http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/23/26FE-offshore-yourself-how-to_1.html

Quote :

"If your job is moving overseas, maybe you should move with it. Many American IT workers have looked with increasing worry as programming and datacenter jobs shifted to India, China, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere, with companies seeking cheap labor and Internet connectivity making offshoring a plausible business option. Or perhaps your job is staying in the United States, but being handled by an H1-B-visa-holding immigrant or a foreign consultancy such as Tata Consulting Services and Wipro that tends to import its own workers. While some companies have found offshoring to incur more costs than savings when management and quality issues are factored in, it's clear that IT jobs have been globalized and will stay that way. Even if your job is not leaving the United States, you may want to move overseas to a tech hotbed to develop new skills or simply to gain the experience of living abroad. "

anyone done this or heavily considered it?

6/23/2008 4:52:48 PM

i know a guy (friends with my GF's dad, but I know him personally too) who is moving to Costa Rica to manage IT work that is being outsourced there. He is from Ecuador before college too and his wife is from Costa Rica so its not as big of a change for them as other people but he is doing it as a permanent full time job, not as some temporary assignment. But hes going to make basically the same amount in American $s but hes going to be living like a king down there pretty much. He is going to be building a house in a pretty nice area and is getting quotes of <$50 per sqft of house

[Edited on June 23, 2008 at 5:01 PM. Reason : ]

6/23/2008 5:00:35 PM