The rule of thumb is that engineering and startup talent pool is going to be severely restricted-people will revert to job security at larger corporations due to the depressed wages, especially for engineers.

This was actually a big reason why I turned down the opportunity to do a startup in Asia, there's very few unicorns and exits, and while living standards might be very good in places like Singapore, I felt like it would be hard to find a marketplace like the United States.

Most of my Asian Canadian friends have moved to Shanghai to pursue high tech work and hyping China and frankly I just didn't buy any of that ideological/racial bullshit. At the end of the day, North America still remains a very open and multicultural place (West Coast at least) that makes it easy to do business with a diverse group of people which is far more exciting (for me anyways) without having to travel.

Despite Trump, I feel like entering the US market is a far more exciting. I think the US economy will experience another major surge while Russia slowly goes into bankruptcy (again) and China implodes under it's debt/sociopolitical unrest that follows.

I'm doubling down on North America over China & Asia-providing jobs in Canada and United States with the expectation that I will see yuge returns.