[habosa]

Clearly America is the place to be if you want to make billions in tech. The bigger question is why every single company needs to target billions of dollars. You can still build a very successful company in London and get quite wealthy, you just might not get your own private space program.

Meanwhile in London your workers will have free healthcare, their kids will have free higher education, etc.

He's totally right about Brexit though. The talent pool in London is never going to be the same.

[carnitine]

Higher education in England is definitely not free. I imagine most well-funded startup employees have good healthcare plans in the US too.

[ddek]

It's relatively low cost, though. Tuition maxes at <£10k/y, usually financed with a reasonable repayment rate (5% earnings over ~£25k, I can't remember for sure), and the option to pay off early if you're willing.

Most employees in well-funded organisations in the UK will have private healthcare too. My plan costs me ~£14pm, which is actually tax rather than a premium, with no deductible/copay/excesses.

[uzakov]

Your numbers are not quite correct, which changes the dynamic of the argument.

> Tuition maxes at <£10k/y

For the majority of courses offered at the BSc level they are more or less fixed accross the board. For example, it doesnt matter from the cost perspective if you do BSc CS at Kings uni in London, Manchester uni or Aston university, since the fee is exactly the same £9250. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/computer-s... https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/202... https://www.aston.ac.uk/study/courses/computer-science-bsc/s...

Additionally, by saying "Tuition maxes at <£10k/y" you could imply to some that fees are in a certain range below 10k, where in fact they are generally speaking very close to £10k.

> Most employees in well-funded organisations in the UK will have private healthcare too

While this might create debate I think it's worth pointing out that there is a BIG difference between UK and US private healthcare.

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> Meanwhile in London your workers will have free healthcare, their kids will have free higher education, etc.

Oh it's free for engineers? Who pays for it? The Queen pays for it?

[habosa]

Edit: it was early when I wrote this. I said free higher education, which is wrong. I meant cheap.