Thailand, Turkey, and Brazil are unfathomably corrupt and less productive countries…taking refuge from the US in these places is weird.

They are also extremely odd choices for people that think the possibility people might boycott them for their political tweets is a threat to their freedom of conscience comparable to Soviet Russia...

I'll add to this...all the cases I personally knew of were in hardware development, as with the notable cases in TFA. I suppose you may evaluate a locale differently for a hardware company than for an Internet startup.