well ghee whiz cowboy - let us know when poor people no longer need to die of treatable illness in your country...
I think part of the UK silicon valley is called the M4 corridor - the other part is in Scotland. With a country with fast internal communications (partly but far from wholly a function of size) location is less important. You can find great software developers and great engineers just about anywhere.
Well, I grew up under US Gov health care (IHS), and I'll take private practice anytime (they almost killed my Dad (too much blood thinner) and mis-diagnosed my and my brother's backs among other things).
Check your tax structure, it doesn't help.
This whole tax versus no health care is such a crock. The high taxes don't buy good health care - heck - they don't even buy decent social services. I am neither a Republican or Democrat (shame the US only has two parties of note), and really didn't like how Pres. Bush spent our money nor am I happy about the current Pres. Government needs fundamental restructuring and barring that - cutting off most of the tax money at least keeps it from interfering too much.
