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Re:‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student menta... by raverbashing on Sunday March 17, 2019 @04:19AM (#19412882)
> TLDR China is about as attractive as any other country on the planet, they just have subpar image management and PR at the moment

Cool, why haven't you moved there?

Re:‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student menta... by digitalixus on Sunday March 17, 2019 @04:30AM (#19412920)
I moved to Germany in the dark days when I was gullible to believe the propaganda across the internet that "Germany = The 1st world that's better than America" only to arrive and discover 99% of the stuff you see in comments sections about how "Germany is superior to [US/China/UK]" is bullshit.

That said, I made my bed and I'll lie in it for a while. Already looking at options for where to move, but I wasn't about to move my life here and ragequit after 1-2 years like most people do (the type of person that moves here seems to not care very much about the financial and stress cost of moving internationally, how ~1 year of work on their resume + 6 months jobless looks bad on their resume, etc)

Maybe not China, salaries and high-tech life there sound appealing but the firewalled internets is a big turn-off, but definitely not remaining in Germany now that I've done enough time.

Re:‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student menta... by raverbashing on Sunday March 17, 2019 @06:23AM (#19413272)
I agree with some of your assessments about Germany but not to the point that I would consider "fake" or "propaganda".

Especially the "public transport is slow/expensive" part. It seems it's one of the best (in the western hemisphere at least) and that even compared with NYC/Montreal/Toronto.

(But of course YMMV)

Re:‘A toxic culture of overwork’: The graduate student menta... by dragos1984 on Sunday March 17, 2019 @04:35AM (#19412934)
Why would he move there? He said thst its the same as any other country, not that its better