>At least you will be replacing them instead of the other way around. I left one job a couple of years ago when all the developers were >told all development would be done in India. They had done three projects there, all disasters, but only got more committed to the idea. >I don't think that would have been the case if they had looked at the real cost (including overruns), not hourly rates. Not to mention >quality. It was also a massive PITA communicating with them, not only the language issue but the 11 hour time difference.

Once I worked on a project where the client was in Hawaii, most developers in India and some devs/analysts here in MD.
11 hour time difference to India plus 6 hours diff to Hawaii..it turned out to be an at least 12 hour job. I share the same experience: massive PITA and I had to move elsewhere.