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Say a friend of yours gets a job in the US, would you recommend him to move or not? Why?
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Thursday April 26 2018, @03:27PM (6 children)
1. What kind of job is it? What kinds of guarantees are there that the job is what their recruiter says it is (there have been horror stories of engineers and scientists being recruited for professional jobs, only to be told their job is slaughtering chickens and they couldn't afford to leave the job for years).
2. Where in the US is it? There's a big difference in quality of life between working in Seattle and working in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
3. What country are they leaving? If they're leaving Syria, they definitely should make the trip. If they're leaving Finland or some other prosperous place, maybe not.
4. How permanent is the new situation? If they're thinking about a sojourn to make big bucks for a while and come home, that's a different matter than if they want to settle somewhere forever.
There are probably more pertinent questions, but that's just some of the complexity.
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(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @06:04PM
Hot Springs: In 2013, the metro was ranked by Forbes as one of the top "small places for business and careers", citing a low cost of doing business, high job growth and an educated workforce.
Seattle: It's a filthy high-stress urban environment with the usual panhandlers, muggers, druggies, pickpockets, etc.
If leaving Finland, they should make the trip to escape the rapidly worsening EU... provided that they don't endorse that shit. If they are leaving Syria as a non-Muslim victim of religious violence, OK, but otherwise they'd be bringing that shit to the USA.
The question of "how permanent" is simple. Unless you will honestly be a 100% patriotic American, fully rejecting all ties to the former country, you should not go.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday April 27 2018, @04:18AM
And most of that has to do with the perspective of the job candidate.
Equal money: cost of living is much lower in Hot Springs - live like a King, big fish in the small pond, or live like a plebe in a rundown apartment in Seattle.
Does the big city, heroin capital of the country (Space Needle for G-d's sake) excite and appeal to you, or do you like to go hunting and fishing after work?
If the candidate is coming from out of country, is it important to them to be able to visit the old country easily? Airport connections are much better in Seattle.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday April 27 2018, @06:17PM (1 child)
You know this because . . . . you've lived in both places?
I am probably not the best of people to recommend cities to live in. For one, I don't like cities. For another, I have never "settled in" to a city. But, I've been around. Hot Springs isn't a real "working" city. It's a freaking tourist trap kind of place. Hot Springs has much in common with places like Virginia Beach, Mayport, or even Seattle. Personally, I have almost zero use for tourist trap cities. Winter Harbor, Maine, is more my kind of place, or Cape Flattery, Washington. The quality of life in either place is much, much, MUCH higher than any tourist trap town.
I suppose that a person's political leanings might sway his opinion of some cities and towns. Seattle is pretty damned liberal. Seattle tends to attract a little more than it's fair share of crazies. If you're a liberal, or a crazy, you'll likely recommend Seattle. If you're less liberal, and a little less crazy, you'll probably prefer Hot Springs. But, "quality of life"? You'll need to offer some serious citations for that. And, I DO NOT mean some crazed politico's talking points about local/state/federal politics, and voting records. You specifically used the term "quality of life". Justify it.
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Tuesday May 08 2018, @10:24PM
If you're looking for the "working" part of northern Arkansas, you'll want to investigate the I-49 corridor (Fayetteville, Springdale, Bentonville, Rogers). That's the better region to compare against Seattle--though the cost of living is accelerating. This is mostly accredited to Walmart's headquarters being located in Bentonville. Basically, anything coming from Arkansas that is not rice, cotton, sod, or soy comes from that area.
The real tourist trap of the region is Branson, MO. That place is the Ned Flanders version of Vegas.
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(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @04:12AM
If it's in the US, stay well away.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday May 18 2018, @04:34PM
Those are, of course, the obvious missing details in the poll question.
I believe they are looking for more generalized prejudices and other inflammatory opinions to be expressed here, logic need not apply to a Yes/No poll with an Oi! option.
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