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You get what you pay for even in LCOL places.

However the main difficulty with outsourcing is probably that the company want so save the hassle of recruiting and having employees and procures crappy programming sweatshops rather then having proper employer-employee relations.

If the goal was not to save "hassle" and cheaping out on already cheaper programmers hireing in LCOL countries would probably be a much different experience.