> De plus en plus de Luxembourgeois âgés de 20 à 40 ans décident de quitter le pays
Anyone surprised?
Ridiculous language requirements, companies preferring to hire foreigners over locals because they accept lower salaries, managements which never really learn how to proper manage people, insane cost of living making it very hard to impossible to really start your career unless you want to live in Wiltz and drive every day 1 hour one way to work.
Bru you try living here on an entry level salay
Dreams priced out of our cobbled streets,
Youth drifts to where borders meet.
The chance of a Home turns distant. But the heart remains.
Roots pulled up by the housing ladder’s chain.
A nation rich, yet losing its song.
Its young walk away from where they belong.
Well, also, if you’re a local, and work for one of multinationals, everyone looks at you like something went seriously wrong in your life for you to end up there.
That’s normal. The world does not stop at the borders of Luxembourg. These young people are damn right to do their life experience somewhere else.
Huge failure.
I wish they would have gone into details as to why. I see some comments on here about living in Lux on junior career wages and also on language.
I’d like to know what is the biggest reason people 20-40 decide to move away? Is it because opportunities are better elsewhere in the early career stages? Is it because housing is too expensive (buying or renting)? Is it perhaps a lot of students in the 20-26 age bracket that go to study somewhere else? And do they see Luxembourgers potentially return around 40-50 (my guess is with additional tiny Luxembourgers in tow) where maybe parents are getting older and/or there’s the benefit of grandparents helping with childcare?
For me is that software engineering salaries are bad, unless you work for amazon. There is still no alternative it seems. Would love to come back if the tech sector was similar to amsterdam
No future because of too much capitalism. And the problem will only grow. I know many parents who tell their kids to stay wherever they want — that they’re not needed here. They should be able to live a happy life, not one built around a mortgage and the Luxembourgish pension system.
The article isn’t exactly clear about it, but if this includes everyone that just moved 10km behind the border while still working in Luxembourg, then it’s a big nothing burger
>More specifically, between 2019 and 2024, 6,085 Luxembourgers aged between 20 and 30 and 4,479 aged between 30 and 40 left the country. Around 2,500 people under the age of 10 also left the country, which suggests that some families are also moving abroad – sometimes just across the border.
You could argue that the ones between 20 and 30 years old are leaving the country for studying. In Germany for example it is the rule to move to another city to study and make your first steps. In Lux you need to leave the country which may sound dramatic but from a European standpoint it’s not really a exodus.
Also looks like that between 30 and 40 it is the perfect time to buy a house across the border. Again, just moving to the other side of the river doesn’t really scream Exodus.
>In total, between 2019 and 2024, Luxembourg recorded 22,014 emigrations.
Would be interesting to see how many of these are naturalised and just got back to their first origincountry.
>On the return and arrival sides, the trend is less marked. Over the same period, 12,605 Luxembourgish citizens came back to Luxembourg, including 3,181 in the 20-30 age bracket and 2,326 in the 30-40 age bracket.
I mean, we missed the tech revolution. We are going to miss the ai revolution. We are going to “pr” our way out of it saying we are leading the world in AI.
At the end of the day, the job sector is finance and physical labour. We don’t have tech and will never have. Young people have internet and they can see and compare what is happening
In my home country, a good % of nationals who leave are people who immigrated and got the passport and with it the freedom of movement within the EU. I assume part of the reason is that they tend to have less family links and are anyways more willing to move around or even they just go back home.
Would be interesting to see how many of those luxembourgers moving out fall in this group.
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Original Article in French by Virgule.
https://www.virgule.lu/luxembourg/de-plus-en-plus-de-luxembourgeois-ages-de-20-a-40-ans-decident-de-quitter-le-pays/99002875.html
> De plus en plus de Luxembourgeois âgés de 20 à 40 ans décident de quitter le pays
Anyone surprised?
Ridiculous language requirements, companies preferring to hire foreigners over locals because they accept lower salaries, managements which never really learn how to proper manage people, insane cost of living making it very hard to impossible to really start your career unless you want to live in Wiltz and drive every day 1 hour one way to work.
Bru you try living here on an entry level salay
Dreams priced out of our cobbled streets,
Youth drifts to where borders meet.
The chance of a Home turns distant. But the heart remains.
Roots pulled up by the housing ladder’s chain.
A nation rich, yet losing its song.
Its young walk away from where they belong.
Well, also, if you’re a local, and work for one of multinationals, everyone looks at you like something went seriously wrong in your life for you to end up there.
That’s normal. The world does not stop at the borders of Luxembourg. These young people are damn right to do their life experience somewhere else.
Huge failure.
I wish they would have gone into details as to why. I see some comments on here about living in Lux on junior career wages and also on language.
I’d like to know what is the biggest reason people 20-40 decide to move away? Is it because opportunities are better elsewhere in the early career stages? Is it because housing is too expensive (buying or renting)? Is it perhaps a lot of students in the 20-26 age bracket that go to study somewhere else? And do they see Luxembourgers potentially return around 40-50 (my guess is with additional tiny Luxembourgers in tow) where maybe parents are getting older and/or there’s the benefit of grandparents helping with childcare?
For me is that software engineering salaries are bad, unless you work for amazon. There is still no alternative it seems. Would love to come back if the tech sector was similar to amsterdam
No future because of too much capitalism. And the problem will only grow. I know many parents who tell their kids to stay wherever they want — that they’re not needed here. They should be able to live a happy life, not one built around a mortgage and the Luxembourgish pension system.
The article isn’t exactly clear about it, but if this includes everyone that just moved 10km behind the border while still working in Luxembourg, then it’s a big nothing burger
>More specifically, between 2019 and 2024, 6,085 Luxembourgers aged between 20 and 30 and 4,479 aged between 30 and 40 left the country. Around 2,500 people under the age of 10 also left the country, which suggests that some families are also moving abroad – sometimes just across the border.
You could argue that the ones between 20 and 30 years old are leaving the country for studying. In Germany for example it is the rule to move to another city to study and make your first steps. In Lux you need to leave the country which may sound dramatic but from a European standpoint it’s not really a exodus.
Also looks like that between 30 and 40 it is the perfect time to buy a house across the border. Again, just moving to the other side of the river doesn’t really scream Exodus.
>In total, between 2019 and 2024, Luxembourg recorded 22,014 emigrations.
Would be interesting to see how many of these are naturalised and just got back to their first origincountry.
>On the return and arrival sides, the trend is less marked. Over the same period, 12,605 Luxembourgish citizens came back to Luxembourg, including 3,181 in the 20-30 age bracket and 2,326 in the 30-40 age bracket.
I mean, we missed the tech revolution. We are going to miss the ai revolution. We are going to “pr” our way out of it saying we are leading the world in AI.
At the end of the day, the job sector is finance and physical labour. We don’t have tech and will never have. Young people have internet and they can see and compare what is happening
In my home country, a good % of nationals who leave are people who immigrated and got the passport and with it the freedom of movement within the EU. I assume part of the reason is that they tend to have less family links and are anyways more willing to move around or even they just go back home.
Would be interesting to see how many of those luxembourgers moving out fall in this group.
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