It's Electric

An electrician's job in New York City lured John Leavy to move from his native Ireland to the United States.

A few years later Leavy began to dream American, when he sought to run his own business. So he moved back to Ireland, where he built up a 14-employee company that wired new homes under construction in and around booming Dublin in the early 2000s.

But the American Dream never died, and when the bubble in Ireland began to burst in 2008, Leavy, again, looked west. “I always wanted to come back to America,” says Leavy. “We wanted a better opportunity.”