Where is the Caribbean on that list? Kingston, Jamaica!!
Everything down the USA seems to be South America in the OPs eyes. Cheers from Argentina!
from Buenos Aires!
Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
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#432Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Durham here.
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#433San Juan, Puerto Rico!
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#434Hong Kong, China
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#435Being from the (rest of the) US, what disturbs me about this poll is how much entrepreneurial talent we might be missing out on. At current count, ~2/3 of readers are from outside the US. These results seem to be backed up by pitdesi's post. Since HN is so centered on startups, that's quite a few founders and potential entrepreneurs who could be working on the next Google. And all things being equal, there is a 2/3 c…
Conversely, not being based in the US comes with lots of disadvantages, such as terrible payment gateways, unfriendly tax and small business legislation, and smaller networks of entrepreneurs. Here in Ede, the Netherlands, I feel pretty isolated, and I imagine a lot of people in Europe also do unless they live somewhere like London or Amsterdam.
Not being based in the US comes with advantages as well.
For example, I don't have to worry about getting health insurance for me or any employees or contractors.
This makes a big difference to startup costs and getting people to work for you.
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#436Where is the "other" option?
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#437New Zealand
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#438Hmm... Europe leads.. would be surprised if US did not come out on top by tommorrow this time .. - provided poll stays on top of course...
Looks like i was biased towards america after all.....surprising to know that, given that am in India..Hmm
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Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
#440Being from the (rest of the) US, what disturbs me about this poll is how much entrepreneurial talent we might be missing out on. At current count, ~2/3 of readers are from outside the US. These results seem to be backed up by pitdesi's post. Since HN is so centered on startups, that's quite a few founders and potential entrepreneurs who could be working on the next Google. And all things being equal, there is a 2/3 c…
Regarding your edit - I can't understand why anyone doing a startup wouldn't want to be based in the US!
Better executive talent, great engineering talent (but perhaps expensive given demand), plenty of VCs, angels etc & importantly, exit opportunities. As another commenter mentioned, the sheer amount of successes (in the Valley especially) isn't coincidence.
The Startup Visa initiative is a great idea, but is that ever going to happen? The current US immigration system is an extremely good filter at keeping generally law-abiding entrepreneurs out, but letting in the exact kind of individuals it purports to protect the US from.
If you're going to keep potential job-creators out in this economy, why let anyone in?