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This month Dr. Nic suggested Australians for your open job positions but I totally recommend Austrians. And here are my reasons for:

• Austrians are more laid back than Australians. Actually they are so laid back that they are a few positions after Australia in your encyclopedia.
• Austria is on the right, the top side of your globe (or Pizza). That means less travel costs if you like to spend your winter holidays in Norway.
• Austria has no boring deserts like Australia but a great variety of desserts.
• Austria is a safe place for everyone with kangaroos-phobia. And without a coastline you don’t have to fear sharks that kill hundreds of australian rails developers every year.
• There are no dumb jokes about Austrians. They are in fact all true, sad stories.
• Austrians are three-lingual. They talk Austrian, German (in theory) and English. And an Austrian talking English sounds much more funny than a Italian talking English while you still understand the Austrian. German is also in the same family of languages like English or the superior Norwegian.
• Austria has a long and outstanding nautical history. They once owned an actual mediteranian city. Nowadays they retreated from the costly shipping business to concentrate on the rails-fu.
• Austria has Sound of Music, Mozart and Falco. A lot better than Tamara Jaber, Joe Dolce or Jacko. Science says that rails developers write better rspec tests if they listen to Austrian music.
• The Terminator is Austrian. And he’ll find you if you hire an Australian. Gov. Schwarzenegger’s latest action against the economic slowdown is sending californian php devs to austria to train them in ruby on rails.
• Austrians are modest. They are so modest that they let the honor of starting two world wars to the german brothers in arms.
• Austrian is a neutral country like Switzerland but with a higher density of open source ruby on rails developers.
• For every Austrian you can get ten germans for free. Actually in Vienna there are 25% Austrians, 25% former jugoslavia and 50% German. Germans are well known for delivering 95% of code quality as Austrian developers but are 90% cheaper.
• Austria has real alps and not only Australian Alps.
• Vienna Rails developers are very urbane. Last time we went to a Australian pub and drank Belgian beer all night.
• And: Austria is not an isolated island somewhere south.

Disclaimer: I’m German but was raised in a small valley surrounded by Austria and moved to Vienna last year which I’ll never regret.