> Everything else is lost in US with immediate job termination, no thanks.
This doesn't matter when you save $60k/year from your $250k FAANG job. Job termination just means a long, fun vacation before you look for your next thing.
Also the idea of people get fired in IT jobs in USA at the drop of the hat is also bit of an exaggeration. Just look at how Airbnb and Uber are handling it.
"Affected employees will receive a severance package, which includes a minimum of 10 weeks pay and health benefits through the end of the year" [0] and their average senior software engineer is making 345k a year [1] so a minimum of 66k on average.
Nobody is talking about being rich but if you look at house prices in the major European metro areas or tech hubs, they're out of reach even for devs while that's not the case in the US.
By having a 30 year long credit and not going over the roof with their choices.
Meanwhile as described by Lehman brothers fiasco documentaries, multiple American families went totally bankrupt with their multiple mortgages over their houses.
Except that as a FAANGer you earn enough to own your house in full in 10-20 years and retire early, while as a dev in Europe's strongest economy you're basically a neofeudalist slave to your bank and employer way into your 60s(if anyone will still hire you then). Really nice.
Just because some people in the US made bad financial choices with property investments(some Europeans also did the same) doesn't change the fact that US tech workers earn way more than Europeans, cost of living adjusted.
You can get those 30 pretty much everywhere, either by negotiating it, or taking advantage of the multiple holidays that we enjoy across Europe.
And as I mentioned, I don't have any complains regarding salary.
There is more in life than being rich.