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		m0th87 on Sept 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The American Dream, RIP? Not in the literal sense. But you can't not have a distorted vision of a country you haven't even visited.

josephjrobison on Sept 22, 2013 [–]

From what I've observed - a lot of immigrant tech workers have family or friends that had already immigrated to the US for jobs that can tell them what the situation is really like, so I would say the majority of them know what the US is really like. Plus 4x or greater wage increase doesn't hurt.

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