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Fareed Zakaria just introduced me to another pair of interesting ideas: the ease with which I could legally live outside the United States, and the artificial hurdles the United States puts up to expanding our skilled and educated workforce.

When we lived in Germany in 2005, we had to come back from that great experience earlier than I would have liked because we couldn't get long-term legal status.  We looked into the possibility of getting legal status in other European countries, but all of them built their requirements on close family connections.  While this makes some sense, it's not really a system designed for the future economy, is it?

Of course, I'm lucky that I don't have to worry about trying to get into the USA.  Our immigration policy is just a mess, I'm glad I don't have to navigate it, and it's not designed to build our economy, either.

And then there's Canada.

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