As someone from the US, if researchers, scientists etc. want to leave, I’d much rather they go to countries who will actually value the work they do so this ain’t all bad
Anecdotally almost all the people who went to the states after graduating my compsci degree (about 40% of my cohort) have come back now. One guy in my cohort died in a firefight with ICE, it just isn’t safe.
A friend of mine at Tufts was telling me about their ML/comp sco programs falling apart. She’s doing her PhD and was handed a project previously led by a green card holder who fucked off (because yeah why would you stay in a place that clearly doesn’t want you??). Now she’s left managing expectations for a project she didn’t write the codebase for.
And that was BEFORE the recent disappearing of a Tufts student earlier this week.
I’m a productive SWE at a big tech firm and I’m looking pretty seriously at offices in Canada. Better than hoping I don’t get abducted because my voter registration has (D) on it.
I’m a productive SWE at a big tech firm and I’m looking pretty seriously at offices in Canada.
Come. We need more progressives in technology. You might feel the pay cut but it’s so worth imo
Good to hear, I’ve honestly been wondering how US folks would be received moving to Canada.
Various estimates do put me at nearly a 50% pay cut. Which, if the CoL doesn’t scale down at least a little bit, could actually put me in a bit of a bind when supporting my wife as well.
That’s if I could actually convince her to consider it, though.
The transition is taking a lot longer than I predicted in 2000, but I’m still convinced the future of American workers will be hand-painting plastic happy meal toys for fast-food restaurants in China.
This is a fantastic opportunity for Canada
Its funny that the “I’ll move the canada” thing is actually becoming real.
