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

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Post by OJFord »

refurb wrote: post #260
OJFord wrote: post #162

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It's a bit of a fool's errand to follow that advice though, you could have been doing renting in urban Canada for years (decades even?) being told a crash is coming any day now eh has too. And now it's extremely unlikely that one would wipe out the compounded growth from if you'd bought when you first thought of it. I think if it's to live in, just do it. Save market-timing for a second home/investment/flip - and eve…

That’s a funny statement considering parts of Toronto are down 30% in the past 4 months and the Bank of Canada hasn’t finish hiking rates.

I'm not Canadian or particularly familiar, but that's 30% down having done something like 300% since 2009 right? So if you've been renting for the last 13 years waiting this to pounce, you're hardly going to be patting yourself on the back thinking it was such a smart move.

Unless you mean having bought there 4m ago would suck? Well, sure, but this 'advice' is only for a home, where you live, not an investment property. And as for looking right now vs. waiting short-term for prices to drop (and paying rent meanwhile) - that's surely priced in. Suppose it could still make sense to someone personally if it put them in a better mortgage position (at the risk of a worse rate).

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

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

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?

oh, i didn't mention this isn't america, but instead a third world backwater country

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

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Post by [deleted] »

pontifier wrote: post #193
braingenious wrote: post #140

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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…

Yeah, that's me.

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

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Post by eatonphil »

snarf21 wrote: post #325
eatonphil wrote: post #293

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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.

I agree it isn't a true "college town" but I think with the gentrification and the art college it feels more like a college town than say Carlisle that also has one main college. I think it also has a lot of the cultural diversity that you'd expect from a bigger college town. But in either case, it is great!

Yeah specifically what I mean is that the median age in Lancaster is 33 and the median age in State College is 21.

So even if there are schools there the feel is more young adult than college student.

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

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Post by uberman »

throwaway787544 wrote: post #119

I live in the outskirts of a poor rural town in NY. We have 2 bars, some restaurants, a coffee shop, a fast food chain, some dollar stores, a grocery store, hardware store, antiques, gas stations, etc, Library and a little theater, farmers market on weekends. River runs nearby with a put-in for kayaks and fishing. Biggest town/city nearby with big box stores is about 45 minutes. They have fiber internet here but it's…

Are you in "upstate ny" by chance? I was going to suggest that area but read your post potentially covering that suggestion.

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

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Post by davewritescode »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Boston's Longwood Medical area is a great example of a place you can stand and be within a mile of 4 hospitals. Brigham and Women's, Boston Children's, Beth Israel and New England Baptist.

3 of the 4 are Harvard Medical School affiliated and our outstanding hospitals.

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

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Post by codegeek »

duped wrote: post #3

Try the Midwest around rail commuter routes. Most of them developed small yet thriving downtowns that are quite quaint and affordable For example check out Geneva Illinois

Also check out Galesburg, Illinois. College town (knox.edu) and you can walk to most things on Main St. It is however a lot of Corn fields other than the college area but the last I was there was in 2002 so things may have changed a bit. Winters were brutal but lot of friendly people and back then as an immigrant, I always felt welcomed.

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

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Post by pc86 »

Eupraxias wrote: post #282
notatoad wrote: post #108

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Give them money. Directly or not. If you're a rich person moving into a poor town, the only way to not piss off the locals is to make them richer. If you can make the whole town richer, you'll be welcomed. Whatever portion of the locals that you don't make richer will hate you. If you don't want to piss off the locals, and you don't want to employ the locals, this is a very expensive plan.

Why do you think they won't take your money and still hate you out of town? That's what I have seen.

Where have you seen that?

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

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Post by fencepost »

ajross wrote: post #69
mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #42

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I suppose I should have clarified to include property taxes. If someone is looking for an area to move to and possibly settle, when you pay off a house you may not want $800-1000/mo in taxes on that house. I said “like” I didn’t do an analysis of 50 states and tax rates. I think it would be common sense if someone was looking to move anywhere in the US to consider taxes and avoid places that were high. Similarly cons…

This still sems mixed up. In fact Texas has among the highest property tax rates in the country, above both NY (which it beats by a little bit) and CA (which is way down in the middle of the pack). You can find data on states by total tax burden (which, sure, is going to depend on your particular assets and flows being taxed). It's not nearly as big a differentiator as you seem to think it is (especially, again, sinc…

CA (which is way down in the middle of the pack).

Is CA distorted by its funky property tax cap system? If so its position in that list may not matter for anyone looking at a new purchase.

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Post by 12many »

rlawson wrote: post #288

Let me give you the scoop on the Carolina's. I'm a developer living in the upstate of SC. I am an agnostic liberal which makes me a rarity but I was born here so I can go under the radar thanks to my deep melodious southern accent. Pros - Great climate 10 out of 12 months - Friendly people - Lots of outdoor activities - Beautiful beaches (Fripp Island and Kiawah especially) - Low cost housing (altho going up rapidly)…

"friendly people" but also "hateful racist trumpers"? Well which is it?
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