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It depends on where you are coming from I guess. I never really thought about people leaving the US. More like an intra-European competition for talent.

My point was however more targeted on the "go back home" guys. I (German) know several guys from Romania, Spain .. who don't plan to stay in Germany forever and just want to work here for a few years, earn good money (well compared to their country) and then return home.

This is however not possible if your home country has a higher cost of living.

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aren't these the usual plans of guest workers who never go back, because of the same reasons they left their home country?

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Maybe that is so. But my point is still valid. If I PLAN to do this I cannot go to a country where salaries are much lower than in my home country where I want to return.