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Thinking of « Africa » as one place is just as poor a decision as thinking of « Middle East » as one place.

I’m sure things vary drastically between Israel, Iran and UAE.

Not sure about Iran, but Israel got support and kind of an open market with silicon valley and it's an isolated part of the ME anyway it's not like an Iraqi dev would casually go to Isreal to work lol, UAE not really special, most of the working force in tech is imported talent so the local circumstances are irrelevant.

> Iraqi dev would casually go to Isreal to work lol

Why not? Do they not have work visas like America does?

I mean considering how many undocumented people make it to America from the middle east I can't imagine it would be too hard to get into Israel.

You must know enough of the politics and history f the region to realize how unlikely it would be for an Iraqi or Iranian of any profession to simply "go work in Israel"

Politics my dude

Israel, Iran and UAE all have good infrastructure, health care and education levels. There probably is a lot of variation in the region but I don't think those three countries would capture the full range.

Africa and the Middle East are 10-sigmas.

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