[grey_whiskers]

Higher-value R&D, design and marketing have stayed at home.

No, they have moved to China and India too. Ask Google, GE, and Microsoft.

No cheers, unfortunately.

Full Disclosure: Much of the third world is rife with other problems such as cronyism, pretending to work, and horrible quality and processes. So if you can't provide a solution, there's good money to be made in QA, cleaning up after them.

[Paloma_55]

Higher-value R&D, design and marketing have stayed at home.

No, they have moved to China and India too. Ask Google, GE, and Microsoft.

I would argue that the "high value" R&D jobs are still here. The low-value "here is an architecture, spend the next three weeks in a cubicle grinding it out" jobs are moving overseas.

The kicker, is that quality is so terrible on much of that stuff, the big companies are going to start realizing that the lower labor costs are offset and overwhelmed by support and warranty costs.