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Bulgaria in brief:

- EU and NATO member

- 10% corporate tax rate

- 10% personal income tax, flat rate

- Among lowest operational cost in a European market economy

- Duty free trade covering markets with over 550 m customers

- English language studied by 70% of students

- 7% of workforce has engineering degrees

- Macroeconomic and financial stability - one of the lowest government debts among EU countries - less than 20%.

You can register Ltd for about 100 EUR, office prices - about 8 EUR/sq.m.

You lost team spirit, but this is not because of the distance. It is either "team culture" or your personal skills.

This is due to mediocre middle/upper management. For them it is a huge difference if you are the building next to theirs or in some rural area, although in both cases you will communicate through the wire.

The business is already global, soon or later they'll have to accept this.

You've pretty much outlined all the pros and cons of working remotely. However working remotely is not so common in Europe than it is in US. Probably Europe is lacking behind with 5+ years, because most of the companies here are still on the "top-notch MBA consulting" staff. I still meet people who make their living from 2 excel files they copied from their Big4 internship :)

You said you are the only guy outside US. Have you tries looking for something "nearby"?

If you see the trend, it is definitely sinking...

This is the infographic about the foreign fighters in ISIS by their originating country: http://www.rferl.org/contentinfographics/infographics/265849...

I don't want to be right, but I thinks we should expect worse things in future :|

Your great anti-NATO super-conspiracy theoretic makes me thing you are Russian, right?

You can create global filters in Google Analytics by going to Administration -> Global Filters

create a new custom filter for field Referrer and exclude the spammy site from there (do not forget to escape the dot \.)

For me the interesting part was the tablet he brought back from DPRK. It contained 70+ books with their leader' speeches, but they somehow customized the Android so it is not possible to extract them :D

France has been welcoming people from their African ex-colonies for years - Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, Nigeria, Gambia, etc. At the same time they treated east Europeans as as something even worse than those above.

Just to remind you that the most popular baby name for 2014 in UK is Muhammed (according to Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/muhammed-real...)