Originally posted by AstnerI don't know how many USD Sweden's currency is but software developers make as much as they're willing to work. Even if I only make $40 an hour starting out I can handle certain accounts with a higher rate, stay late nights and turn up 100 grand in a year if I felt the need to over-achieve which I wouldn't. Here there's technically no difference between 70 thousand a year and 100 thousand a year as far as living standards are concerned. Maybe if I were in a larger city it might, but statistics say 70 thousand is as good as anything higher in the Saint Louis area.
That may be truer than you'd think, because I'm considering going back for a PhD, and the pay of a doctorate in Sweden is roughly a third of what I'm making now.Actually you'd still be making less, never-mind then.
If I don't disprove the Beal conjecture while working towards my bachelors, and I intend to do so. I can coast off interest at around your earnings, but I won't have to work and I'll be in a more industrialized area than you.
As far as being smart, intelligence is the result of applying more effort to everything - the brain's processes do improve to suit. It even effects the preset IQ of your offspring.