Is there a place in europe where you can have the same level of freedom and entrepreneurial atmosphere that is not choked by bureaucracy and regulation? Cause i 'd love to move there, even without VC money.
It's easy to set up a new company, the overhead is minimal and there are lots of financial and other supports available from government agencies like Enterprise Ireland:
Not to mention a very strong academic community, plenty of funding available for academic collaboration and the presence of a huge number of prominent US tech companies including Google, Facebook, Twitter, eBay, PayPal...
What is the visa situation like in Ireland? How about the personal tax burden and regulatory burden? (We spent 6 months in the UK and were just constantly hounded by random bodies that believed we owed them taxes, for instance a tax on televisions (we didn't have one.))