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Re:AI.gov by layer8 on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:23PM (#38073533)

At the same time, moving to the US is unattractive for a significant portion of the talent (not the least due to the US’ socio-cultural-political climate), and working remotely for a US company comes with its own difficulties.

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Re:AI.gov by ibejoeb on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:44PM (#38073861)

There is unbridled immigration to the US. I truly can't think of a cohort for which the US is unattractive.

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Re:AI.gov by antisthenes on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:51PM (#38073962)

There are definitely small ideological, well-off pockets of Europeans, who enjoy living in high safety net countries and don't really want to trade one developed country for another.

They don't necessarily have the skills to draw high US tech salaries either.

But for the vast majority, like you said, the US is extremely attractive.

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Re:AI.gov by jltsiren on Monday October 30, 2023 @04:50PM (#38075589)

North/West European middle class, for example.

I'm from Finland myself, I've been living in the US for some years, and I have no concrete plans to return. I've known many Finns who have tried the same, but most of them have returned to Finland, or at least to Europe. Most of them are highly educated professionals. It turns out the difference in standard of living is not that large. For most people, living closer to family and friends is more important. If they find a decent opportunity closer to home, they usually take it.

You can see the same effect with Finnish nurses. They could improve their standard of living significantly by moving to Norway. Probably more than software engineers moving to the US. It would be easy, because Norway is close, the culture is pretty similar, and Finnish citizens have a subjective right to live and work there. But few people actually do that.

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Re:AI.gov by paulddraper on Monday October 30, 2023 @05:25PM (#38076116)

Fair enough. I'd hate move an hour away, let alone to another country.

But for anyone that is able/willing to move....

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Re:AI.gov by userabchn on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:54PM (#38074001)

I suggest that a substantial portion of that "socio-cultural-political climate" is due to foreign influence operations trying to amplify division for this purpose.

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Re:AI.gov by tsunamifury on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:13PM (#38074288)

Haha this is such a globally out of touch statement. Yes a few European nations enjoy a much better quality of life while looking down their noses at the rest of us, blocking immigration, and generally being xenophobic.

And it’s not like the climate in Europe isn’t verging on ethno fascism in several major state…

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