Ask NH: Would you hire a person from overseas to work for your start-up?

It seems that the most of product development (not all of it, that's for certain), that involved ruby / python web development is going on in US, UK, and EU. The rest of Eurasia seems to be more involved in outsourcing / support or enterprise development. Rare Public web cases (comparing to the counties stated above).

Question is as simple as follows: would you agree to hire a person, who can speak your language (even though it's not native for him), for remote job? Or will it stop you, so you'd rather find someone closer to your area for that matter?

Thanks in advance