Come to Europe. Salaries are (much) lower, but we can use good devs and you'll have vacation days and health care.
They are outsourcing just as much as US Big Tech. And never mind the slow-mo economic collapse of UK, France, and Germany.
As Americans, getting a long-term visa or residency card is not too hard, provided you have a good job. It’s getting the job that’s become more difficult. For other nationalities, it can range from very easy to very hard.
https://finnish.andrew-quinn.me/
... But, no, it's still a very forbidding language.
However salaries are atrocious and local jobs aren't really available to non mandarin speakers. But if you're looking to kick off your remote consulting career or bootstrap some product you wanna build, there's not really anywhere on earth that combines the quality of life with the cost of living like Taiwan does.
You make such a hard bargain.
>there's not really anywhere on earth that combines the quality of life with the cost of living like Taiwan does.
Tempting, but I think the last thing I need for what little work I can grab is to create a 14 hour time zone gap.
Applied to quite a few EU jobs via LinkedIn but nothing came of it- I suspected they wanted people already in EU countries
Both of us are US Citizens but we don't want to retire in the US it seems to be becoming a s*hole esp around healthcare
I'm not sure the claim "we can use good devs" is true from the perspective of European corporations. But would love to learn otherwise?
And of course: where in Europe?
Well, which is it?
>Not to mention the higher taxes for this privilege.
Rampant tax cuts is how we got here to begin with. I don't think the EU wants someone with this mentality anyway.