Re:Ask HN: Do you like working in San Francisco?
by cylinder on Saturday June 15, 2019 @07:23AM
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For those Americans considering moving to SF or NYC from somewhere else in the US as an experience, I'd recommend instead trying to live and work somewhere in Europe. I say this as someone who did five years in NYC. It's just not as exotic of an experience as you think and the lifestyle sucks without huge money. I live abroad now but wish I could have tried Europe.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you like working in San Francisco?
by snicky on Saturday June 15, 2019 @11:21AM
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It seems grass is always greener on the other side. I'm from Eastern Europe and work remotely for a Western European company which is very beneficial from the financial point of view. Schengen Agreement makes it also very convenient to travel around and stay in different countries from time to time.
I do, however, always feel like the actual place to be for tech experts is USA. The European market seems too fragmented and too conservative. The VC money just doesn't seem to be there and most tech companies never grow that big as on the other side of the pond. I would love to spend some time in US, be it in SV, NYC or some other tech hub, but I don't really want to go through all the immigration hassle if I can pick any of the EU countries and just move there whenever I wish...