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I don't know why these countries do everything to _not_ attract human capital - limitation of 180 days means no-go for me. Maybe I would love to explore a new c

I don't know why these countries do everything to _not_ attract human capital - limitation of 180 days means no-go for me. Maybe I would love to explore a new country for a couple of years, and settle down there with my salary component of ~200k instead of SFBA. But I need my kids to stay at least 1 year in their schools, and 2 years if they like it. And the way to become a resident. It's so easy for them just to attract high-skilled labor everyone is fighting for. But nope, they pretty much say: "We know you're skilled because we have requirement of 90k/year, but we don't want skilled workers to be able to stay here, because go somewhere else". Well, ok, Iceland..

Algemarin 4y ago
> But nope, they pretty much say: "We know you're skilled because we have requirement of 90k/year, but we don't want skilled workers to be able to stay here, because go somewhere else". Well, ok, Iceland.. Correct. It's not a difficult concept to grasp, especially as they are being very overt about it. They don't want foreigners settling into their country. They want foreigners coming in for a short time, pumping money into it, then buggering off.
dopeboy 4y ago
One reason might be that it hurts native high skilled labor, a demographic that probably votes often.
epolanski 4y ago
Because Iceland is part of Schengen, and you need a job in Schengen for long stays. I don't think in US it would be different.