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by clevernickname 3682 days ago
To add to this, in the past it may have been worthwhile to uproot your family and move across the world to "the land of opportunity." That doesn't imply in any way that today it is worthwhile to uproot your family and move across the world to "the land of less job opportunities but lower rent" on a whim.

The only people that can really exploit this are tech workers that can telecommute and pocket the difference between western salaries and expat cost of living, and that's not really "finding a new life" so much as it is maximizing an already disproportionally good life situation.