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

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Post by ryanmercer »

pc86 wrote: post #302
ryanmercer wrote: post #229

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>Curious why the city is so reluctant to support new businesses. I'm guessing the town wants him to do very basic stuff to get the property up to code, and he doesn't want to. Anther person pointed out in a comment that comment chain OPs twitter had posts about about holding somebody at gunpoint in apparent frustration. To me it sounds like OP knew absolutely nothing about commercial real-estate, absolutely nothing a…

It took me about 4 minutes to find out that he was robbed for the ~15th time, called the police, and held the criminal at gunpoint for less than ten minutes until the police arrived. Quite a bit different than "holding somebody at gunpoint in apparent frustration," and with how quickly I found out what actually happened I can only assume you're intentionally misrepresenting the facts.

>It took me about 4 minutes to find out that he was robbed for the ~15th time,

You do realize between his comments here, and a cursory look at his Twitter, he's told about 57 tall tales too many, right? If it was such a bad experience, why did he go on to buy an alleged SEVENTY-FIVE more properties there for starters?

Because the bulk, if not all, of this is probably entirely made up.

I mean, the guy claims he's developed a fusion reactor, all by himself apparently, for crying out loud. https://twitter.com/pontifier/status/1488959967235219458

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

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Post by ryanmercer »

aaaaaaaaata wrote: post #226
closeparen wrote: post #82

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I would expect big money coming into a small town to face serious static from local authorities unless and until you're cozied up to its political scene.

Nobody saying or reading this sees this as a problem?

This individual claims to have swooped into town and bought SEVENTY-SIX properties with no documented experience doing this sort of thing.

I see nothing wrong with the fact that he's having trouble doing what he wants, he probably isn't coming close to remotely following proper procedure and clearly lacks experience, as he stated that he could barely even afford the first property - a 220k square foot warehouse he bought with apparently no business and no experience owning warehouses.

Given it's a town of 40k people, I doubt there's rampant corruption and more OP just doesn't have any idea how anything works at all. If any of his statements are true, this guy needs to stop what he's doing and learn how to adult.

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

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Post by pc86 »

UncleMeat wrote: post #374
pc86 wrote: post #318

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If they are, then they should be illegal. If they are illegal, and this qualifies, then this guy should be punished. None of this negates anything I said previously.

Our society is not perfect. A large number of antisocial things are legal. It is completely reasonable to criticize somebody for doing a thing that is both legal and also antisocial. I feel for this guy. He is getting screwed by a high-violence region. But his approach to solving this problem makes the world worse, not better.

I think it's important to keep the specifics in mind as these things live and die on the specific details.

A criminal came to his private property and attempted to steal. He was able to keep the person there - for less than ten minutes - until that person was arrested. Presumably that person is in jail now or at least on probation.

Please explain how just letting this person steal leaves the world better than having him get punished for his actions. When victims of crime shrug their shoulders and just say "aw shucks" it incentivizes more crime, which makes the world objectively worse.

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

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Post by ryanmercer »

sacrosancty wrote: post #170
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…

You make him sound like some sort of violent vigilante kidnapper. Held an intruder at gunpoint after calling police.

He made this site... he's offering people $100 per month per person they get sent to jail as long as they remain in jail http://bensforbars.com/

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

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Post by giantg2 »

If you live near Lancaster, you could start driving a horse and buggy.

I think you'd have to elaborate on what you think a good school is and what a good climate is. It certainly gets cold for part of the year in PA and MD. It can be quite humid in the summers too. I've heard it can be tough to find a "good" public school in parts of SC (I looked at some SC and NC schools when I entertained the idea of moving there a decade ago. The scores were considerably lower than most MD and most PA were).

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

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Post by UncleMeat »

hunterb123 wrote: post #382
UncleMeat wrote: post #370

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It is also true that people who rob businesses are harmful to society. That is completely independent of the terrible outcomes caused by private vigilanteism.

vigilanteism implies he hunted him down. the trespasser came to his property. the guy confronted him and held him there until the authorities arrived. are you implying people should not protect their livelihood and let trespassers loot even if they could stop them? why should those property owners who are fully in the right morally and legally do that when the trespassers are flagrantly breaking the law?

I'm not talking about him protecting his property. I'm talking about the bensforbars thing.

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

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Post by jbirer »

throwaway787544 wrote: post #320
Gigachad wrote: post #112

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Just skimming the Wikipedia page for that place shows red flags all over the place. The population has been sharply declining since 1970 and the homicide rate is 56 per 100,000 vs the national average of 6.5. Clearly something is very wrong with the local government and population.

It's called poverty. Welcome to rural America. Went down the shitter when industry left and the rest of the country ignored it for decades, so now we have MAGA, drugs and crime, and a whole lotta cheap land.

Plenty of poor towns without such homicide rates and robbery. You are taking the agency out of the hands of the people committing the crimes and handing it to the circumstances.

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

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Post by UncleMeat »

pc86 wrote: post #404
UncleMeat wrote: post #374

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Our society is not perfect. A large number of antisocial things are legal. It is completely reasonable to criticize somebody for doing a thing that is both legal and also antisocial. I feel for this guy. He is getting screwed by a high-violence region. But his approach to solving this problem makes the world worse, not better.

I think it's important to keep the specifics in mind as these things live and die on the specific details. A criminal came to his private property and attempted to steal. He was able to keep the person there - for less than ten minutes - until that person was arrested. Presumably that person is in jail now or at least on probation. Please explain how just letting this person steal leaves the world better than having…

I'm not talking about him protecting his property. I'm talking about the bensforbars thing. Paying people to track down specific criminals is very different than protecting ones property in the moment.

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

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Post by rlawson »

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…

Where did you end up? Simpsonville, Travelers rest?
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