Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?

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Post by kongolongo » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 1:06 PM UTC

feet wrote: post #257

kongolongo wrote: post #256

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You can't judge how much of a burden healthcare costs are unless you account for how much of a person's income or some proxy of it healthcare is. Just saying that the US spends more per capita than other OECD countries doesn't say anything without more context. IF you want to show that the healthcare spending isn't efficient in the US you have to at least show that it's not just because everything costs more there or…

It spends more per capita with worse outcomes That's the point, where is that extra spending going? What good is it doing? Why is any other question the topic of discussion?

You haven't shown its extra spending with just that one stat. Does $50 USD buy you the same things in the US as $50 USD in Venezuela?

Re: Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?

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Post by ots » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 1:19 PM UTC

I'm an European IT professional who lives on the East Coast for more than a decade. You for sure can find 6-12 months gigs, but my experience is that it will take time to find the good ones, that pay well and don't treat their contractors as second class citizens. You need to build a network and that may take years. Also ageism in IT industry exists. For people over 50 the expectation is one to be in the management or maybe in very niche industry that has high demand for IT professionals. I think your quality of life will go south in NJ. You should look into this from many angles and payment is only one of them.

Re: Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?

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Post by feet » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 4:47 PM UTC

kongolongo wrote: post #271

feet wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It spends more per capita with worse outcomes That's the point, where is that extra spending going? What good is it doing? Why is any other question the topic of discussion?

You haven't shown its extra spending with just that one stat. Does $50 USD buy you the same things in the US as $50 USD in Venezuela?

That's exactly what I'm talking about, it doesn't. Why not?

Does Venezuela have a bunch of leeching middlemen at every possible point in their systems due to the massive push for privatization?

Re: Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?

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Post by helloworld11 » Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 11:51 AM UTC

guerrilla wrote: post #84

binarymax wrote: post #80

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I find it hilarious that you think I’m freaking out. I’m laying in bed listening to the birds chirp, trying to provide some level commentary. I read the top comment and chuckled hard. It’s not even close to real. Social media is amplifying some really skewed info. Try living here, it’s beautiful.

I lived there half my life. It's a wasteland in comparison. That's how I know from first-hand experience and immersion in both sets of media that this isn't about "skewed info" but a complete lack of info for some people who have never lived somewhere they're comparing their country with. This guy is asking about where to go be old, which is a real thing that's going to effect his life... to me going back to the US a…

first hand experience = anecdote, which in turn means it's a completely,m worthlessly unreliable indicator of a general factual and statistical situation. You're confusing your specific impression from your life in a very tiny part of the vast tapestry that is the United States with a massive generalization that you claim is factual. Anyone here claiming that the Americans suffer from X or Y awful thing at absurd levels should actually try backing it up with a link or two to hard data that shows how much more these bad things apply to Americans than they do to those living in the (apparently) European paradise. As one comment a bit further down notes (no link to a source but at least they make a statistical claim) French people are on average among the world's biggest users of psych medication.