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The weather is definitely not for everyone. For the whole package to be attractive I think you need to weigh in the whole package with long holidays, parental leave, walkable cities, good work-life balance, cheap childcare and so on. It’s definitely not the place to go to work 3 years then buy a sports car. It’s a good place to go if you feel ready to switch a pay cut for a different style of life if you just had a couple of young kids perhaps.


> walkable cities

I know this is not what you meant, but I have a story about city walks for you:

Got lost and had to walk alone in downtown DC one late night. Made me decide to not take that job in NY and move back to Europe.


So if you had gotten lost in actual NY, say, in Greenwich Village or another tourist-friendly rich neighborhood, you would’ve stayed?


Well, you don't always get to choose the area you get lost in :)

Source: got lost in another country a month later. In a city with the highest homicide rate in the world.


Exactly my point.

This lifestyle suits a chill family life, not "Let's freaking build the next facebook and code 24/7".




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