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

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

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>I ended up buying about 75 more properties here You have the kind of money to casually buy up all this real estate, but you still went bargain-hunting for a warehouse? This reads like some kind of LARP or joke.

I bought the warehouse before I really had the money to do it. I was scraping by on ramen for a while. Buying the others was honestly WAY, WAY, WAY cheaper than you'd expect. I almost didn't feel like I had a choice it was so cheap. Spent about $130k at a tax auction to get them all. It almost feels like land is the only thing they can't steal around here.

Pine Bluff's population has declined by 50% over the last few decades, presumably the reason they were so cheap is that there's a huge supply surplus? And given the murder rate is 10x the national average I don't see demand for property increasing. In short, run for the hills!

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

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Doesn’t US students mostly live in dorms…?

The first year, yeah. After that, people start moving out. I don’t know anybody who lived in a dorm from the third year onward. But yeah, what poor college students trying to get a start on life and grad students making pocket change really need is some 400k/year tech workers to flood into their town, say “wow! Only 2500 a month!” and make it impossible to live anywhere. Also, dorms are insanely expensive. And wantin…

Not really sure what to respond. Should people in the US not be free to move to any town they want? Seems like an odd take IMO.

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

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No they really don't. It was a terrible attitude and a bad comment. The poster would be bringing money into the community. They would be paying taxes; if they buy a house, there will probably be property taxes, which typically support local utilities, schools, libraries, etc. They'd be shopping at local stores. The poster asked about schools, so they probably have or will have at least one kid - so purchasing things…

Every item you mention in your post, only concerns money. Do you see that materialistic attitude as accurately representing your views?

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

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Anything near to the Canada border? I'm thinking about climate change, and I have changed drastically the idea of " where my future home" will be. In 10-20 years things will get worse I imagine.

Tangential, but you might benefit from reading the book "How to Prepare for Climate Change" by David Pogue - it has (among much else) a lot of information about how different areas of the US are likely to be affected by climate change, which should inform any sensible person's decision about where to move to or away from. (Protip: don't buy coastal property in Florida.) I liked the book but the only problem for me is…

I don't know why you and the parent post are being downvoted. I also live in EU and would be interested in information specific to this region.

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

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This is where the UK is great. It has lots of well connected by train towns. You can commute for a night out in London but live a generally quiet life in anything from a tiny hamlet to something like Cambridge which is a small city.

Most places close enough for "take the train for a night out in London" will (practically by definition) be "you can commute into London for work from here" places, though, with correspondingly high house prices. Certainly Cambridge is not cheap for housing!
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