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> Not everybody wants to leave their country for more money We're not talking about $100. We're talking about orders of magnitudes of your salary. That's a shi

> Not everybody wants to leave their country for more money We're not talking about $100. We're talking about orders of magnitudes of your salary. That's a shitload of money. When you start getting into magnitudes of money like that, things like nationalities and being close to your family become extremely malleable. If you wouldn't make that choice: great. I would, and I would bet a sizeable majority of people would be totally willing to move to another country to make 100x their current salary.

eropple 12y ago
Hell, I'd move to Antarctica to make 100x my current salary. I'd even consider Arkansas.
- mod 12y ago
  As an Arkansan, I'm taking a little offense. And I'm not a native, either--I grew up in Florida. This is the most beautiful state I've seen. I love it.
notahacker 12y ago
The financial disparity looks rather less clear-cut when you talk about how you get to actually spend the money though. If your $12k a year pays for you and your family to live in a spacious villa, and a full time nanny for the kids whilst still leaving enough left over to be able to save up for a biannual new MacBook, you're going to get a rude shock when you realise what $120,000 before tax actually means in San Francisco, especially if you don't intend to leave the family behind. In that context, staying at home suddenly looks a lot more attractive, especially if you're aware of just how rich by local standards you'll be if you manage to build enough reputation as a remote contractor to triple your rates in future.
- thewarrior 12y ago
  $12k doesn't go that far. Maybe $25k ;)
LordKano 12y ago
Perhaps to westerners and perhaps to you. To other people, that is not necessarily always the case. For example, my family has lived in the city where I reside for less than 100 years. This is my home but it's not my ancestral home. If I were from India, if my family had a connection to an area that went back hundreds or possibly even thousands of years to a region, if I could live similarly to how I live here on the kind of salary the job pays there, I wouldn't be in a big rush to leave either. Would I leave this area to make 10x what I earn now? Probably. If I left for 5-10 years, I could come back and retire. Is there any pressing or burning need? No. Not at all. Even though I could be persuaded to go somewhere else, there are still limits to where I'd go. I wouldn't move to North Korea, even to make 20x my current income. I wouldn't move to any of the former Soviet republics. I wouldn't move to most of Central or South America. I wouldn't move to most of Africa. I get it, for you, most of these concerns are trivial but that's simply not the case for a lot of people.
rkv328 12y ago
I would love to know where you can outsource things for 100X less than US? Two more things, what about cost of living? and do you know how tough it is to get an H1B unless you have studied in US. (my guess, no!)

eropple 12y ago

Hell, I'd move to Antarctica to make 100x my current salary. I'd even consider Arkansas.

mod 12y ago
As an Arkansan, I'm taking a little offense. And I'm not a native, either--I grew up in Florida. This is the most beautiful state I've seen. I love it.

notahacker 12y ago

The financial disparity looks rather less clear-cut when you talk about how you get to actually spend the money though. If your $12k a year pays for you and your family to live in a spacious villa, and a full time nanny for the kids whilst still leaving enough left over to be able to save up for a biannual new MacBook, you're going to get a rude shock when you realise what $120,000 before tax actually means in San Francisco, especially if you don't intend to leave the family behind. In that context, staying at home suddenly looks a lot more attractive, especially if you're aware of just how rich by local standards you'll be if you manage to build enough reputation as a remote contractor to triple your rates in future.

thewarrior 12y ago
$12k doesn't go that far. Maybe $25k ;)

LordKano 12y ago

Perhaps to westerners and perhaps to you. To other people, that is not necessarily always the case. For example, my family has lived in the city where I reside for less than 100 years. This is my home but it's not my ancestral home. If I were from India, if my family had a connection to an area that went back hundreds or possibly even thousands of years to a region, if I could live similarly to how I live here on the kind of salary the job pays there, I wouldn't be in a big rush to leave either. Would I leave this area to make 10x what I earn now? Probably. If I left for 5-10 years, I could come back and retire. Is there any pressing or burning need? No. Not at all. Even though I could be persuaded to go somewhere else, there are still limits to where I'd go. I wouldn't move to North Korea, even to make 20x my current income. I wouldn't move to any of the former Soviet republics. I wouldn't move to most of Central or South America. I wouldn't move to most of Africa. I get it, for you, most of these concerns are trivial but that's simply not the case for a lot of people.

rkv328 12y ago

I would love to know where you can outsource things for 100X less than US? Two more things, what about cost of living? and do you know how tough it is to get an H1B unless you have studied in US. (my guess, no!)