I'm curious too. I live in New Zealand. How can I get a software job abroad - say in the United States?
By most accounts you're like in literally the best place on planet earth right now, why would you want to move?
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#172A man was walking along a river bank when he saw another man on the opposite side. "Hello!" he called out, "how do you get to the other side of the river?" The man called out in response, "you are on the other side of the river!"
OP specifically said it was a serious question, so this comes off as patronising..
I didn't think it was patronising;
I think it was just pointing out a semantic flaw in the post: OP forgot to say where he lives, so we don't know what "abroad" is in his case.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP specifically said it was a serious question, so this comes off as patronising..
I didn't think it was patronising; I think it was just pointing out a semantic flaw in the post: OP forgot to say where he lives, so we don't know what "abroad" is in his case.
Fair point. I inferred OP was in the US, considering the US election that just ended and people were jokingly talking about leaving the country[1] to other places.
[1]: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-s-immigration-website-cr...
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about the language barrier? Would English be enough?
I am from Sweden and basically everyone here (except some immigrants) speak english very fluently. You would have no issues living in any Nordic country with only English. I worked at a pretty international company before where there was several individuals whom had lived in Sweden for several years without even bothering to learn the language. Don't be that guy or gal though, Swedes don't like it when you live here…
I've been strongly considering moving since spending a semester abroad. Any potential employers or leads you think I should consider? Email's in profile so feel free to pm
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Hey I'm moving at Gothenburg around end of November, anything should i consider?
Don't move to the ghetto. I don't know what places are bad to live in Gothenburg but I am sure you can look it up. But regarding employers, I don't know that many in Gothenburg but you could look up Fast2 maybe?
Parts of Gothemburg is actually bad I understand.
Even police refuse to go there.
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Would you be willing to write a general post on it? I don't agree or disagree with the idea of emigrating due to the election but it would be engaging to read - I don't see much stuff from people moving that direction.
I've currently got a draft of it 1/3rd done. But I am better at talking and answering questions than at writing.
Well if you ever finish it, please be sure to post it here!
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#177Are there any country outside U.S. that pay more for software job? I've looked before, but I didn't find any, so you'll have to figure out a way to quantify quality of live improvement in dollar figures.
Expect to be paid less but that money will go further - e.g. if comparing with Silicon Valley, there are many places worldwide where you'll be able to afford a much larger, nicer home and more services while earning a much smaller dollar amount.
In general, there's a scale/tradeoff of this, and California is on one extreme of that scale - there won't be any country that will pay even more, with the possible exception of some Saudi contracts or similar niches.
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#178I was able to find a job rather quickly on berlinstartupjobs.com if you'd like to consider Germany as an option.
Germany is a rather good option for working abroad as getting a visa is pretty easy if you have a college degree and make a certain amount of money. They're pretty liberal about handing out something called the EU Blue Card. That's what I had when I was over there. You don't even need to do anything before you get there. All the paperwork happens when you're in the country. The trickiest part of the whole process is making sure you end up at a place when you get there that you can register at with the local government as you have to show your registration confirmation as part of the Blue Card process. If you can get registered and receive mail wherever you stay initially everything is pretty easy.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am from Sweden and basically everyone here (except some immigrants) speak english very fluently. You would have no issues living in any Nordic country with only English. I worked at a pretty international company before where there was several individuals whom had lived in Sweden for several years without even bothering to learn the language. Don't be that guy or gal though, Swedes don't like it when you live here…
I've been strongly considering moving since spending a semester abroad. Any potential employers or leads you think I should consider? Email's in profile so feel free to pm
You can check some work at https://www.uptrail.com/ for example.
I am actually in the making of a swedish job site for developers. But you will have to wait for that one though.
Otherwise, you can search for your language of choice at https://www.arbetsformedlingen.se/. I am sure lots of jobs will turn up, at least in Stockholm. What you want to do is probably to use Google Translate on that webpage or something because their english version sucks ass.
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"Compared to the Bay Area you'll pay 1/2-1/4th of the rent/mortgage and soon 1 EUR will be 2 USD" 1 Euro is currently ~ $1.10 US. Are you being facetious? I agree with you on everything else though. Everything in Berlin seems reasonably priced. And it seems like a good quality of life there for a city. People seem pretty relaxed.
I believe US election results will have consequences for USD...
I actually have some money in Germany that I was waiting to bring back until after the election, hoping for a Trump win and a collapse of the Dollar relative to the Euro, but some of the stuff I've read suggests that it might actual do better? I don't know...it's all a little confusing to me.