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by neonbones 1688 days ago
>If you want to code in Haskell or Lisp in Europe, good luck. I can agree with points around salary and diploma, but not on that one.

Scala, Haskell, Ocaml, Clojure, Coq, Idris are much more significant in the EU than in the US. Many Ph.D. contribute to language and ecosystem, and you can easily find exciting projects with them, not only crypto.

Even GHC was developed mainly by the EU and British people. The Swiss academy created Scala. Coq and Ocaml are big in French academy circles.

It's also a problem for me because I'm working from Eastern Europe (I can pay only 5% tax on all income up to 250k euro on remote). I primarily work with US companies, salaries are outstanding, but usually interesting FP-ish things are done in the EU, where wages are lower.

And I am on remote, so there is no profit for me to earn less with better social and government benefits like people in West Europe.

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Can I ask how/where you get good remote US jobs? I'm also from Eastern Europe.