This Is A Truly Troubling Sign of Economic Woe

[Yavin4]

Young workers are moving abroad to start their careers:

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/news/economy/1108/gallery.jobs_abroad/index.html


When your best workers go overseas to find work, you are hollowing out your entire economy.

[izquierdista]

1. If I was young again.......

[Kalidurga]

2. Well I saw th is coming...

I was thinking this would become the new trend. It is a horrible trend our best and brightest will undoubtedly be tho ones on this trend. Because face it why would someone who is very bright want to compete with 1000 other people for one job when they can go somewhere else with better odds?

[Yavin4]

3. I Was Listening to Thom Hartmann's Show Today

And he was at a renewable energy convention. I started thinking what young, bright intelligent person would ever want to start a green energy career in the U.S. where the deck is stacked against you. Where oil companies get subsidies. Where one of the major political parties does not even think that climate change is real.

Why not move to Northern Europe or even China to start your career where they take climate change and renewable energy seriously.

[Hawkowl]

4. I would like to move to finish my career!

If you are over 50 and have lost your job, it may be you MUST leave if you want to be able to continue to feed yourself.

[Yavin4]

5. Possibly.

You can stay here and starve, or you can move somewhere else and have a chance at a better life.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. However, if you're 50+ and have little money

there are few Western-style countries that will welcome you if you don't have close relatives in that country, or a spouse who's a citizen of that country.

[AtheistCrusader]

6. If I were still in High School, I'd be learning to speak Mandarin, just sayin'.

Fortunately I picked up some German and Spanish, so I've got some options.

[jwhitesj]

8. I've been looking at moving after getting my degree too

It's so tough here, I'm in my 30's and married so It makes it more difficult but I should be graduating in about 2 years with a Bachelors in Civil Engineering. Plenty of oppurtunities world wide. My wife and I talked a lot about the potential of moving to another country after I graduate.

[golfguru]

10. China is using more concrete than any other country, currently

They have a building boom of enormous proportions.
But before moving out, consider quality of life. Money is not
the only criterion. Climate, culture, entertainment sources,
sports, availability of good food, housing, etc all matters.
For me there is no place like good old USA. We have the best and
reasonably priced golf courses in the world. Only the rich can play
golf in most countries. Here one can play a round for under 30 bucks.
In China it will cost over a couple of hundred.

[golfguru]

9. Well...this country has benefited for decades

with the best and brightest coming from foreign lands.
No country stays on top for ever. Not the Roman empire, not the
Third Reich, or any other empire in history. China & India had
the worlds largest economies (measured in GDP) for over thousand
years going back a few centuries. Then they fell behind, and are
now catching up again.