI'm thinking of central/downtown New York and San Francisco (most good developer jobs seemed to be in the big cities). I had enough colleagues get mugged (and got pretty aggressively hassled myself) that it was worrying. What I was getting at with the "seriously restricting my life" was that it seemed like the only way to avoid the risk would have been to never go downtown.