Comment Ethiopia (Score 1) 2349
Actually it wasn't my first choice.... my wife couldn't get a visa to the U.S. (we weren't married when I decided to leave; we had met in India and summered together various places in India and Africa) and it seemed easier for me to get a job just about anywhere than for her to get a U.S. visa. Ethiopia isn't exactly high-tech or democratic, but people with high skills are in demand and for the salary of a Starbucks cashier you can live quite handsomely here. Anyway, now I'm in Addis and enjoying the sun.
Most of the rest of my friends from New York have left for Asia -- Hong Kong, Bangkok, Dhaka -- and I have to agree it's a more happening part of the world. But we're all trying to sample different places and we'll probably report back to each other about how things go. And maybe we'll all end up in the same place.
As I said above, I didn't leave the U.S. because I had given up on the political system, though the reason I left does very much have to do with politics. I would like to come back and work for change, and I expect the next decade of my life will be spent shuttling in and out of the U.S. But the political climate does make the U.S. less alluring, and the salaries that highly-skilled workers can get abroad seem pretty alluring right now. What's one to do?
Most of the rest of my friends from New York have left for Asia -- Hong Kong, Bangkok, Dhaka -- and I have to agree it's a more happening part of the world. But we're all trying to sample different places and we'll probably report back to each other about how things go. And maybe we'll all end up in the same place.
As I said above, I didn't leave the U.S. because I had given up on the political system, though the reason I left does very much have to do with politics. I would like to come back and work for change, and I expect the next decade of my life will be spent shuttling in and out of the U.S. But the political climate does make the U.S. less alluring, and the salaries that highly-skilled workers can get abroad seem pretty alluring right now. What's one to do?
