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Comment by mooreds | Hacker News Reader

Wonder if it has anything to do with low salaries?

Just as an example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12017439 has a pretty low salary for the skills they want.

I don't think so.. Most of my friends left Spain looking for better long term opportunities rather than money. Even if our economy (and politicians) sucks, quality of life is pretty high with those salaries.

I think the problem is the polarisation in the population. Very well trained people is leaving the country while non-skilled people remain.

Skilled people do not trust the system therefore they leave as soon as they can.

Quality of life is high, but what if you have a long term goal of moving? Making a lower wage even if proportionally you're taking home more money has a break even point, and 35k in Spain doesn't hit it.

Totally agree, i wasn't defending low salaries at all, just sharing my insider experience of the reasons why people is leaving Spain.

"We recently raised $1m and want to exploit you by paying you 1/6 of what we would have to pay talent in the US or most of the rest of the EU."

It definitely has to do with low salaries: by Spanish standards, I'd say that's a good job offer. Sure, the range advertised is too broad to be useful, but at least there is one; a good one, too, considering that most tech jobs here are on the 18-30k range.

Ironically, that's one of the offers with highest salary brackets I have ever seen in Barcelona.

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