Note: talking about complete immigration, want to settle somewhere.
Let’s say you have a really nice job in Europe, some of the following, around L4 level:
- London, Facebook, around $160k TC
- Zurich, Google, $230k TC
- Germany, Google, $160k TC
In contrast, you have an opportunity to move to California or Seattle and earn more in FANG.
Would you consider making the move? Why and why not? Is that extra $$ worth it, given that:
Europe Pros:
- proximity to my home country in better in Europe
- don’t need to deal with immigration overhead for my fiancée
- almost free education and healthcare (not necessarily better, probably worse actually)
- nice PTO
- harder to get laid off
- live a more family-focused life
- travel possibilities
US pros:
I’d say US wins in these aspects:
- salary, savings
- more tech opportunities
- more investment opportunities
- i’m heavily influenced by American culture
- weather in Cali is great
But, Europe cons:
- lower pay
- high taxes in UK or Germany
- language is German in Switzerland and in Germany
- harder to blend in Swiss society
- NHS (healthcare) in UK is okayish at best
- housing in London is crap and expensive
- hate the commute in London
- weather is okay, but not great
- Switzerland basically only has Google as a top employer, everything else is worse than UK and Germany
US cons:
- far away
- traffic because I’d need to drive
- cost of living is huge, but probably reasonable given the huge TC increase
- Seattle weather is ... something
- education is paid and expensive, would need to save up for kids
- honestly not sure if this is valid but I see violence regularly, “defunding the police”, and other things like this, I’m just going to say that Seattle doesn’t seem very safe, in my opinion...
Soooo, what do you say? Europe vs US? Let’s discuss.
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Zurich is good if you have a family and kids. Otherwise boring. However, if you work at Google there, you’re at risk of getting stuck, as it’ll extremely hard to find a company paying the same there.
The USA will get you with money, but you lack everything else. Security, Education, Healthcare, Cultural differences, etc.
I really like London. It sucks to be paid way less than US colleagues, but you can live a great life without the US cons.
I'm going to guess troll or severely intellectually challenged.
(You only discover this after you’ve lived in both places for 1+ year)
For Microsoft, I’m not sure. Could you tell us how many SWEs are there? Or is it specialty office, just like FB’s oculus?