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

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Post by mikestew »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #133
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…

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 have gone dozens of times on foot at 3 in the morning to get medicine.

For starters, the number of times that myself or either of my former or current spouses has felt the need to seek out a vendor of medications at 0300 has been...zero. That said, and I don't mean to be trite, you deal with it by living like you live 2 hours from an ER. Know your first aid, make doubly sure to keep those fingers away from that table saw (and even that won't likely kill you before you get to the ER). That, and just don't obsess over it. People have lived far away from emergency medical care for many years. Sometimes they die as a result. Sometimes people die driving to the ER that's right down the street. But me and my house, just because a hospital could be close to home doesn't mean it has to be.

(Says the guy smack in the middle of Redmond, WA within a long walk to the ER...or a five minute drive. That hasn't always been the case, however.)

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

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Post by [deleted] »

braingenious wrote: post #460
anm89 wrote: post #458

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You seem far more obnoxious than the person you seem to be publicly drumming up hate for :)

Did you feel hatred for him after reading my post? That was not my intention. As I’ve stated, I was looking for clarity about posts with pretty different tones. I invite you to not read questions directed at people other than you if you find them to be obnoxious.

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

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Post by anm89 »

braingenious wrote: post #460
anm89 wrote: post #458

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You seem far more obnoxious than the person you seem to be publicly drumming up hate for :)

Did you feel hatred for him after reading my post? That was not my intention. As I’ve stated, I was looking for clarity about posts with pretty different tones. I invite you to not read questions directed at people other than you if you find them to be obnoxious.

> Did you feel hatred for him after reading my post?

No, why would I?

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

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Post by throwaway787544 »

sfvegandude wrote: post #360
throwaway787544 wrote: post #320

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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.

“The rest of the country ignored it” Is this how local residents feel? I find this sentiment rather confusing. Rural places tend to be distrustful of central government. Meaning, they are happy to be ignored by “the rest of the country” since those outsiders don’t share their values.

Local residents do feel that way. They have no money, no education, no job prospects, and don't feel they get respect. The fact that their cultural values are also at odds with the "haves" (in their view) further cements the view. But in a very real policy and economic sense, they literally were abandoned when industry left. Wall Street and Tech zoomed on while their factories and mines closed with no recourse to be able to recover from the economic vacuum.

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

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Post by braingenious »

anm89 wrote: post #483
braingenious wrote: post #460

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you feel hatred for him after reading my post? That was not my intention. As I’ve stated, I was looking for clarity about posts with pretty different tones. I invite you to not read questions directed at people other than you if you find them to be obnoxious.

> Did you feel hatred for him after reading my post? No, why would I?

I don’t know either, that’s why I asked. If I were drumming up hate maybe you would’ve experienced it.

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

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Post by throwaway787544 »

uberman wrote: post #335
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.

Central.

There are 10 regions of NY State. According to NYCers, literally the entire state outside of the Hudson Valley is "upstate" - you could live an hour from Cleveland,OH or an hour from Montreal,BC , and both are "upstate". So it helps to be more specific when suggesting a place in NY.

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

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Post by LudwigNagasena »

UncleMeat wrote: post #409
pc86 wrote: post #404

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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.

> Paying people to track down specific criminals is very different than protecting ones property in the moment.

What is the alternative? Paying people to track down criminals is how law enforcement works almost everywhere.

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

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Post by braingenious »

honkdaddy wrote: post #467
braingenious wrote: post #442

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I asked if the OP was the same person that was posting on Twitter, as what was posted there was a different tone from what was posted on HN. He answered in the affirmative. I did not spend much time “digging into his background”, I clicked a link and read a few posts. Why do you care? Be as direct as possible, please :)

I’ll bite - I only care because I think it’s important for others to see what your intentions are here. Now that I’ve answered your question, can you answer mine? :) If I wanted to, I’m sure I could Google some of your online identities and find a post your made in the past and then asked in a public forum if you’re the same person. I wouldn’t do that because I think it’s a bit creepy and impolite, but if I had a ver…

I actually misunderstood the wording, I’m now aware that he only bought 17 acres + 75 more properties in the area.

As for the weird threat of embarrassment… what? I literally just asked if he used the same username on both websites.

As for why I asked, I’ll answer again: his post on HN had a different tone from his posts on the bird site, and I wanted to know if they gave context to his post or were unrelated. For example, I do not own “braingenious” on twitter, and I wouldn’t want someone to mix me up with whoever that is.

I initially found this thread because someone mentioned it on Twitter. Spoiler: I did not go out of my way to gain any information.

As for how this relates to politics, I’ll refer to his own recent post about local politics affecting his project.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32474436

This has been a courtesy post because you have not answered “Why do you care?” and have failed to be direct. I will not engage with you any further.

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

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Post by pontifier »

ryanmercer wrote: post #478
KennyBlanken wrote: post #463

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The "benforbars" site has all the hallmarks of a free-energy nutjob complete with comic sans font and MSpaint images. Between that and the tweet whining about how hard email is to set up (!) this dude isn't qualified to run a Subway franchise, certainly not multiple internet companies.

I went through 6 months of his tweets and, yeah, he either doesn't have a grip on reality, has some sort of mental health issue, or is just constantly trying to run some angle. - Yup, the free energy fonts and conspiratorial claims about video of his fusion reactor being suppressed - It looks like he bought a bunch of people's property for pennies on the dollar, then raised funds from those same people to return thei…

It's very interesting to see how the things I've put out there are interpreted.

It feels like looking at myself in a fun-house mirror. There are probably huge pieces of these events that I'm not communicating well, or at all.

Thank you for your comment. I'll try to be better at communicating the meanings I intend.

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