Nalamalapu is amazed at the way computers and the Internet are continually changing his life. He bought his home in Falmouth over the Internet, and his wife just bought her new Volkswagen Passat with the aid of the web. Since Portland has little to offer in the way of authentic Indian groceries, Ashok orders spices and other culinary reminders of his homeland India over the Internet from a specialty store in San Francisco. Currently, he travels to India about once a year to check on operations in Hyderabad, India, but he expects the frequency to grow along with the companies' growth, which has been steady at about 43 percent a year, fast enough for Nalamalapu. I could have doubled or tripled the size of iCST by now if I was located in New York or San Francisco, but I love the quality of life in Maine.
People are nice and the pace of life is better than in Philadelphia.