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This is absolutely not true. Moving across Europe is significantly harder than in US. On top of that companies hiring across Europe need to go B2B or EoR. The countries are absolutely not harmonised in terms of regulations, labor law or employing people.

I am sorry but you absolutely have no clue what you are talking about.

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Moving across Europe may be harder than moving across the US. But moving across Europe (at least the EU) today is much easier than it was 40 years ago, pre-EU.

It is much easier now but that is not what was sold to the people of the EU.

We were told you could easily move to another country. The fact is that in some case you can and in others you cant.

So on that front, the promise of freedom of movement is if not broken one not reality either.

I agree, it's definitely much easier than it was. But when comparing EU to USA and asking 'why', I think it's extremely important to remember how much less of a single market Europe is than the US/China.

The bureaucracy can be a nightmare. Ironically one of the best country to move to pre-brexit was the UK. I did that without a lawyer. My other moves across EU needed a lawyer to sort out the local applications and required months ahead bookings. I also had all sort of stupid issues which prolonged one immigration situation for 3 years. I complained to the EU the host country was in violation of EU rules and they came back after 2 years saying it was my problem and that the host country was free to do whatever.

The EU is an absolute joke and a bureaucrauts' dream, no wonder our economy shrunk to half the USA's in the last 10 years.

Yes, that was the claim I responded to as well. Non-EU vs EU.

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