No matter how 'prestigious' American companies are or how well they pay, quality of life is still greatly dictated by social factors like healthcare, crime and infrastructure.
It doesn't matter if you bagged a 200k/year job at Goldman or Google if you have to worry about stepping on a syringe every time you leave the house.
Some of the discussions is getting off onto tangents I don't want to delve into, but as for this even I have to say its time to cut it out. It was disgusting when Serpentza used to post all those videos of a part of China with a dirt road and went off in his annoying South African accent about how China as a whole is shittier than Nigeria, it'd be equally wrong to keep posting a single city bloc in LA, SF, and Philly, while beating our chests and going why the fuck does anyone still want to move to the USA even parts of Pakistan look nicer? Because as shitty as those places are, they don't paint the whole picture.
Your average immigrant engineer is more likely to congregate in a space like this for the record.
You see? That's what you call the other side of the story.
I responded firsty because of your assertion that only losers go back to China for non-family reasons after working in the US. That's a pretty nasty claim.
I think its equally nasty for you to claim that I think of these people as losers. Here is what I wrote, where did I say they were losers?
"They mostly fall in the bracket of being less savy and educated at a subpar university, laid off from their job, not being able to find a new oppurtunity, and thus not able to get their visa in order, so they have no choice." I said they were less savy, which some people in this world just are, there's no shame in it at least from my perspective. They follow a pretty standard route of getting a job as soon as they're handed their diploma and only speak the English level necessary to interview for and perform the basics of where they work, while savvier ones go beyond that's just a simple fact. "Educated at a subpar university," which is a fact not all overseas Chinese are funneling into Stanford and UCLA, plenty of state schools have a decent sized Mainland Chinese student body. If you thought me characterizing state schools as subpar universities is too harsh, fine I'll take it back. The rest of my post was just pure reality, so I don't know what offended you. Layoffs happened, some Chinese couldn't hack it out, so they had no choice but to go back. Now to me these people have already accomplished a lot more than many of my American peers for whom the farthest they've wandered from the neighborhood they were born in is to a city three hours away. If you think the kind of people I described are losers and thus its on me to think of them as losers as well, hey that's on you.
As for the rest of your post, okay cool. That's your experience and I won't knock you for it since I don't know what kind of life you've lived.
