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If I had to make one choice, Brazil. California is about one generation away from being Brazil. At any rate, anyone with an interest in South America knows tha
by mynameishere 18y ago
If I had to make one choice, Brazil.
California is about one generation away from being Brazil. At any rate, anyone with an interest in South America knows that the best bet is Uruguay. Check out the flag for starters:
http://www.newspapercountry.com/Uruguay.png http://www.newspapercountry.com/Uruguay.png
- rms 18y agoI had always leaned towards Argentina, but Uruguay sounds pretty good... beyond the kick-ass flag and general liberalness, what makes Uruguay so great?
- mynameishere 18y agoIt's basically like Argentina or Chile without the revolutionary rumblings.
- wallflower 18y agoIf you are considering Argentina, you can infer a lot about the Buenos Aires tech scene from this: http://osdir.com/ml/culture.people.kragen.journal/2007-09/msg00000.html http://osdir.com/ml/culture.people.kragen.journal/2007-09/ms...
- helveticaman 18y agoArgentina? BA is nice, I agree, but the economy goes down the drain every twelve years. I'm not talking about US-style depressions with lost jobs and protests; I'm talking starving children, a different president every week, and politicians escaping in helicopters. Of course, if you arrive right after a flush, everything's cheap. But do you really want to deal with an economy as chaotic as your startup's? I know of businesses that are really reluctant to do business in Argentina because of government corruption, particularly mining companies. Brazil sounds better, but it isn't SV. If I had to be in Latin America, I'd be (OK, I am) in Santiago. The country is run by engineer entrepreneurs, taxes are really low, the economy is very well managed (moreso than that of US, for instance) and labor is relatively cheap. But, having tried to do a startup here, I can see why SV is the place to be. You just don't hit other uranium atoms often enough.