Ask HN: Burnt out developer trying to move out of Iran, advices?
IMVHO for the sixth question you can target:<p>- Russia, friendly to Iran being ally, being a continental power have resources to survive almost any crisis, a thing EU (witch I&#x27;m from and I live) have not, so it might be easy to you target a large Russian city for a first immigration, spending FAR LESS than going in the west. From there you might decide something in few years, having learnt &quot;emigration&quot; and another social and work life, might seems nothing in the modern world, but count much;<p>- for EU France would probably be a better option because even if Germany-Iran ties are more developed Germany is en root to a DEEP disaster, France is also but far less and it&#x27;s still the seventh world superpower + it still have a bit of social system;<p>- for north America perhaps Canada might be an option, it&#x27;s IMO less bureaucratic than USA and less on the verge of a social collapse as well.<p>for 4) well... COBOL is still demanded and probably that means it will pay well for some years but it&#x27;s really deprecated so if you know it already well, it might be a way to try a not super-popular path (and so with a big offer, not only a big demand) to maximize chances of finding interesting position instead of being just one in a million of others. Otherwise I&#x27;ll honestly do not suggest it.<p>In any way the biggest issue IMO is how to get a job BEFORE emigration because the big deal is that you came from a cheaper country so the destination will be very expensive for some time, you need big savings on your side to jump the boat without too much risks.