Brett Evans

United States, for two separate reasons.

United States is all about the opportunity, the size, the market, the sector you work in, especially if it's tech.

Any word, AI, those sort of things, it's like moths to a flame.

The Middle East has been very popular for two reasons, and especially post-COVID, we saw the way that the region handled that and came out of it very strongly.

Obviously, the low or no tax environment is very appealing.

As of the 28th of February, it hasn't really softened.

It's just been put on pause, I guess you could say.

So we're still talking to a lot of folks who are coming into the Middle East, whether it's Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Riyadh.

That's still popular, but people are just seeing how this Middle East conflict goes out and whether it settles down.

You know, expats, Emiratis alike, we're all shocked.

You know, when we have twice the amount of missiles and drones compared to, say, Israel, you've got to ask that question.

So I think there's something deeper behind there based on a jurisdictional issue there that I'm probably a bit too low a pay grade to understand.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, I'm in Zurich right now presenting to Australians.

No.

Now I flew up to Geneva early this week and the plane was full.

Business is getting back on with it.

We had a brief period of alerts, but that sort of died down now.

It's funny how they've changed the process.

So actually they've embedded now