Generally speaking, unless you are a contractor, it's hard to work for a company unless they have an office in the country where you live. So, while it's not a

Generally speaking, unless you are a contractor, it's hard to work for a company unless they have an office in the country where you live. So, while it's not an island, a good example of what you are talking about might be Monaco. Basically the entire country (tiny as it is) is filled with super rich people. But you can't easily work from Monaco because high tech companies do not have offices there. I have essentially the same problem in Japan. I mean, big companies usually have offices in Tokyo, but if I want to work for a startup somewhere, it's always going to be contracting. For a variety of reasons, that's sometimes not desirable (and a lot of companies refuse to hire contractors for lots of other reasons). So, basically, the only way you're likely to run into this is if you move to SF, which is usually no problem ;-)