[winter_blue]

It's not that easy to move to the US. The only viable pathway for a skilled/educated person to immigrate to the U.S. is a work visa, which most commonly is the H-1B visa.

One would have to win the H-1B lottery (~25% odds), find a job in February/March/April of a year; find a company that is willing to wait for 6-8 months, and move to the U.S. in October (if they win the lottery).

In tech today (esp. in the Bay Area of NYC), it won't be that hard to find a job and a company willing to apply for the visa and wait for 6-8 months, if you can show you're a good programmer -- but there's no way to avoid the lottery.

[aianus]

There are also the L-1, O-1, and possibly H-3 visas.

And there are European offices for many of the BigCo's. Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Spotify, and Google all have European engineering offices (just off the top of my head).

Finally, there's also remote work.

Really no reason to be envious of an actuary's £33,130 starting salary.