Where in Canada, though? Vancouver seems to be where everyone goes, but from what I've heard, that's led to a property boom almost as crazy as London's...
Vilnius and Tallinn are definitely highly tempting, just from the simplicity of getting set up over there from a business registration standpoint (at least in Tallinn, not quite so sure about Vilnius). There are a few concerns about Russia's attitude to the Baltics, though - probably overblown in the press over here, but we'd need to research.
Yes, that's definitely high on the list. Some of us have friends and family over there, and of course there's no need to learn another language, which helps.
Costs have been the biggest worry when looking there. Not sure about bandwidth either...? IIRC the Eve Online guys had to do their server hosting in the UK for that reason.
I think the GP was saying "outside the EU" because of our worries about the EU's political direction regarding encryption in the link at the bottom of the original post. However, logiclabs has pointed out that our worries on that point were probably misplaced.
That's a great point. Our customers are from all over the world - the US is the largest single country, but there are lots in the EU, India, Japan, Australasia, Latin America, Africa...
We'd love to start a new political party, but doing that at the same time as a startup would be, um, hard.
Thanks, that's useful to know. So that would suggest that in the EU we wouldn't even need to worry about the national government trying to ban encryption, because it would be shut down by the European courts.
Thanks! Sorting out visas etc is definitely a concern for the US, but that's a good point about encryption. It's hard to imagine Google and Facebook sitting quiet while bad stuff happened in that area.