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As far as working remotely: SSH sucks to use over the Atlantic. It's very very slow and the delay makes it no fun. Not sure if that was part of what you wanted to know. I can't give you much idea about taxes since it's the other way around for me.

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Thanks for the heads up. How slow are we talking here? And is ssh 100% necessary all the time? or only when it's time to push to production? Sorry if these seem like pedestrian questions; I've never done freelance work before, so I need to understand what I'm getting into.

Also, what do you mean it's the other way around for you wrt taxes?

"Freelance work" is an extremely broad term, so it's hard to answer. Taxes are 100%-country dependent, so you'll need to research it on country-per-country basis. For example, in Poland I pay 9% on everything up to ~$28k, then 14% on the next $17k and 25% on everything above that. For that, I receive the free (state-provided) health care. On the other hand, I imagine that countries such as Germany or especially France would take much more of your pay.

I have no problem at all with SSH (SSH-ing from Poland to us-east EC2 machines), so it probably varies by country/ISP.

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