TITLE: Non-bimeromorphic compactifications 
QUESTION [10 upvotes]: Let $X$ be a (smooth, non-compact) complex space. By a compactification of $X$ we mean a compact complex space $\overline X$ which contains a dense open subset biholomorphic to $X$ (we shall identify this subset with $X$) and such that $\overline X\setminus X$ is a proper analytic subset (with no conditions on its codimension). 
In particular, given two (different) compactifications of $X$, they always contain biholomorphic dense open subsets. 
My question is: given two compactifications of $X$, are they necessarily bimeromorphic?
More precisely, does the biholomorphism between the two dense open subsets always extend to a global bimeromorphic map?
I guess the answer is no, but after a moment of reflection I cannot find any counterexample.
Perhaps, it would suffice to look at compactifications of $\mathbb C^2$...

REPLY [7 votes]: Another example, different but diffeomorphic to Polizzi's, is given by
$E \times \mathbb C$, where $E$ is a fixed elliptic curve say $ \mathbb C^* / \lbrace z \mapsto 2z \rbrace$. 
It can be compactified as the projective surface $E  \times \mathbb P^1$ or as the (non-Kähler) Hopf surface $\mathbb C^2-\{0\} / \lbrace (z,w) \mapsto (2z,2w) \rbrace$. 
Notice that the two compactifications have fields of meromorphic functions of different transcendence degree over $\mathbb C$, i.e., they have different algebraic dimensions.