LinkedIn is probably the most direct. I don't like stack overflow although you get contacted for available jobs, no recruiter spends more than 10secs to watch you profile and see if you remotely match the position. 8 out of 10 that contacted me were about positions that were simply bad the requirements were an total mess ( like that doesn't happen everywhere, but whatever ) and lets just don't get started on the startup culture of every company with an profile on that site.
Yes I really doubt the refugees save the money in a bank account. Whatever they are given its consumed which translates to buying products it's just an endless cycle and eventually money ends up in banks once again.
UK plus every other EU country, no matter the education/experience you have there are limits that never reach even the lowest of those listed in linked spreadsheets.
People say it's the balance between the cost of living and work,work hours, job security etc etc I say it's bs I couldn't care less if it were to work 65h/week and my savings grew. I don't even want to mention the impression that working for X company makes in someone's resume that will guarantee an nice paying position somewhere.
My personal opinion is that every company in Europe/UK is total shit when it comes to money, they won't care about the passion that new developers bring with them.
I want to say the investors are not here but in America but I don't want to lie to myself anymore.
since you have most of the work done in PHP you could mirgrate/rewrite using another framework like Laravel/Symfony and use PHP 7. I really don't see an reason to rewrite to another language.
Look at Glassdoor, I'm not in US but I believe those roles are paid more than plain engineering roles. People in those roles you mentioned take more responsibilities and direct impact on company growth and earnings.
I would say if an web developer does not follow updates for 3 months he/she is a bit outdated, in 6 months out of web development and you try to make an comeback you will find it very difficult to catch up. 1year or more out there are entirly new stacks, new libraries, new versions, new ways of building things etc.
It not necessary to keep writing stuff following trends you just have to follow updates, newsletters, articles, so you dont struggle when you reenter the market.
> 20/mo as this is cheaper by several magnitudes than the self-hosting option.
exactly this, even the cheapest cloud instances cost around 100$/m, while some might be 20$/m it's just not worth the effort to host your own because it also needs management/maintenance if you do which translates in to hours of work. Yes you can automate these things but it simply not worth it when the only thing you want to do is sent mass emails, without even caring about anything besides configuration to connect to XYZ service.
be optimistic as Elon Musk, I mean remember the Facebook satellite launch with SpaceX ? nah who remembers that stuff, let's all connect our last place of privacy with an computer how bad can it get ?