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Yeah. But end goal of engineering is to improve life. You have only 1 life. Europe >>> USA quality of living.

The win-win is to live in Europe but work for an American company as a software dev.

Not really because you'll still get paid a European salary. In fact that's really the worst of both worlds - European salary but American pressure.

Plenty of European devs getting an American salary.

Not in my experience. Which companies pay the same in SV and the UK?

That's not easy with the time zone difference.

That depends on how much you make in the USA. I doubt 300k+ engineers are going to accept 80-120k euros for the same job in Europe. I make around 100k USD working in Norway as a research scientist. I doubt I'm going to be able to increase my salary anymore than that in my current job. Maybe I could get more managing an industrial lab.

> Yeah. But end goal of engineering is to improve life.

Nope. The end goal of my engineering is to build meaningful products that improve other people’s lives.

But sure, with your attitude to work you’ll do fine in Europe.

The universe was created without my help.

Humanity survived till 21st century without my help.

I am sure the world will do just fine with me working in Europe instead of US.

I am sure it will do fine when I am dead.

I will focus on helping myself as the first priority.

Thanks.

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