Re:The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers
by notmything on Sunday July 22, 2018 @10:13AM
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A friend of mine moved to the Philippines with her husband (both Australian) to set up an offshore development shop doing NetSute ERP implementations for Australian NetSuite customers (usually mid-market retailers or manufactures).
She’s been there for 4 years now so it must be going well - her house is amazing there too.
Re:The Allure of Small Towns for Big City Freelancers
by Const-me on Sunday July 22, 2018 @01:34PM
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> Anybody ever though about downshifting to 3rd world countries in line of this?
Many 3rd world countries have issues with government-provided infrastructure: security, healthcare, schools, etc.
But there’re quite a lot of 1st & 2nd world countries with reasonable cost of living but good quality of life. Montenegro’s one of them (that’s where I currently live) but there’re more, e.g. most countries in Eastern or Southern Europe have similar qualities.
I myself work for a SZ based company, moved there from Canada. During production run times I'm in Shenzhen, and the rest of the time I'm stationed in a random "developing country" trying to "play a big man," fraternise with local business and political establishments, trying to win bets.
We have few Americans in the company, all of them are from "flyover" states. They all say China is a way better bet in moving up the ladder for them than Silicon Valley.