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I think this is great news for countries like Canada and UK.

It is incredible to me that there are hundreds of US-centric comments and yours is the only one I saw who recognized the benefit for basically every other country people want to live and work in.

> Canada

It's not doing really well though, COL is sky high, and wages are low.

And I've talked to a few Canadians, despite the Liberal party winning, there is real push for Canada to severely restrict immigration and that is currently happening.

As far as I can tell, the push against immigration in Canada is mainly around unskilled workers (which a lot of TFW are) and asylum seekers, but we will see how this pans out.

They're just turning the knob down a little bit because it was pretty high last few years and caused some supply side issues in housing and healthcare.

I'm sure Canada will gladly accept highly skilled engineers.

The push back against immigration is against the way it was exploited by scammers to exploit people and make money from them.

The sort of high educated immigrants of the sort that would work in software engineering will not face remarkable headwinds.

Not for tech workers from these countries though.

If more jobs are created in these countries, it doesn't mean the local tech workers will be replaced.

it doesn't mean the local tech workers will be replaced.

You're right because that totally didn't happen to varying degrees in various industries in the US...

Without foreign workers, there may not even be big US tech companies as we know them. I really wish we could have these talents in Europe to boost our economy. This would create more jobs and more wealth ultimately.

We have the talent in Europe, they are just paid peanuts. If moving to the US was not an option, the balance on the labour market would be even worse (for the said talent).

Hardly, the Indian government weaponises their diaspora in the same way China does.

They already pay 50%-70% less there than in America. Not much juice left to squeeze.

UK is insanely hard to immigrate to. Canada is getting more and more difficult by the day.

This insanity seems collective.

> Canada is getting more difficult

How so?

UK is not hard to immigrate to. You just need to pay a heft sum for the visa and NHS surcharge.

Seriously as someone with no interest in moving to the USA this is fantastic news.

Open up studios in British Columbia and hire the relatively cheaper labour. It's on the same time zone as Silicon Valley. It's a no brainer.

Oh no, Canada, don't take my low-paid, equally-skilled and desperate-to-stay-at-one-company competition from me! /s

haha so true

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