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visas are really easy to get in here There are even Russian ppl at the office The whole world is not like the UK or USA, with restrictive and old policies. And

visas are really easy to get in here There are even Russian ppl at the office The whole world is not like the UK or USA, with restrictive and old policies. And your family can get a visa if you get one. Also, paycheck might be lower, but you get public medical healthcare, cheap trains, and more public services than in the USA, so the comfort is about the same in the end. My point was that I don't get why skilled workers from the whole world (like South America, Asia, Africa, the middle east, and even "closed" countries like Russia and China) can move in here when they only speak English at first, while North Americans are never seen. Life can't just about the paycheck or not being ok with learning new languages.

gregjor 4y ago
People generally look for work and immigrate to places with more opportunity, better pay, safety, quality of life. Americans generally don't perceive most other countries as significantly better for them, if they look into moving overseas at all. And we're trapped in a citizenship-based tax system that adds complexity. Unlike Europeans and Asians, Americans can't get to another country by plane or train in a couple of hours. Only about a third of Americans have a passport, and that number only went up fairly recently because after 9/11 we needed passports to go to Canada or Mexico. Personally I live out of the USA most of the time but I work for US companies. Jobs I've seen from foreign companies offer very low salaries compared to the US, and I have yet to freelance for a non-American company because of my US rates. Whether language presents a real barrier or not (my experience as a native English speaker tells me I can get by almost anywhere), Americans perceive language and cultural differences as possible problems, again probably because few Americans travel overseas at all, and when they do they tend to stick to tourist-oriented destinations. Anecdotally I made as many friends from Estonia and Finland as I did Americans, and many more from Germany, France, UK, when I lived in SE Asia. Even in Paris and London Americans seem fairly scarce compared to other nationalities, weird considering the US population compared to that of most other countries.

gregjor 4y ago

People generally look for work and immigrate to places with more opportunity, better pay, safety, quality of life. Americans generally don't perceive most other countries as significantly better for them, if they look into moving overseas at all. And we're trapped in a citizenship-based tax system that adds complexity. Unlike Europeans and Asians, Americans can't get to another country by plane or train in a couple of hours. Only about a third of Americans have a passport, and that number only went up fairly recently because after 9/11 we needed passports to go to Canada or Mexico. Personally I live out of the USA most of the time but I work for US companies. Jobs I've seen from foreign companies offer very low salaries compared to the US, and I have yet to freelance for a non-American company because of my US rates. Whether language presents a real barrier or not (my experience as a native English speaker tells me I can get by almost anywhere), Americans perceive language and cultural differences as possible problems, again probably because few Americans travel overseas at all, and when they do they tend to stick to tourist-oriented destinations. Anecdotally I made as many friends from Estonia and Finland as I did Americans, and many more from Germany, France, UK, when I lived in SE Asia. Even in Paris and London Americans seem fairly scarce compared to other nationalities, weird considering the US population compared to that of most other countries.