Since you bring it up, Dhirubhai Ambani, who was a major Indian businessmen did something like this in his early career. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhirubhai_Ambani#Life_in_Aden" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhirubhai_Ambani#Life_in_Aden</a>