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Sure much more money but: No time to enjoy said money No time with your family Extremely easy to get laid off If you are laid off, all your savings can easi
by guappa 1y ago
Sure much more money but:
No time to enjoy said money
No time with your family
Extremely easy to get laid off
If you are laid off, all your savings can easily be used up if you need healthcare, sending you into permanent poverty.
If you consider that a better quality of life… sure… but not everyone likes betting their existence on the lottery.
edit: forgot to mention, if you get laid off you also get quickly deported.
- glimshe 1y agoI had plenty of time and leisure activities throughout my US career. Plenty of money for hobbies, toys and a house. I had the deportation risk while waiting for the Greencard. But I'd happily go back to my birth country with a ton of money if I was deported vs my friends who tried Europe and went back home (due to low Software wages and underemployment in Europe) with nothing to show for it. The vast majority of my US-born and foreign friends in the software field are doing great financially. A few got laid off but had good savings and were eventually hired elsewhere. Even the ones in the West Coast. They had to buy small houses (like the ones in Europe) but they got to do it anyway. I have a few friends who came from the richer parts of Europe. A handful went back, but not most. The ones from the poorer parts of Europe are certainly not going back. Europe is great for the rich, though. Thus a good place to retire if you can afford it. But the same can be said about many parts of the US, so ultimately it's a matter of taste.