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Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
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#132This is the dream for many of those who left their relatives in another country from the lack of opportunities, and are seeing people they love getting older far away from them. I would certainly take the first flight to my country and try to stay close to those I love the most before it is too late.
Me too.
I thought I’d stay in the USA forever but the call of home is getting stronger.
The way things are right now I think it’d be a final decision as I’d be unlikely to get status again.
Either that or finally go for citizenship before that door slams too.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found my shared like of British humour and sarcastic outlook of life made it easy to make British friends when I lived there.
I love British humor as well! I must admit, if one drinks (I don't), it must be easier. Also, being "white" helps, I think.
> if one drinks (I don't), it must be easier.
True in the past, but a non-issue these days, especially with younger colleagues.
> Also, being "white" helps, I think
Maybe in very provincial communities in parts of the country but not in the major cities - at least not since the 90s onwards. If anything I'd say the UK is one of the more open minded countries I've seen.
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#134Deepest darkest corner of New Zealand, as long as it has an internet connection. Starlink can't come fast enough.
I can't imagine wanting to use satellite internet as my daily driver. A quick search says that the physical limit for latency is around 500ms? That's unplayable for most video games, and would make things like SSH'ing to a server pretty annoying. But I imagine you'd probably go there to get away from things, and just rely on internet when absolutely needed.
FWIW I've been using conventional (geo-stationary) satellite for the past 7 weeks. SSH is surprisingly not horrible, though it could obviously be snappier. RTT for servers that are physically ~250 km away is ~600ms. (Obviously you really shouldn't be ssh'ing into your servers anyway - that's what configuration management tools are for.)
No one wants to use satellite as their daily driver, but almost by definition some of the best places on the planet are necessarily a long way from a) people, and b) modern infrastructure. Everything is a tradeoff.
Most video games are perfectly playable -- but I suspect you meant most multiplayer video games, and yes, that latency's not going to work for you.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everytime someone says Portland, this article comes to mind: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big... My friends in Portland are all intentionally dismissive about it and for that reason I'd never suggest Portland to anybody I care about as a place to live.
The traffic is the #1 reason not to move to Portland. It's a six-lane city that only had three lanes planned for. Sure, the drivers may be better than Florida but at least Florida (outside Orlando) wasn't designed with confusing lanes the width of half a car.
Agreed that Portland isn't a great place for cars. However I think if we grow healthily as a city we can maximize public transportation, expand the MAX and street car, have dedicated bus lanes, and make it so that it isn't a problem.
The suburbs can't escape cars, but I bet we can make Portland proper a utopia for pedestrians.
I already barely use cars. It's wonderful compared to Orlando (where I happened to grow up).
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#136I may be the only person left who loves San Francisco. Just got back from biking from my house through Golden Gate Park past the De Young and Cal Academy to Cliff House and down Ocean Beach. There was sunshine and people were outside. In different circumstances, there are people dancing on roller skates, learning tango, and skateboarding. Near our house there is a great Russian Bakery, tons of Chinese restaurants on…
I mean that's great but you left out a lot of the bad parts. Human feces everywhere, homeless people, broken needles, expensive rent...
I think south bay you get less of the above with better weather.
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#137I'd probably stay in Amsterdam. It's a really nice city, my family lives nearby, my kids go to school here. There's no reason to live anywhere else.
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#138There was a phase of my life where I felt a nomadic existence would be ideal. Later I went through another phase in which I imagined finding the perfect place and establishing an amazing existence there in an environment uniquely suited to my temperament. In the current (perhaps final?) phase I realized that everything I want to do and which is important to me is connected with the place I happen to be.
>I realized that everything I want to do and which is important to me is connected with the place I happen to be.
The grass is greener on the other side for me. I always feel someplace else is better than here.
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#139I grew up in the Nashville area. I've thought about moving back there from the West coast. I have nostalgia from my childhood, but I'm also hesitant to move back for a few reasons: 1. Weather 2. Transportation 3. Discrimination The climate in the Nashville area was very hot in the summer and damn cold in the winter. My family wasn't very well off. I had a Wal-Mart coat that wasn't so great. I remember freezing my ass…
I've lived in Nashville for the past 4 years and am from a smaller city also in the south. The summers can be pretty brutal if you're out strolling around however the winters have been relatively mild while I've been here - little to no snow not many sub zero days I can remember typically it stays in the 20-30s at the worst.
The transportation system is pretty shitty, traffics pretty bad and theirs not any plan in place to improve it beyond making the roads bigger.
The discrimination I'd say is still here honestly. Some areas are more diverse like east nash but on average I dont know if I could say its improved since you lived here, but than again I'm white and have only lived here for a few years.
If ya got any questions about how its changed or what its like living here just lmk i'd be happy to answer
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#140I currently do remote work. That allowed me to leave California more than 2.5 years ago, move to a small town in Washington and get back into housing.
I was just looking for cheap rent, decent internet, a grocery store and a few eateries, basically. The town is a lot nicer than I expected it to be and I've really enjoyed living here so far.
I can certainly imagine scenarios where I would relocate, but my preference would be to shape this town into more of what I would like it to be.