Großherzogtum erlebt Massenflucht junger Luxemburger | Luxembourg Times

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.

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.

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.

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?