They may receive a lower pay at first but the rest all depends on their work performance and attitude. If a local grad with "higher starting pay" performed badly as compared to a sim grad with "lower starting pay", who do you think will progress better 10 years down the road? Those local grad who thinks that they are so much superior and yaya papaya everyday in forums bashing other sim grads only shows that they are lacking confidence and need to put down others in order to make themselves feel better. They won't be able to make it big in the real world. The rest who are humble and low profiles are the ones who will be respected and make it big in the real world.