Nashville is the place I would plant myself. Lived there for a large chuck of my life and miss it dearly. Great city with plenty of great neighbourhoods, good schools, lots of Universities in the the area, and truly livable city.
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#422Surprised more people on here aren't saying nice, relaxed, sunny places like SE Asia. I'm a white american citizen and I've been living in SE Asia for 3 years having the time of my life while working remotely. I couldn't imagine living anywhere else. Looking back at the US, I don't miss the jerks everywhere, the value system of work, work, work and more money. Here in SE Asia, they value quality of life, being happy, family, and friends over money and "success" which is what Americans value.
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Tallinn seems like an awesome place to live in the summer. So does Helsinki. I visited in May and it was perfect. But I feel like I'd want to winter much closer to the Mediterranean, or somewhere in the Southern hemisphere.
I lived in Helsinki for a short period, and genuinely it's awesome. It was too expensive to live central in Helsinki so I lived in Vantaa. This was not a problem as the public transportation is not over-capacity and is very punctual. When I lived there though, there was only one underground "Metro" line- not sure if that changed. Getting to Vantaa requires an overground inter-city train. As for the experience: everyt…
I'm currently in Helsinki, and it is a really great place to live - speaking as somebody who moved from Edinburgh, Scotland.
The public-transport is first-class, with a single system for the local rail, trams, and busses. Even in winter they're almost always on-time, and in good-shape.
The place is clean, the people are generally helpful if you need assistance, although the stereotype of Finns being "closed" and noncommunicative is pretty true, in general.
The city feels well-run, and well-organized, and the child-care is first-rate. Where I live I'm two minutes from the sea by foot, and the back of our apartment block faces a large park which contains our allotment on the far-side.
Many of the apartment buildings have children's play-areas, sandboxes, swings, etc, in them, and I guess we're lucky that where we live there are about ten children ranging in age from 1 year to 7 years. So there are always neighbours to chat to, and company for the children.
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#424My village in Kerala, India. I got a house and I have a small patch of land which is very fertile and plenty of water (there are places with water scarcity). I get to watch the monsoon rains. The beach is like a couple of miles away. The mountains are also quite close and its very beautiful and its very much untouched nature. It's also very hot and humid but I am fine with that. Also, they get fiber so the internet i…
As a non-Indian I would say most places in India are way up there in the beauty stakes, be it the desert states, the southern tropics, the inland forests, the river deltas or the mountains .. but I think for lifestyle you really can't go past Kerala or Himachal Pradesh. They have it all.
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#425When satellite broadband internet becomes a real deal, I'm thinking about buying a sailboat (or catamaran) and travel around Europe: Scandinavia and Netherlands in summer, Spain, Italy and Canaries in winter.
My dad had a friend who did this in retirement and sailed the entire Caribbean, Mediterranean, and then was doing the Great Lakes last I heard. I'm right there with you on this though. I would love to sail the Pacific and see all the small islands between the US and Japan.
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#426I do work remote, and live in Southeast Asia. I earn USD and my family of three lives comfortably on less than $1000/mo.
Geoarbitrage is the easiest way to increase your wealth.
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When I got to visit SF, it was a lovely, magical city and it inspired me to buy $300 worth of books related to my interest in someday becoming a city planner (or something similar). The problem is I can't possibly afford to live there. If you can live there, cool. For many people, it's just too expensive to make it into a nice experience. All those restaurants nearby are only cool if you can afford the high cost of h…
I feel the biggest city planning lesson you can learn from SF is don't end up like SF where prop 13 keeps big parking lots in the middle of downtown unreasonably cheap, while NIMBYs are empowered to stall new apartments for years/decades.
This was a lot of years ago. Probably 19.5 years ago.
I left California more than 2.5 years ago. I don't plan to return to it.
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That sounds as if you visited SF for the first time...very good speech for tourism.I have been in Bay Area for 13 years, single, with GF, and now with kids. Good luck with the high real state prices and if you can afford it, is probably overvalued, homeless, drug addicts, lack of good public transportation and Infrastructure (no high speed trains). My take i would live in London.
London is dirtier and just as inflicted with "undesirables", unless you're willing to continue paying SF rent prices, or live in zone 3 or beyond.
I don't find London to be dirtier than SF. Also I get the sense that it's a much bigger city in general, and of course your Stratfords will differ significantly from your Westminsters, although this can be said about basically every city.
Also I think London is slightly cheaper. Still, working remotely from London proper is probably a terrible idea given the extent of public transportation. Just live in Croydon and catch overground to London when necessary IMO.
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#429I just moved to a small town in Michigan from San Jose this week. I love the lack of traffic, my giant backyard and deck, how completely quiet and pitch black it is at night and that I have yet to meet a software developer. Nothing against devs, but getting out of the tech bubble is nice. I can go to Detroit, Chicago, the Great Lakes and many other places if I need a change of pace. Of course it’s only been a few day…
I grew up in Chicago and love it. A lot of people hate the winters but I welcome it--Ice hockey, cross country skiing, sledding.
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#430Japan,
But the work culture there and lower pay can't help me justify it. Right now its better for me to just take 2-3 month long vacations at a time there instead. Would have to start my own company there or get hired by a western firm and get sent there.