Except huge piles of money, that is...

Our company has well over a billion dollars in business there doing engineering/construction management. There's gotta be maybe a dozen more big companies like ours there for the same reason.

So long as the money flows, people will go, some stupid, some just plain ignorant.

I was asked to go, twice. I declined. I am making enough money now. Greed is a good motivator, though.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)