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London is great. So are many other large and diverse multinational cities. Many of them also happen to be great for in-office tech job opportunities.
Isn’t weather too gloomy? It’s very difficult for people who can’t thrive in non-sunny often weather.
New York * most diverse and cosmopolitan English-speaking and relatively-free city in the world, by far * compact with good public transit, creating an incredibly high points of interest per commute hour ratio - the best metric for measuring urban qol * not the BEST tech/entrepreneurial communities, but still has very good ones, and is better rounded than the very top tier tech hubs: high quality art, design, games,…
I love it for so many reasons, but that one aspect does wear on me.
If I can work from anywhere in the world, why in all flying hells would I work from a city?
For me personally, quality of life. No need for a car, I love theatre and as a kid I had to commute two hours to get to the next chess club because I lived in the middle of nowhere.
Enough good restaurants to not be boring, two hours to Boston, two and a half to Montreal (by car) and NYC (by air) for easy weekend trips if you need a big city fix.
Where I am now, nearish to central Vancouver. I'd love to live in other places for some time for other reasons, but they're all cities in Europe with different ages and cultures. Smaller places are great to visit, but are boring and lack breadth of novelty. It takes me 4 mins to walk to the gym where I bump into people I'm gradually getting to know, then 2 mins to the next cafe where I might get to know someone, then…
wow really? I'm currently in Richmond and i've finding the housing issue here so out of hand that it's depressing... Even with FAANG salary my friends are finding it tough to afford a decently sized home :l
If I had to choose one, it'd be Stockholm (or perhaps any Swedish city with water access). A couple years back I did take a two-week trip there consisting of one week sightseeing, one week remotely working for a West Coast agency. My work hours were around 4pm to 1am-2am Stockholm time, which was just on the edge of comfortable. My reasoning is as follows: 1) Fast internet everywhere I went, even the countryside 2) G…
I've been here for a few years and would agree with most of your points. I absolutely love it. Boat trips into the archipelago in the summer months are the icing on the cake of an amazing place to live.
As for the language thing - you can (and lots do) live here without learning Swedish. There are also various intensive courses (e.g. at Folkuniversitetet) that will get you up to a dull-conversational level quite quickly.
As an ex-Londoner, the house prices seem very reasonable - we've just moved into a 3 bedroom apartment in the suburbs with a view of the lake and adjacent to a nature reserve. In London the same money might have bought us a pokey 1 or 2 bedroom flat.
London had more arts and so on, and I miss the English language theatre stuff, but in general it's just an amazing place to live. Now, you must excuse me, we're off to see Candide at Kunliga Operan :P
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How? Its not diverse at all compared to a city like London. Unless you are a German/looks likes one it's a poor city to be in.
Berlin has all the benefits and little to none of the disadvantages of a place like London. Why does a place need to be diverse to be great? Does the absence of a heap of Mincéirs make a city worse?
* Safe
* Affordable
* Great weather with no extremes (snow, storms, heatwaves)
* Close to the sea with beaches and piers for walking
* Not overcrowded
* Great public transport
* Close to mountains for hikes
* Good pubs and restaurants with lots of variety
* Good looking women
* Good internet
If anyone has any suggestions please say! I don't think a place like this exists.
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere. I currently live in a small town in the mountains. Love the mountain aspect of it. The townspeople are progressive in some ways (they try to be 'woke'), but extremely regressive when it comes to development (NIMBYism on steroids). Housing is a major problem, all the restaurants are shit, nothing gets built pretty much ever, most of the tax burden is on the few businesses there are,…
Off topic but [maybe] relevant... > Somewhere in the middle of nowhere. A part of me too desires this. For a software engineer, what you need most is good network connectivity, which is now possible in many places. The other part of me is convinced that would not be a good move in the long run. If I move away from the city, my kids' education will suffer, my mother (who also lives with me) will lose the social connec…
In an ideal world, these are in no order: * Safe * Affordable * Great weather with no extremes (snow, storms, heatwaves) * Close to the sea with beaches and piers for walking * Not overcrowded * Great public transport * Close to mountains for hikes * Good pubs and restaurants with lots of variety * Good looking women * Good internet If anyone has any suggestions please say! I don't think a place like this exists.