I’m a Brit. However, I took advantage of the fact that I live overseas to choose to do business online from an American perspective. At the time I made this choice (1997) because US companies were–and still are–much more open to letting their employees telecommute.

The attitude is ‘if you can do the job, who cares where you are.’ And this is precisely as it should be. Instead of noticing the gap and trying to do something about it, the UK seems to be falling even further behind with draconian laws like these: UK Online Marketing Blog