It's pretty straightforward. All over the developing world there are third-generation manufacturers in their late fifties who are desperate to find someone honest and reliable to run their business while they take a back seat. They have kids who have been educated in the UK or the US and who, understandably, aren't keen to return to a third world country and run a mature business with none of the challenge and excitement their parents experienced in building it up. The disadvantage is that you would have to live in some fairly poxy countries but you would live a grand lifestyle, earn good money tax free and have a lot of fun, which only appeals to a certain kind of person.
I have a good Nigerian business friend, only one of many I know who are in this position. He has recently suffered the shock of discovering that his most trusted senior staff, all Catholics like him from the same village in Nigeria as him and therefore supposedly trustworthy, were ripping him off royally, absolutely bleeding his company. A few years ago I posted on CC asking if anybody knew of a recruitment agency where my friend could find suitable candidates for a well-paid job and was absolutely slaughtered by the PC brigade for daring to mention that the candidate would ideally be European or American because that's the only sort of person my friend would be able to trust. I was pilloried as a racist.
There are thousands of jobs out there for people who fancy a few years of fun in Africa; you could take your pick.
