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There are more people moving from America to Ireland than Irish moving to America. (www.bbc.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 54 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Why the fook would you move to a third world shit hole country on purpose???

Seriously. Don't move to the US right now.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I recently knew two people who came to the US recently.

    One was from India, and he came for the money. He has a low six figure job as a "product manager" and the CEO's toady. He's quite ignorant of US politics and history, so he's not really concerned.

    The other came from canada, but also has EU residency (or citizenship? unclear). He said he makes more money here. He's making mid six figures as a software engineer at a startup, with poor work/life balance. He can always leave, since his parents own a house in germany.

    Neither were coming here like an old timey tale of immigrants trying to find a better life.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    I mean, wasn't the old time reasons for coming mostly about "money"?

    I feel like we tend to sorta play up the migrations from the past. I'm sure, especially earlier in history, there were more people looking for some type of freedom, but lots of people migrated for "opportunity".

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    its because they can flee if things get bad, indians are likely wanted in other countries as well so its little loss. Its just the high income that draws them here. indians that are migrating that arnt coming from money or not in tech might have more problems.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    Depending on your field, pay. Where else do software engineers make around 200k?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    That number is completely meaningless, as it does not include cost of living. Especially health insurance and lack thereof

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    It's definitely not meaningless.

    You can take 200,000 for a few years, and go back and ruin your old local housing market.

    That said - this comment aged like milk. CS is not a great career to be in rn thanks to AI

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