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Re: Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?

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Post by dang »

User23 wrote: post #9
fredsmith219 wrote: post #8

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Who made you the judge of where people get to live?

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You've been breaking the site guidelines egregiously lately—in fact, you've been an asshole repeatedly, such as in this thread and these:

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That's seriously not ok. We ban accounts that do this, and in fact have had to ask you many times in the past to stop doing this. I don't want to ban you, because you've also posted good things and it doesn't seem like you've been breaking the rules consistently. But if you don't fix this, we're going to have to.

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Re: Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?

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Post by cbanek »

Just wait a bit and see what happens in the housing market. I'm not saying it's ready for a crash, but sometimes renting for a year means everything will change. You can rent in a small town (cheap) or just stay where you are at for a while.

Everyone is thinking like you during the pandemic when remote work was the norm. That pushed up housing prices in weird places, like Boise, and other places like Sedona. Places that are small, typically tourist places, but very nice and pretty. The lack of housing has pushed up prices to ridiculous levels, but once the market corrects, it'll be a different world.

Re: Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?

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Post by cbanek »

rswerve wrote: post #4

College towns. Pick some states, and go visit towns with colleges in them. They'll have restaurants and groceries, and those faculty kids have to go to school somewhere. Internet should be passable, too. They won't be the cheapest small town option, but houses should come in well below a million bucks. The one town you mention, Lancaster, PA, is a model of the type.

This is where it's at. College towns are the best. They are the gems. Smaller, but with a large group of people from all over, you get that diversity you probably want. With people from all over, you get great food from all over, languages, neat people, art, etc.

Another college town I like is Eugene, or Ellensberg. Flagstaff maybe? Depends on your climate, look for colleges with maybe 10k-ish students? Another one that I can't stand because of the weather is Champagne Urbana. 10 minute drive out from town, and you're in farmland.

Re: Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?

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Post by imgabe »

pontifier wrote: post #39

My method sure hasn't worked very well... or has it? I was looking for cheap warehouse space to start a business in, and did a nation-wide search for the largest, cheapest building in the entire continental US. I found one that seemed too good to be true. a 220,000 sqft metal warehouse and office complex on 17 acres. I thought the price was a typo at $375k.The agent assured me that the price was correct, and I flew o…

Out of curiosity, what did you use to conduct a nationwide search where you can set price / sf parameters?

Is there a tool that can do that, or did you piece together data from multiple sources?

I've heard most of the commercial real estate that's publicly listed is just the deals that the pros have already passed on.

Re: Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?

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Post by novia »

rswerve wrote: post #4

College towns. Pick some states, and go visit towns with colleges in them. They'll have restaurants and groceries, and those faculty kids have to go to school somewhere. Internet should be passable, too. They won't be the cheapest small town option, but houses should come in well below a million bucks. The one town you mention, Lancaster, PA, is a model of the type.

please don't price students out of college towns...

Re: Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?

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Post by jack_pp »

Natsu wrote: post #115
throwaway5959 wrote: post #110

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https://ibb.co/tPbXWhB Taken on I62 on the drive into Harrison.

I believe you about the billboard, but man, that is the blurriest picture and I can't make out a single word on that sign.

It says "It's not racist to <3 people" and the website is WhitePrideRadio.com

Re: Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?

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Post by [deleted] »

oplav wrote: post #73
dcolkitt wrote: post #57

Generally think college towns around land grant universities are a very underrated option. Outside the immediate area around the campus core they tend to be cheap because of an abundance of land. These towns tend to be very educated and cosmopolitan, with maybe not a ton of cultural options but certainly a few high quality ones.

+1. I currently live in a college town like you describe (land grant public university, surrounded by farmland). The “downtown” is vibrant. The university draws a lot of international students so cuisine and culture are diverse. Housing is cheap.

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Re: Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?

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Post by cpach »

novia wrote: post #155
rswerve wrote: post #4

College towns. Pick some states, and go visit towns with colleges in them. They'll have restaurants and groceries, and those faculty kids have to go to school somewhere. Internet should be passable, too. They won't be the cheapest small town option, but houses should come in well below a million bucks. The one town you mention, Lancaster, PA, is a model of the type.

please don't price students out of college towns...

Doesn’t US students mostly live in dorms…?
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