One assumes that direct personal services jobs such as nursing, medicine and intensive care jobs cannot be offshored or outsourced. But you have to remember that the assumption underlying this point is that the service requester cannot move to lower cost locations. See the story for an example.
But then, you will exclaim, "ah! ha!, but this is just one example". At which point, I will reply, "ah! ha!, then how do you explain the 300k Brits who emigrate every year? or the 50k who move to france? or the 80k who move to spain? or the 30k who move to USA? or the 20k who move to Australia?
It is indeed possible and lends credence to my oft stated views that offshoring and outsourcing are no longer driven by cost, but are becoming independent of service provision, providers. All parts of the supply chain, from the demand sink to the supply source are now independent because of (1) improvements of technology, (2) availability of communications, (3) cheap transport, (4) use of english, (5) flattening out of the world's demand characteristics (almost every barber around the world can give you a haircut like David Beckham or a hairdresses can give you a hair style like Jennifer Anniston, why not? they usually have their pictures hung up on the wall!).
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