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My employer is a multinational engineering firm.

I travel to the UK, France, and Germany multiple times per year to meet with customers and suppliers.

If you add up funding my own retirement, paying for my private health insurance, paying for my kids to go to (state) university, having to have two evil automobiles, and paying the electric bill on my palatial manor (4-bdrm rancher with garage shed and large backyard), and subtract all of those expenses from my income I >>>STILL<<< make so much more money than anyone sitting across the table from me in Europe that I might as well be Mansa Musa the Golden King of Mali and them a homeless bum starving to death under a bridge.

It is my impression that most of the people moving to the EU are "entrepreneurs" with app ideas or "digital nomads" who want to run a social media campaign from MacBook in a cafe while engineers and scientists who want to work on cool stuff and have labs with a budget big enough to buy test gear and do something keep trying to score a US visa.

parent snakeyjake 1 year ago

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