Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area?

Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by komali2 on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @07:24PM (#13181116)

If you can afford to pay a couple Chinese programmers this isn't a bad idea. You run the risk of your code just vanishing and a eerily similar Chinese product appearing a few months later, but depending on your financial situation you can be a sole funder in that case.

Not that I have anything against using out of country programmers, but it's a fact that China does not strongly enforce copyright and does not go out of its way to protect foreign businesses. I don't know about Russia, India, South America, etc, I'd be curious about anybody that's done this sort of thing before. Tim Ferris always talks about it for things like running his support and returns and whatnot.

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Re:Does It Make Sense for Programmers to Move to the Bay Area? by fraculto09 on Thursday December 15, 2016 @08:34AM (#13184443)

You can just choose countries with Western culture that didn't have too much luck economy-wise in the recent years, but have stable states and law. That usually means Central/Eastern Europe: Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and so on. Avoid Belarus, Ukraine and others with heavy eastern influences (a rule of thumb: if they use Latin alphabet, there's a good chance that it's safe).

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