Ask HN: How did you migrate to the country you are living in now?

Cambodia to USA (southern california)

Parent flee the Vietnam fall out, grandfather from my father side died from friendly fire (USA), we supposely got a free ticket to USA if we can flee.

Parent ran from Vietnam, jump around, during Cambodia I was born, they went many places, thai/kham/lao and then Phillipines where my parent and I immigrated to the USA.

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I posted on HN somewhere their stories fleeing. There were a few encounters where they could have died but got lucky. It's pretty neat and crazy. In general, America is a great country I'm glad, they worked hard and got my sister and I to college.

India -> Texas, USA -> Ontario, Canada -> Seattle, USA -> TBD among Japan, Vancouver BC Canada, New Zealand, Australia

Came to US as grad student, stayed, worked, ran out of 6 yr H1B, moved to Canada, worked, started company (flopped), consulting moved back to US, worked, started company (ongoing), consulting.

I get itch to change countries/cities every 10 years or so. Also I want to collect residencies and citizenships. Now thinking of moving to another country most probably Japan, New Zealand, or Australia or settle down for good in Vancouver BC Canada.

Beirut -> Dubai (Sponsored By Local Company 4 Years) -> Beijing (Applied for Big Name Western Multinational 6 Years) -> Vancouver (Immigrated Under Federal Skilled Workers Program) Kudos Canada

Brisbane, Australia -> Asunción, Paraguay

I finished uni in Austalia and moved here to Paraguay a few years ago for a sea change. My father's family are here so I was not absolutely lost. I loved learning a new culture and language.

Scotland -> USA (SF Bay Area).

I finished up a CS degree in Scotland and then applied for several engineer jobs in CA. I interviewed via Skype and got made a job offer (Groupon). Accepted offer and applied for the H1-B visa, and was extremely lucky that the visas didn't run out immediately that year (2011).

The visa process was very straightforward and the interview ultimately felt like a rubber stamping exercise (total anticlimax). It took about 5 months for the visa to become valid, though, so I spent that summer hanging around researching CA on Google maps and wikipedia. Packed up 5 suitcases and got on a plane from Glasgow -> Philadelphia -> SF, having never set foot in CA before.

Hired a car and drove around looking for apartments. Ultimately settled in San Mateo as I had figured out on Google maps it was about half way between Palo Alto (where I was working) and SF (where I anticipated I would want to spend quite a bit of time). Have been here ever since and no plans to move away.

Also made the mistake of shipping some items from Scotland which didn't arrive until 6 months after I did - would not recommend trying that.