cm0002@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 5 days agoSo a US Green Card is half way to the moon?lemmy.caimagemessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up1283arrow-down122file-text
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minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down3·4 days agoIf most places of the world are better, the question still is why the US? She could just used the open borders of the EU and moved by car to an even better place.
minus-squareblockheadjt@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up35arrow-down2·4 days agoBelieve it or not, the US was at one point considered a nice place to live.
minus-squareVitoRobles@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoThey still pay the highest. Unfortunately, the mental cost is catching up.
minus-squareboonhet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-24 days agoEU software engineer here: at least until recently, I would’ve preferred to work in the US too. Significantly better pay. Lady on the photo apparently is an astronaut. I’d wager NASA opportunities at the time were better than ESA. Edit: apparently an “analog” astronaut, so she does practice missions on Earth. Still, probably better opportunities in the US.
minus-squareJankatarch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·4 days agoUS has good advertisement with “the american dream.” And hollywood. Also if you find out that’s bs through asylum you get an electronic bracelet and can’t leave until you after you settled down. So no Canada.
minus-squareidegenszavak@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agoSpace infrastructure is the biggest there. Next may be Russia and China, Russian economy doesn’t look good nowadays and the Chinese language barrier is huge. EU and others are much more behind those 3.
minus-squarelaserm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoThere is also that thing that, unlike Russia or China, US is a democracy
If most places of the world are better, the question still is why the US?
She could just used the open borders of the EU and moved by car to an even better place.
Believe it or not, the US was at one point considered a nice place to live.
They still pay the highest.
Unfortunately, the mental cost is catching up.
EU software engineer here: at least until recently, I would’ve preferred to work in the US too. Significantly better pay.
Lady on the photo apparently is an astronaut. I’d wager NASA opportunities at the time were better than ESA.
Edit: apparently an “analog” astronaut, so she does practice missions on Earth. Still, probably better opportunities in the US.
US has good advertisement with “the american dream.” And hollywood.
Also if you find out that’s bs through asylum you get an electronic bracelet and can’t leave until you after you settled down. So no Canada.
Space infrastructure is the biggest there. Next may be Russia and China, Russian economy doesn’t look good nowadays and the Chinese language barrier is huge. EU and others are much more behind those 3.
There is also that thing that, unlike Russia or China, US is a democracy