Tbf in EU tech salaries are...underwhelming. And before you mention it, no, my insurance costs (which are minimal) do not justify the $90000 or so pay gap in similar position in the similar branch of the company between Spain or US that I was being offered.
When I was interviewing post-graduation in Uk and Germany I consistently got offers between 27 and 50k Euros/Quid. That imho, was too low compared to what companies in US were willing to pay me.
Sometimes no, sometimes yes. 6 weeks of paid vacation, [p|m]aternity leave and heavily subsidized kindergartens etc can weigh heavier than extra pay, depending on your priorities in life.
Not your parent but for me you take what they give you. You might be able to get 5% more but that's about it. In a lot of places yearly raises are uncommon or slow. My first company would go beyond 10% for juniors but it would plateau eventually, usually you take 2-5% and that's it, to get 10%+ you need to change jobs and you cannot do that every year without being categorized as unstable in your next jobs.
nordvpn (or maybe something more trustworthy than it, like mullvad) is the complete opposite of just routing all your traffic through your own vps, it changes your public IP address making tracking you harder (obviously opsec is important there with browser fingerprinting etc).
If you always go to your own vps then that IP address is tied to you, typically via a credit card.
Exactly this. I am pretty sure he's bluffing, and even if not, by the time they decide to pull their operations, many alternative would be on the market (there are already many).
