It feels Europe is becoming increasingly poor and unsafe, and the situation in the UK has worsened quite a bit since the start of Brexit.
Anecdotally, seems there's a lot of British and European expats here in the Valley and they don't seem too keen on returning. We've been getting a lot of international applicants (but work from home was supposed to mean Europeans could avoid moving to the "dangerous" US but work for American companies?).
Brexit was 6 years or so ago. Then we had 3 years of trying to reverse it, then Covid, then Ukraine and, to top that, a Govt that decides fracking for gas is unacceptable and then goes and imports fracked gas from the US.
Maybe best to sum things up as a run of bad luck compounded with gross incompetence?
Everything becomes less safe when inflation is on the rise. Every country has a different inflation formula (alongside the effects of "shadow inflation"), thus you can't compare 10% in country X with 18% in country Y. We're all in the same shit.
Anecdotally, seems there's a lot of British and European expats here in the Valley and they don't seem too keen on returning. We've been getting a lot of international applicants (but work from home was supposed to mean Europeans could avoid moving to the "dangerous" US but work for American companies?).