At the end of the day you have to find resources at a rate you can afford. I simply could not find local resources. Or put another way, I could not afford the going rate of the local scarce resources. So I went offshore and have not looked back. The people I am working with a good guys and I consider them to be friends.

And the good ones are not dummies. They know they going rate for development work and charge a healthy sum for their services. So it is not always about the lowest cost provider.

Long way of saying that if you have to, don't be afraid to offshore/outsource.