Then think about the fact that Dublin is one of the most expensive capitals in the world.

You might expect as well nice weather with the ‘Silicon Valley’ in Ireland? Wrong, unless you like gray days most of time and humid blows of wind that strike cold straight into your bones (I can only recall the sky in Quake 3 when I think about it).

On the other hand, as Yuri mentioned Romania earlier, Romania has 16% tax for everyone - that’s right, corporations and their employees can both make a living there.

But i’d like to tell you that not everything is cheap means also it has the highest quality. A couple of weeks ago i found a proiect on that well known Rent-A-Coder where the Buyer has described in his project that he does not wish to work anymore with coders from India as all his past projects was given to coder from that country and 100% of the projects has failed at an early stage.

Now he is more willing to pay more money and from now on he can give another chance to those coders but only if they accept to work for 50% less from the maximum budget.

Let’s not spread out the Internet with such things about the coders from Romania, Russia, Ukraine. It is ok, i agree that here the prices are lower, that’s the idea of Rent-A-Coder for example and the reason why so many Buyers are posting there their projects, but also every entrepreneur must understand that with $10 you can’t get good services. NEVER my man, NEVER!

Get the average salary from Romania, get the average salary from Germany. Let’s say we are talking about “2 money” in Romania and “10 money” in Germany. 10+2=12, 12/2=6

Just offer “6 money” to a good romanian coder and you have a good business! You save money and you have the guarantee of a good work force. I’m talking about the really good ones. Don’t look to the really cheap guys.

Thanks for your attention.

Cordialy,
Henrich
http://www.henrich.ro

Oi, go take a nap! You might even need a longer one ’cause you’re having a nasty hangover mate.

You’re out of this world when you talk about Romania. It might not be the richest country in EU but what you say is just stupid. I personally payed romanian lads with 2000 euros/2 weeks or 4000 euros/month, for your mathematics, just to give you an example.

If you wanna hire some inmates to do you… well, is a free world mate. Feel free to do this. But watch out for your rear end, ’cause they might program your ass all the way up to your throat.

Cheers!

Might sound racist, but gotta tell ya: stop drinking that much vodka and please, next time you think about shoveling shit in others’ faces, at least get more information about the topic you’d want to discuss.

Have a nice day!

He shouldn’t come here, since they came about 60 years ago and forgot to leave. I personally think that Yuri is jealous that Romania is an EU member…

People in the UK have a saying: you get what you pay for…

Being able to start up a company with very little money is just a myth. Let’s not forget that there re some costs related to development. For instance> can someone develop and test a decent and innovative web application on a computer that’s 9 years old? And how about marketing? Is it free? Of course not.

This is precisely why the EU will never have a Silicon Valley, because the important factors that determine the start up and evolution of a company come in different flavors across the EU, one flavor being suitable for certain business profile while another flavor (being suitable) for another (business profile).

I think it is important to note that the availability of all these flavors is good for competition.

‘tu’ți nația mătii de rusnac bășit . păi la tine în țară dacă n-are taica 1 metru pătrat de platformă petrolieră tu ce faci mă? pușcărie , tată , că voi chiar vă omorâți pentru mâncare , Dumnezeii mătii de handicapat!

Could someone moderate yuri’s comment please? it’s outrageous!

So true. In fact, right now I am typing this from my mobile phone while imprisoned in a local Romanian jail (we’re corrupt so you can bribe the guards and bring mobile phones in, yes). I was arrested for spamming charges and now I have to lay low for a couple of years then maybe I start over again (hey, web 2.0 has different meanings for everybody, ok?)

I like to code to kill the extra free time I have in between the showers and the meals. And yes, Romania is really cheap, you can incorporate for less than $1 - you should really give it a chance.

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Please, stop being ignorant about the rest of the world, it’s not polite. Come visit, enjoy and draw conclusions based on empiric evidence, ey?

Thank you

A lot has been made lately about becoming the next silicon valley, Brendon Wilson is going to be talking about the subject on a regular basis on the TechVibes blog and has posted on it a couple of times already,…

@74 - Bangalore is your SV. Pretty much already decided. Europe is developed in many different areas.