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Re: Ask HN: Any good resources for finding software jobs abroad?

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Post by koide »

wallzz wrote: post #209
simonswords82 wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you been to any other European cities at all for comparison? For example I think Barcelona is a very clean and welcoming city, so is Amsterdam come to think of it.

I have been to Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, Oslo ..Barcelona is a nice city, but it has the disadvantage of big cities.

In my experience, Nordic people are extremely polite, but not really welcoming. They do not actually care about you as a human being, they just care about a nice, polite interchange. Going from that politeness to something more is hard. YMMV.

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Post by et-al »

groundshop wrote: post #213
et-al wrote: post #204

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> The US is experiencing a wave of xenophobia and outright hate right now. Were there actually any reported hate crimes, or is this just rumors and confirmation bias? People are definitely on edge today, but I felt it more from the Clinton supporters. (I know of the swastika graffiti in Philly, but that could have been from either side.)

My wife is an instructor at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Yesterday all faculty/staff/students got an email about a girl who was assaulted. She was walking down a street close to the university. Two white men (one in a Trump hat) pulled up next to her in a car, hopped out, hit her over the head with something then stole her hijab and wallet. http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/crime/2016/11/09/ul-...

Apparently the link now shows the story to be fabricated by the victim. :\

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Post by benlambert »

mundo wrote: post #167
benlambert wrote: post #95

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Last time I checked Trump was running on a pro LGBT platform...

The reason you see people concerned about this is because most people assume Trump will defer to his VP on most policy stuff, and his VP is very, very anti-gay. The reason people assume this is that one of the other people considered to be his VP pick, John Kasich, told the press that when Trump's son pitched the job, he said that he could be "the most powerful vice-president in history" and that he would be in charg…

Why would Trump go to all the effort of running for POTUS only to put his VP in charge? That doesn't make any sense.

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Post by benlambert »

bobwaycott wrote: post #145
benlambert wrote: post #95

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Last time I checked Trump was running on a pro LGBT platform...

It seems that message was lost on his supporters. I've seen scant evidence in interviews, polling, or personal interactions to indicate this pro-LGBTQ stance is shared.

No doubt. The Republicans have always been anti-gay. It's just that Trump done more than anyone ever has to bring them around on this issue.

I'll never forget the cheering and applause Thiel got from Republicans when he announced he was proud to be gay at the RNC. That was a pretty special moment.

He has a long record of being pro-LGBT and if he was going to backtrack on that to appease his supporters he would have done it before the election, not now after he already has their votes.

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Post by mlent »

I have written a bit about working abroad, working remotely from abroad, and how to emigrate to germany and finding jobs in Berlin. Let me know if you find any of this information useful!

http://notanomadblog.com/categories/work-abroad/

Specifically, this posts on working remotely from abroad, but most of the resources listed also have jobs in-person, too.

http://notanomadblog.com/how-to-move-abroad-by-working-remot...

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Post by snowcrshd »

Johnny_Brahms wrote: post #96
dzhiurgis wrote: post #86

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Looking at the brackets in original post it's mostly Lisp

I know it was a joke, but we might actually be hiring someone to do scheme development (in Sweden, not Norway). We started as a mostly delphi shop doing software for smaller private healthcare businesses. Most of our internal tooling evolved started as one-off scripts I wrote in guile. Our business grew to deliver huge installations on tens of thousands of computers, and our internal tooling grew as well. We have wel…

This looks pretty interesting. Would you have a jobs listing page somewhere?

I've dabbled in scheme, though I'm most proficient at Clojure.

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Post by snowcrshd »

mattnumbe wrote: post #3

I recruit in Japan and we use DaiJob, Indeed, and GaijinPot. There are also quite a few on linkedIn (they seem to pay a lot better as well)

How difficult would it be to get a job in Japan without knowing the language?

It must be imperative in daily life, but how about in the work environment?

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Post by sctb »

Sanddancer wrote: post #20

From the depths of my heart, Fuck You. There are millions of us out there who can't leave. People of color, disabled people, co-workers, friends, family, loved ones. Leaving is failure. Leaving is cowardice. Leaving is making sure that those millions of people who aren't as privileged as you have even less of a chance to fix things. Do you really want your legacy to have been abandoning the US? Or do you want to actu…

> From the depths of my heart, Fuck You.

You can't behave like this to other community members on Hacker News, no matter what's going on and no matter what they say.

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Post by drumdance »

chill1 wrote: post #90

You could try freelance work for clients remotely. That would give you a lot of freedom to choose where to live. I am an American living, working (as a freelance programmer) in Czech Republic -- good economy (especially Prague), low crime rate, low cost of living. Happy to answer questions.

Just curious, what's your rate in Prague? Is it a comparable bargain for US companies to hire you?

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Post by drumdance »

lacampbell wrote: post #219
tedmiston wrote: post #214

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That's kind of my point! The arbitrage of working for a company in a US tech hub while living outside of a US tech hub. It could be done living domestically here too, but abroad is more interesting. (However, given the discussion, maybe this is just a case of "the grass is always greener on the other side".)

I am not being clear. Why live in an NZ city of 200,000 when you could live in an American one of the same size and enjoy a lower cost of living, and cheaper rent?

You're not going to find anything near as beautiful in the US for a decent cost of living. I would move to Wellington in a heartbeat if I could. Imagine San Francisco without all the traffic and homelessness.
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