What time management methodology are you using? I use the Pomodoro Technique, but am willing to try something new. As a freelancer I fight against not being efficient with my time every day, and pay the consequences myself. Whenever I visit corporate clients I'm appalled at how they waste precious man hours.

I'm from Argentina, a country that has a lot of developers working in the US for top tier companies, I live there as well.

Let me tell you... people stay or leave in my country depending on our own economic situation, future outlook, and willingness to expatriate. If the US lowered the number of visas people here would instead leave for Europe (most likely Spain, Germany or the UK for programmers), or Mexico, or Brazil, and the choice would depend more on cultural preferences than on anything else.

Also, many people working abroad eventually return and share their experience with locals. The mindset of someone willing to leave and never return is quite particular, and it's probably impossible to keep those in.

Oh, and please do check AirBNB.com for short term rental of either full apartments or private rooms. In both cases you should be able to get decent Wi Fi, a nice place to work, and in the latter perhaps even people to mingle with.

I've been around Europe last april (Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brugues) and had a much harder time than I expected finding WiFi. I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and there's WiFi almost everywhere here... most bars and cafes have it, shopping malls have it, etc. In Europe there were Wi Fi connections everywhere, but very very few of them were public. Some belonged to phone / internet providers and were available for their customers only. McDonald's and Starbucks are the places that most often guarantee connectivity and a socket to plug your laptop... however I once had a problem trying to work from a McD because they blocked all internet ports except 80 (no FTP, no SSH, I couldn't even access my hosting provider's control panel, which is HTTP but runs at a custom port). I promised myself to get some sort of prepaid data plan next time I'm in Europe because otherwise you have to search a lot for internet access.

... The problem is, I've been told, most europeans already have a phone with an internet connection, so they have little use for Wi Fi outside of their homes. So they're not getting better coverage, but probably less as time goes by.

As an argentine actor (working in independent theater, not commercial) I'm surprised by your comments. Here in Argentina musical theater is a very popular form which goes far beyond "teatro de revista"... both through or own productions (Dracula, El Jorobado de Notre Damme, etc.) as well as excelent local adaptations of foreign plays (Les Miserables, Chicago, Hedwigg and the angry inch, etc.) performed by some of our most talented singer/actors... ... and just as well american and british have excelent "serious theater" actors, plays and playwrights. Heard of David Mamet? Tennessee Williams? Lee Strasberg's actors studio?

Also, I think you're too quick to dismiss wonderful musicals such as The Lion King, Mel Brooks' The Producers or Avenue Q... which might not rate as high as Moliere or Shakespeare... but what does?

Check out Dspace (http://www.dspace.org/). I'm by no means an expert in the area but it seems it might be what you need.

The content could be linked directly by IP or using an international domain... it doesn't need to be in a .com. And making a rule such as "no site hosted on a .com domain can link to adult/porn material unless said material is hosted in a .xxx domain" would be almost impossible, starting with the difficulty it would pose to Google/Bing Images and similar sites.

My opinion was original and I first stated it one or two days ago to a friend of mine before reading TFA. I don't think it's so original that nobody else can come up with it on their own.