Thiruvananthapuram offers best ITITES infrastructure: Survey 1605

Les Cargill There's a curious reversal going on in NW Arkansas; after decades of exporting personnel to both coasts, there is now a net *immigration*.

business climate. Since I'm not familiar with what its like in India, Asia, or the US hitech areas, make of it what you will.

But I've lived in the Ozarks for most of the last 30 years, with some time spent in Upstate NY (RIT at Rochester home of IBM, Kodak, Bausch & Loam, Xerox.. where these firms designed the academic program to suit their professional needs) and see some advantages to AR.

From a personal standpoint, land is 500-1000$-acre with lots of hydro reservoirs for the view, lakefront homes, recreation, etc. Former gov Clinton's reforms have had a powerful impact on the school systems in eliminating patronage and nepotism, and replacing incompetence with teachers who like working with kids who want to learn, even if the salary is 2nd lowest in the nation.

The high ratio of family farms in the area has a powerful effect on the culture kids grow up in. I went to a rave on 7-22. No dreds. No gang bangers, few tattoos and piercings.

The first thing that gov Huckabee did taking office was eliminate motor vehicle inspection. AR never has had a building code, and there are many other such aspects that add up to a political system that dont havta be paid off to get anything done.

4br houses on 10 acres: 75,000$. The strip city that has evolved along US 71 has no urban core, so it has no urban traffic jams. Engineers can drive home on the same kind of steep twisty 2 lane blacktop you see in the new car ads. and when you add it all up, they can accept the same salary they'd need to get by in Bangalore.

Hence immigration.