• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    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.

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      12 hours ago

      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.

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      14 hours ago

      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.

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      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.