Building trades spent the past five years preparing for an offshore wind boom that went bust. Now, U.S. workers mourn the well-paying careers they don’t see coming back.

I’ll note that the reason construction is ending is that Trump is using taxpayer dollars to pay companies to not build wind farms

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      I’ve never even been able to afford to go on vacation outside the United States, what on earth makes you think I can afford to move somewhere else? And that’s assuming that I can get the visa sponsorship necessary to even do it.

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        I would hope for a skilled worker such as this, it would be an easier job to immigrate, but yeah it’s often not as easy as people make it out to be