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I live in a Eastern European capital city – 2.5 million (and rising) people living here, the economy is running on steroids, so there's way too much design/advertising work lying around.
If you want a successful start as a freelancer, you should be prepared – you need 2-3 regular clients to cover your most important expenses. You also need to establish a legal entity (to issue invoices, etc.) and get a good accountant. The rest is easy – get a portfolio site running, print 200 chic business cards and start using your skills to get new projects.
Depending your talent tree you'll need some help – a developer, a prepress expert, a manager... But you can work with them on project base, they'll be happier this way ;)
I'd love to hear more stories about this :)