Xenophobia (was Re:jobs in Linux / IT)

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:

> Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>> 
>>     Then there are those like my parents, who, after 8 years in North
>>     America (3 in the US and 5 in Canada), went back to England for a
>>     sabbatical and never returned.
>
> Right. A lot of people returns. And the most striking example are returns of 
> educated Russians. They just piss off on the fact that they can not get a 
> position similar to what they had in their country and go back.

    In my parents' case, they had excellent jobs here; both were
    tenured University faculty.


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