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by underdeserver 476 days ago
Problem is in these countries there just aren't enough opportunities. There are very, very few places in the world you can get a Stanford PhD - including the atmosphere, colleagues, labs, money.

Before you can even invest the immense time and effort needed to build that kind of environment, you need the will of the people, and in most of the world you don't have that.