The US is weird, I don’t want my kids to be American.
Don’t get me wrong y’all are nice and I like you. I have a good time here.
But your country is not that confortable. Weird city built around cars. Scary stuff. Nature is still great but rural town are depressing and built around a highway.
This feeling is often shared across my fellow qualified migrant friends from various places.
The one who are adamant about staying have a very broken country of origin.
Yet when we became a couple, we opted to settle in his country, not mine. My quality of life improved when I moved away.
The US is a lovely place to visit. We go as often as we can. But it's not a good place to raise a family and grow old.
That justify the insane salary difference alone. The amount you absolutely have to stash away to guarantee your own future safety is impressive.
If you drive through any city in the US, as compared to major modern cities around the world, while all cities have their problems, US cities and towns are downright ghetto very large fast-food plastic chain stores.
Social services are a joke, politicians are a joke, transportation is a joke, etc.
Unfortunately that is most of the world.
Most people who complain about vocally about life in the US tend to be financially stable expats from western Europe or equally developed nation, not India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, etc.
But maybe they can flip that with the help of China?
Just a about all my Chinese American colleagues love going to China for vacations and quite a few plan to retire there due to the lower cost of living.
Every time I see this sentiment, all I hear is that people genuinely think a nation is just an amorphous blob of biological entities all interchangeably conducting “economic activity”. If there aren’t enough people here who can do the work, or there are but they don’t want to because of pay or something else, we should address those actual problems. The other thing that I attach to sentiments like yours is that higher education in the United States is a completely fraudulent industry. It utterly fails at educating and preparing its own people for the kinds of jobs we need done in the 21st century, and yet the solution somehow is to bring other people in to attend those same schools and universities.
The United States is not just an economic zone that functions as a means to an end. Imagining that turning it into one is actually good is a deeply misguided approach to solving a very real problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZ-tZTy1Dg&t=487s
The three companies set up R&D centers in the United States. There, they aggressively recruited American-trained Korean talents with Korean nationalism and insanely high salaries. In some cases, semiconductor engineers were paid salaries over three times as high as Chairman Lee's. Goldstar and Hyundai did the same too. Collectively, the three companies invested a billion USD into their American efforts to acquire modern technology, train their staff, and coordinate with potential partners.
Given that TSMC's founder was a Taiwanese immigrant educated and trained in the US, we can take a good guess at how the GPs proposal would turn out.
Unions object to plans by TSMC to bring workers
from Taiwan to speed up work on new facilities.
On the other hand, unlike in 19th century, now Asia might offer, say, 50-70M willing skilled workers and people with advanced degrees in technology. Such an influx would be very noticeable, to say the least, in many areas of daily life. Such changes should not be approached too lightly.
With that, the length it currently takes for an Indian national to obtain a green card is ridiculous.