Even so, booming budgets have lured a few Americans east.
Mothers for Life, which has Muslim and non-Muslim members from seven countries including Canada, France and the United States, said their decision to launch the appeal on social media is part of a conscious effort to publicly challenge those who have lured their children away.
Perhaps but people said much the same about embracing a spread of sports after London 2012, before being lured back to football's great soap opera.
Pickering wrote that he was "regularly held up at gunpoint" by employees who demanded higher pay, in the form of bonuses, to prevent them being lured elsewhere.
The government has ramped up efforts to prevent more British youngsters from being lured into terrorism as a result of jihadi propaganda by rushing fresh resources into new areas from where Muslim men have travelled overseas to join Isis and other jihadi groups.
The couple claim their decision to leave the Bolshoi was a purely artistic one, but many consider that they've sold out, lured by Kekhman's money, the Moscow apartment, and ample time off for lucrative guest appearances.
The World Hockey Association successfully lured a number of the NHL's best players with a public declaration that they would not recognize the NHL's reserve clause, nor would the WHA implement one of its own.
According to migrant rights activists, many children who escape, or are lured out of emergency shelters or foster homes by the promise of employment, end up working in conditions of forced labour, packing boxes of tomatoes in basements or greenhouses in Sicily.
Khadija, 15, a Muslim girl from a poor rural family, remains traumatised by her year-long ordeal, during which she was lured to the Gulf.
The locals once tended tiny fields of fertile soil down here, but now the copper mines have lured all the able-bodied men and women away.
In the distance we can see Mount Roraima, which inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write The Lost World - the Guianas were once thought to be home to the lost city of El Dorado and lured the British, French and Dutch in search of gold.
