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UK is unbelievably fucked. Real wages have collapsed since the last recession, now they're collapsing even further, and the Bank of England want everybody to just accept this and not ask for payrises. The middle class in the UK is evaporating.

I've long been considering leaving. I'm tired of feeding this system a significant chunk of my salary and getting nothing back.

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We have a lot of UK expats at the shop, apparently it's very easy to poach the equivalent of MIT grads and some YOE with a wage that's barely above an intern over here...

I don't understand it either.

I hate how accurate this is. Imagine you are a UK resident, born and raised, who went to the UK’s top school for CS (4-year degree). You made American friends at university who later moved back home.

15 YOE down the road and you are making $80k as a good senior SWE. You are absolutely bewildered that your American friends who you studied with make comfortably double that.

Make it make sense.

Double? More like Triple.

My employer is now struggling to outsource our jobs to Europe because the prices are too high. I try not to think about it too much, but a move to Ireland looks enticing.

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