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Tech companies will headquarter anywhere but central America.
by mc4ndr3 4y ago
Tech companies will headquarter anywhere but central America.
- snthpy 4y agoWell, not seeing too many here in Africa either.
- csmpltn 4y ago> "Well, not seeing too many here in Africa either." Microsoft has recently opened a development center in Kenya.
- Schopenhauer01 4y agoIs it just support? Do they do dev?
- LadyCailin 4y agoActual engineering work https://news.microsoft.com/en-xm/features/furthering-our-investment-in-africa-microsoft-opens-first-africa-development-centre-in-kenya-and-nigeria/ https://news.microsoft.com/en-xm/features/furthering-our-inv...
- smcin 4y ago"two initial sites in Nairobi, Kenya and Lagos, Nigeria... intend to recruit 100 full-time engineers by the end of the year [2022] – expanding to 500 across the two sites by 2023"
- Scientificx 4y ago
- google234123 4y agoIf they could deal with the huge transnational organized crime and drug trafficking problem then I sure there would be more people moving to the Central America region.
- lordofgibbons 4y agoTransnational organized crime in Costa Rica? First time I've heard of that
- google234123 4y agoCherry picking is a fallacy.
- lordofgibbons 4y agoIs it though? It clearly invalidates your over-generalization of the region.
- Kranar 4y agoCosta Rica has the same population as Metro Toronto and 15 times the rate of violent crime. It might be better than some of its neighbors but it doesn't remotely compare favorably to Europe or Canada.
- thawaya3113 4y agoAnd Canada likely has better reporting as well (because countries with low crime usually tend to have better reporting and countries with high crime tend to have worse), so the true difference may be even higher.
- hahaxdxd123 4y agoYes, because rule of law is important?