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Re:Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here by markyc on Thursday January 23, 2014 @09:23AM (#7108284)
yep, from the title i thought he lives in Ukraine or in some war-torn country

You may want to emulate Balsamiq's Peldi, or at least shoot him an email and get some perspective from him

Start your own projects and take the initiative, or like others have pointed, just switch countries

gl!

Re:Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here by davidw on Thursday January 23, 2014 @09:48AM (#7108444)
Peldi actually lived in the US for a while, where he built up some savings prior to launching. He also incorporated Balsamiq as an LLC before doing the Italian equivalent (which is way more expensive and bureaucratic).
Re:Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here by _kulte on Thursday January 23, 2014 @10:11AM (#7108593)
Might want to shoot Salvatore Sanfilippo an email as well.