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I feel like if you sacrifice enough in wages you can always have a fascinating job. And moving to a developing country can leave you with a roughly equivalent salary after adjusting for purchasing powe parity. I don't have hard data but that's what I've been doing for the last four years.

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Interesting. So you do freelance/consulting work and are really picky about the projects you take on, or what?

No, I'm CTO at a small NGO in Bogotá that models the effects of government policy. Which I got because a friend started the NGO. So I guess I'm not evidence that such opportunities are rife.

But they do seem to be. Native English speakers are quite valuable in their own right here. And there's a strong big-fish-small-pond effect if you're an expert in something. Research tends to be written in English, as does documentation.

Work for gov particularly police or some kind of job where you have to deal w social stuff. City gov is the best for this as you get a lot of flexibility

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