[pekk]

> If you focus on your own skills - always be coding, always be learning - I think you'll do fine here or elsewhere.

People who just code and learn don't automatically get work. You need a network to get work. Some places make that much harder to acquire. It's good if you're doing well, but we are talking about people potentially wasting years of life in places which make it fundamentally harder for them because they were poorly advised that learning will somehow get you constant work no matter where you are.