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small town close to rome (with a decent share of corruption, crime and immobilism) but how does that relate?

I was only stating that the reasoning in your previous comment is incorrect (which, by the way, it's about italy, not your area).

I am not dumb enough to disagree on the general topic of "it's harder to start a company in corleone than in san francisco", I'm just worried by blanket statements from young people that the only chance to succeed is to change country.

Consider antirez, who ran a (successful, AFAIK) company from sicily or ciaopeople which has a decent business and is based in naples. It's harder yes, but the first N steps should be trying and failing, and only N+1 should be giving up to blaming outside forces.



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