Yes, of course. I even considered the USA and SF in particular (health insurance, immigration and rental costs all deterred me), Chile (distance and isolation from my customers deterred me), elsewhere in the EU (language deterred me, but I did think that Greece would be a very good option at the moment) and finally elsewhere in the UK.
On that last one, a lot of the ability to survive on barely sufficient income is in making it go a long way. The majority of my users are London based and supporting the startup and keeping me personally just the right side of the line when it comes to money related things (they don't give me cash, but they help out in other ways). I've been helped out with feedback, customers, the friends investment round (where friends = very dedicated users who have become friends), coffee, cheese, washing powder (damn that stuff is expensive when you're only spending £40 per week on groceries for two), and then there's more than one dinner that has been cooked in different parts of London.
I knew all along, that if I were not somewhere the costs were dramatically in my favour, or that the opportunity is dramatically the wind in my sails, that I should stay where the support is greatest. And the support in London is extensive, not just from my users but also from a very intense and growing startup ecosystem (one of the computers in use in the office came from the one of the users of the freenode IRC room ##LDNstartups ).
So yes, considered it... weighed options, stayed put.
On that last one, a lot of the ability to survive on barely sufficient income is in making it go a long way. The majority of my users are London based and supporting the startup and keeping me personally just the right side of the line when it comes to money related things (they don't give me cash, but they help out in other ways). I've been helped out with feedback, customers, the friends investment round (where friends = very dedicated users who have become friends), coffee, cheese, washing powder (damn that stuff is expensive when you're only spending £40 per week on groceries for two), and then there's more than one dinner that has been cooked in different parts of London.
I knew all along, that if I were not somewhere the costs were dramatically in my favour, or that the opportunity is dramatically the wind in my sails, that I should stay where the support is greatest. And the support in London is extensive, not just from my users but also from a very intense and growing startup ecosystem (one of the computers in use in the office came from the one of the users of the freenode IRC room ##LDNstartups ).
So yes, considered it... weighed options, stayed put.