There’s a strong narrative that it’s unreasonable to stay in the EU (“too regulated”, etc.) if you want to hack on real stuff. Yet plenty of us do — Bellard being exhibit A.

You can stay in EU if you don't need large amounts of capital needed to grow.

EU is thin in capital, not in innovation. Regulation is not an issue for high-tech. The list of smaller startups US and Chinese megacorps buy every year from EU is staggering.

Salvatore Sanfilippo (a.k.a. Antirez) exhibit B