US Remains Top Country For Global Workers

Nerval's Lobster writes The Boston Consulting Group and The Network recently surveyed 200,000 people in 189 countries to figure out the global willingness to work abroad. Their conclusion? People will indeed set down professional roots in another country—although younger workers seem far more willing to expatriate than their older peers. Where do the majority of global workers want to head? The United States, which 42 percent of respondents listed as their top potential work destination, followed by the U.K. (37 percent), Canada (35 percent), Germany (33 percent), Switzerland (29 percent), and France (29 percent). But citizens in the United States seemed a bit more reluctant to return the favor—less than 50 percent said they either lived abroad or would consider doing so for work. That's in sharp contrast to countries such as France, where a significant majority of citizens seemed willing to explore jobs in other nations. Of course, those who work in tech already know that globalization is a huge issue.

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Diversity vs monoculture

[TWX]

It doesn't hurt the United States that just about every major culture in the world is represented here, and even American-specific culture is very diverse. With some research it wouldn't be difficult to find a community that appeals, even avoiding expensive places to live like New York and San Francisco. And as an American that's travelled fairly extensively in the United States and a little abroad, one can get many of the benefits of going abroad while remaining in one's own country. Boston is very different from Chicago or Hawaii or Miami or Portland. It's easy to move within the country to have an entirely different experience than where one was before, no residency issues or other international-lines problems.

Obviously some other countries have very diverse cultures and regions too; I'd think that India and China could feel much the same way, but there aren't necessarily the kinds of jobs that people look for in those more distinct regions either. That probably helps make America appeal. Don't like the cold? Move to Phoenix or Dallas or San Diego, all different cultures, all one country.

Re:Well yeah

[iggymanz]

Wrong, France is a leader in aviation (#2 exporter) and european aerospace,, medicine, nuclear fuel reprocessing, genetics, second largest defense tech maker,

France is ranked #4 in research after U.S, Japan, Germany.

Re:US Capital is top imperialist dog

[BarbaraHudson]

The real problem is reduced economic mobility, which has been going on for decades. Making everyone equally impoverished isn't empowering anyone except your new socialist overlords.

There are plenty of countries that are a mix of social and capitalist policies, and where unbridled capitalism is frowned upon. I *like* living in Kanukistan. It's not perfect, but it works. Those "anti-capitalist" banking regulations gave us the safest banking system in the world. No banks went bankrupt, no government bailouts of the banks during the global financial meltdown, no forced mergers or shotgun marriages.

I guess you could say we're social democrats with a strong capitalist bent.

" Boston is very different from Chicago"

[aepervius]

Yes but it is the same language the same "ground" culture and politics common history, common perspective vs the world or past etc.... On the other hand going from France to , say, england is a huge difference in all of those. Different perspective. Different history. Uncommon languages, uncommon ground culture, uncommon view vis a vis politess or respect, uncommon religions heck (anglican church versus majority catholicism) , uncommon politic, "off with her head" versus "god save trhe queen".

Any American I know have to admit that whereas the difference between american state are there, they are nowhere near the difference between countries in the world even if you take something as local as europe.

Well if you want to get local custom difference , I am betting I would get as much difference from province sud France to the valenciennois where my family comes from, as between boston and chicago.

Look your country is big we get it. But the culture despite local differences is far more uniform than you would imagine if you compare to the rest of the world.