Easy: Los Angeles, where I already live. Most multi-cultural place in the country, best weather (fantastic for mental health), and since I'm remote: zero of the traffic that most people associate with LA.
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#32I've often joked that there are only three choices of where to live: near your family, near your partner's family, or New York. In our case, we were able to use the fact that I went remote to live closer to my partner's family in New England. For many of us in relationships, being remote doesn't offer the flexibility to live anywhere in the world, but it means we're tied to a particular region by only one job instead of two.
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#33I wonder why so many people wishing to live in rural locations pick places with brutally cold winters, rather than the tropics. If you want to live off the land you'll have a much harder time of it in cold places.
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#35I've worked remotely since 1996, living in rural Indiana, Budapest, and Puerto Rico. Now I live on a farm in the mountains of Puerto Rico and all my questionable life decisions have culminated in a very, very tolerable quarantine.
So, answer: slow nomad. It's been a good life, although I've found it difficult to prosper to the extent more connected people can. (But I believe this is more me, than being remote.)
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#36For me, it's Montevideo, Uruguay. Now that Brexit has upended where I would live in Europe, this is the next best plan for us.
I live in Montevideo, Uruguay and i’m really interested on why would you like to live here? I was born here and think it’s a nice little place but would like to have the perspective from someone from the “outside”.
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#37Austin TX.
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#38On a small sailboat outfitted with batteries and solar panels. Ideally I'd dock only once every few days to take meetings/sync my data/connect to the internet, and then head back to open waters.
This is my fantasy as well. We are so close to reliable cheap satellite internet, the only thing you'd need to come to shore for is groceries/ water/ fuel.
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#39Before the pandemic hit, my wife and I were planning a 3-6 month period of traveling, mostly in Southeast Asia (China, Thailand, Indonesia). I don't know if we'd live there long-term, but we've enjoyed our shorter, 3-4 week trips in the past. Both our jobs were fairly flexible even before this, so we're looking forward to being able to travel more again.
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#40I can't, and even if I could, everything else I do is in the city. As much fun as it would be to live out in the boonies, it'd mean having to spend hours commuting every day. There's things I hate about living here but it's just not practical to live anywhere else right now.