We moved to Europe because Silicon Valley is dead. You should too

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> more and more tech professionals are looking east. Way, way east. Over-an-ocean > east. To Europe. > The most well-known is Instagram chief Adam Mosseri, who attempted a London relocation late last year. While he may not have lasted long

LOL

London's not even Europe. Oh well, people refer to Microsoft and Amazon as Silicon Valley too.

Last time I checked, Europe was a continent, and the UK, Brexit notwithstanding, was still part of it —- they may have exited the European Union, but geography is harder.

> From election interference to the reversal of reproductive rights to unresolved racial reckoning — not to speak of the ever-increasing menace of gun violence — the US has become a difficult place to defend.

You know you're in for a treat when this is the first paragraph.

Europe is a big place, actually wouldn't you know, it's a group of heterogenous countries! Some have more election interference than the US, some are more racist, some have more restrictive reproductive rights, and some have more criminality.

I guess you'll have time to learn this now that you're "iN EuRoPe"!

Nope, the EU (27 countries) are quite homogenous under EU-laws. Of course, differences still exist and there and there are cases where national laws are contravened the EU laws, but the supremacy of the EU-laws is in no dispute.

Numerous cases highlight those fact, for example:

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/commission-sues-germany-esca...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germany-france-join-eu-...

Europe != EU

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