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Ask HN: What's the best place in the U.S. to live and work cheaply?

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Re: Ask HN: What's the best place in the U.S. to live and work cheaply?

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Post by joshmlewis »

Greenville, SC

It's a perfect blend of small/big town atmosphere. The downtown has won awards and you can live right next to everything for rather cheap. I rented a 3 bedroom apartment on Main Street for around $1200 a month and ended up making money on rent through renting out the extra rooms. It has an incubator, code school, and lively coworking space and a ton of great restaurants. You also have a few colleges on the outskirts of town as well.

Check: http://lifeingreenville.com/

Re: Ask HN: What's the best place in the U.S. to live and work cheaply?

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Post by sullivanmatt »

Central Iowa has a growing tech / startup sector that is home to many new tech companies. Cost of living is insanely low. I live in Ames, Iowa and work for a medium-sized tech company founded in 2008. Salaries here are comparable to what you'd find in Minneapolis or Kansas City, but with an even lower cost of living. If you're going to bootstrap a startup, Central Iowa is the place to be. Lots of talent and super low costs.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best place in the U.S. to live and work cheaply?

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Post by mud_dauber »

mbesto wrote: post #19
ajepst wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to mention that it's a great city for devs, especially considering its modest size. It's not Silicon Valley, but there's multiple developer events in town pretty much every night of the week every month. For instance: want to go to a python-specific event? Well, there's the Austin Python meetup, the Austin Web Python meetup, Austin PyLadies, Austin Learn Python, Python Pub Crawlers... all active groups. I'm proba…

I third this. Austin, is IMO, the best place right now to develop software if you want to do it for cheap. Great balance between cost of living, opportunity, and access to resources.

Here's a fourth. Just understand that Austin's cheaper than the Bay Area. Just not cheap. (Try finding a decent apartment.)

Re: Ask HN: What's the best place in the U.S. to live and work cheaply?

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Post by _mayo »

Columbus, Ohio. It very much is a big city with a small town feel. You can get a place in or around the city for less that $1k easily. We have a thriving art and music scene, a couple professional sports teams (NHL & MLS). We have the third largest university campus in the US (OSU) so they're a lot of young, smart people around. We may not have the largest startup scene, but it's definitely growing with people doing interesting things.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best place in the U.S. to live and work cheaply?

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Post by jreed91 »

sullivanmatt wrote: post #25

Central Iowa has a growing tech / startup sector that is home to many new tech companies. Cost of living is insanely low. I live in Ames, Iowa and work for a medium-sized tech company founded in 2008. Salaries here are comparable to what you'd find in Minneapolis or Kansas City, but with an even lower cost of living. If you're going to bootstrap a startup, Central Iowa is the place to be. Lots of talent and super low…

Good to see another Iowan here. We really are a growing tech area. With both Facebook and Google data centers we'll continue gain more talent
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