In the last 4 years I've learned about the Americas. There is a wealth of engineering talent in Central and South America and its basically all within US busine

In the last 4 years I've learned about the Americas. There is a wealth of engineering talent in Central and South America and its basically all within US business hours. They are about double the price of Asian and Eastern European developers. Which is about the price of a junior US developer. (Independent freelance devs try to charge about the same price that development firms charge you). This solves the time zone problem. The distribution of English proficiency amongst developers is about the same as the other places, where only occasionally you will encounter a real language barrier with one or two devs. Now that all big tech workers are digital nomads against their will, there are two entire continents that can chill on without stretching the time zone issue.