Budapest, in Hungary? You might wanna look up Viktor Orban before moving to there.

If you're British you can roam freely through the EU. I can recommend Germany instead: strong privacy laws, and due to recent history (WWI, WWII, Cold War) there is a relative strong pro privacy mindset. Though I recommend learning German if you intend to settle in large cities such as Berlin and international companies or IT you can easily get away with English.

> If you're British you can roam freely through the EU.

Unfortunately it doesn’t seem likely that this will last much longer, unless the UK makes a u-turn on brexit.

Fair enough, gonna depend on the deal though. I really doubt UK civilians living in Germany are going to get kicked out to UK. That'd be so counterproductive for self employed people...

I'll do just that (re, Viktor), thank you.

Well if you are Australian you are fcuked everywhere. What company is going to want to hire a Australian developer who can be pressured into secretly inserting a backdoor into your software?

The same company that would outsource IT to India?

Really terrible companies, in short.

Every major tech company has workers in India.

At one point, I worked on a lawsuit involving a firm that had entirely outsourced its IT to India. There was literally nobody left in the US who knew how stuff worked. I don't know, in retrospect, whether that was pathetic, or utterly clever.

The long term results finally catching up to the short term thinking?

Wonder if whoever did the initial short term "lets outsource it!" thinking had moved on by the stage the lawsuit happened?

I was working for people who were suing them, so mainly it created problems in discovery. Compelling testimony of non-citizens/non-residents was a lot harder, I gather.

Well, I'm a British Citizen who got an Australian citizenship.

I guess I'll forfeit them both and just... go some where else?

You can still travel and work across europe for now, as long as a brexit deal is reached. You have a fine startup scene in the baltic, crazy startup in Paris and Berlin (tbh, it'll be easier in germany right now), you have really professinnal, interesting companies in the Netherlands, Lille or Hambourg if your thing is devops/non-web dev. With the AI4EU project, you can also land a job building tools for machine learning[1]. We have plenty of oportunities here.

[1] Honestly, it'll mostly be integrating different ML opensource solutions together and maybe some FOSS contribution from what i've seen.

Well Captain Nemo, I have heard this part of the story before...

To the seas!

How do they like living and working in Budapest ?

They fucking love it. The work is occasionally sparse, they've expressed it's not some where to raise their family but as couples/single income workers, they wouldn't trade it for the world.

Edit: typo, spare=sparse.

In the US the NSA can ask you to do the same thing.