[patrickg]

"These rules are also very difficult to discover and very difficult to implement correctly. From the situation with healthcare for your employees through to filing your taxes correctly, the amount of paperwork is insane and complex."

Sorry, but reading this is raising a question if the author of this blog article has experienced this himself or just hearing about it. The bigger your company is, the more complex tax forms and other things will become. But as a small startup company it is very easy to do taxes etc. You don't even have to fill out a standardized form for declaring your business income if you are a small company (EÜR in Germany). I was afraid of all this as well, but starting the company here is really easy, there are a lot of government/local institutions that help you with everything, even the IRS answers your questions if you have any.

I cannot judge on the other things, but they sound - as other said here - like the other grass is always greener.