Re:I’m leaving London for NYC and taking my tech startup
by kranke155 on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @12:20PM
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Nope. Eastern European brilliant minds would flock to London and get paid far lower salaries than they were worth. Ukranians, Lithuanians. The legacy of communist math is alive and well - they were generally better than any western european talent you could get and cheaper. They would always get the top jobs, but the regular influx of new blood meant salaries were stuck.
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Re:I’m leaving London for NYC and taking my tech startup
by wrinkl3 on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @06:07AM
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But Brexit hasn't really changed that - most of Eastern Europeans you're describing aren't EU citizens and needed work visas even before Brexit.
Re:I’m leaving London for NYC and taking my tech startup
by kranke155 on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @06:31AM
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Baltic countries. Romania, Bulgaria. There was a lot of talent available from the old Iron Curtain. The only example I can think of were Ukrainians and Bielorussians and even then I met a few people from Belarus.