Salaries are lower, taxes and cost of living are relatively high. Companies are much more reluctant to hire because of how difficult it is to let people go. For

Salaries are lower, taxes and cost of living are relatively high. Companies are much more reluctant to hire because of how difficult it is to let people go. For larger companies, you need credentials to have a good chance at being hired. Outside of (expensive) metropolitan areas, English isn't too easy to get by with (forget about handling bureaucratic tasks in English). Can be good if you're fine with that, but it's definitely not as rosy as you make it out to be. And it's also not everyone's cup of tea to work in technologically underdeveloped economies and deal with fax machines.