Italy’s talent is once again moving abroad, according to a recent article on Yahoo!. These expats have turned to other nations to find a better environment for their respective industries:
For more than a century unskilled Italians have gone abroad to escape poverty, but these days the people running for the exits are among the country’s top brains.
A growing wave of technologists, researchers and entrepreneurs is flowing away from the motherland. Few think this weekend’s elections will do much to alleviate the gloom.
“I am Italian and I love Italy. But every time I come back to visit, I see the country is sliding a little further back,” said Andrea Ballarini, an economics graduate who left for the U.S. West Coast nearly three years ago…
“My business partner and I bought a ticket for San Francisco. We just wanted to check Silicon Valley out. We never came back,” said Ballarini, who was won over by the pro-business atmosphere of the West Coast and now runs a virtual business fair platform called HyperFair.
Wow! Did someone just call California pro-business? Hopefully he means the environment among fellow entrepreneurs, because he sure can’t mean the tax environment. Wonder how the taxes in Italy compare to the taxes in California? Are the taxes in Italy so repressive that they’re more business friendly than California?
my grandfather emigrated from italy in the 1920′s, married my polish grandmother here, (N.Y. state, U.S.), and i was born in lackawanna, n.y., where a lot of europeans ended up, because they were told that there were jobs in the mills.as far as i know, the job that “grampa” got at bethlehem steel, as a laborer in the curing (bessemer converter) section of bethlehem, was the same job that he held, almost until the day he died, of a heart attack. i was a member of the steelworker’s union myself, for a brief time, i was a machine operator, however, and didn’t work at bethlehem. now, following our mother’s death, i have become the head of my family, but a very unscrupulous lawyer, whom my mom trusted, who is also of italian heritage, has been assisting my own sister in looting the estate that i worked hard to provide for our mother, myself, and other family members, after an accident left mom crippled, and me as her only caretaker for over 15 years. so now, the help i need is not from lawyers, it can only come from other expates who have been through similar tragedies, and have survived them. i would gladly emigrate to any other country, where i would be able to escape the the rest of the family, and start over, as now, the rest of our mom’s side of the family is becoming very hostile and threatening towards me, and, on our father’s side, it is only nyself, the siblings who are busy robbing me, and two female cousins, whom i can’t locate. (my father was hungarian) so after only two generations here, i say i’m calling it “quits” for america, as a “land of opportunity”. where should i go now?