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

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Post by juve1996 »

christophilus wrote: post #257

Every state I’ve lived in had great small towns. Most recently, I’ve been in NC and SC (finally settled in the latter). I say buy an old school road atlas, rent a car, and take a long road trip. The town that inspired Andy Griffith’s Mayberry is in the mountains of NC (or maybe it was VA). Stuff like that is all over the place here. As for me, I chose a small, walkable town that isn’t too far from Greenville, SC (whi…

Curious how your experience has been so far? Where did you come from and why did you decide on this town?

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Post by JKCalhoun »

NickSingh wrote: post #283

College towns I found have been great for this - things to do, access to airports and good schools, top-notch hospitals usually in the middle of "nowhere". Look into Charlottesville, Virginia - went to UVA and loved the town. Have also heard good things about Ithaca NY, Champaign IL, and Ann Arbor MI.

Lived in Ann Arbor for almost a year, can concur it was a nice town.

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Post by eatonphil »

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.

I'm from Lancaster and I don't really consider the city a college town.

State College PA is a college town.

Lancaster is just a nice small city with a few colleges in it.

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

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Post by pc86 »

braingenious wrote: post #140
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…

Do you share a username between HN and Twitter? Because somebody with your username on Twitter has been publicly talking about holding somebody at gunpoint in Pine Bluff, Arkansas earlier today(1), and has in the past advertised (2) a website with the tagline of “Matching vigilantes with victims for justice and profit “ (3) 1. https://twitter.com/pontifier/status/1559001472746098693?s=2... 2. https://twitter.com/oriw…

Genuinely curious why you're intentionally misframing things this way. Is it political? Or you just don't like this guy for some reason? He's been robbed (from what I can see a dozen or more times), and in one instance called the police and held the criminal there until they arrived a few minutes later. Everything completely legal, above board, etc.

This is a perfect example of someone telling the truth in such a way to completely mischaracterize what really happened.

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Post by FuriouslyAdrift »

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…

You should find out who is doing security for that brand new huge casino there and hire them...

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Post by petre »

cpach wrote: post #207
grapeskin wrote: post #179

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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.

I guess that's how they managed to screw up Creste Butte, CO. Pandemic + WFH, opportunities to move somewhere with nice scenery and not enough infrastructure to support a whole score of newcomers.

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Post by ramesh31 »

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.

>College towns. Pick some states, and go visit towns with colleges in them.

This is pretty much the only answer for the US. Small independent towns have ceased to exist because they have no reason to. But the legacy of land grant universities across the US has left plenty of towns like Gainesville, Ames, Athens, Boulder, Asheville, Chattanooga, Eugene, Laramie, College Station, etc. etc. that are fantastic places to live and have strong real estate markets.

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Post by throwaway787544 »

jjav wrote: post #139
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #133

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I'm curious, how do you people deal with medical emergencies? I live in a city and I have 3 24x7 hospitals within walking distance. I have gone dozens of times on foot at 3 in the morning to get medicine.

> I live in a city and I have 3 24x7 hospitals within walking distance. Where is that, just curious? I can't think of any place with three major hospitals within a mile or less?

Philly has 4+ hospitals in center city (Jefferson, Penn), 7+ in university city (Drexel, Penn, CHOP), and a smattering more all over. Baltimore had 3+ hospitals near downtown but I think most got absorbed into UMMS, so it's Hopkins and UMMS, but lots of different facilities around.

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Post by throwaway9980 »

octoberfranklin wrote: post #230
spoonjim wrote: post #194

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Have you been screened for assholery? I feel like making a mental health diagnosis on the basis of real estate investments is a mistake that one could make in those circumstances.

Watch a couple of the YouTube videos on the other side of some of the links posted above. The guy seems very intelligent and genuinely nice. It’s also clear that he needs to seek mental healthcare.
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