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

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Post by UncleMeat »

LudwigNagasena wrote: post #487
UncleMeat wrote: post #409

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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.

There is a major difference between a state organization with shared ownership and management through democratic processes and private business. The police have enough problems as an institution. Private vigilantes are going to be worse.

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

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Post by selimthegrim »

throwaway787544 wrote: post #484
sfvegandude wrote: post #360

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“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…

Is there not a college there, UAPB? How is it helping them?

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

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Post by selimthegrim »

selimthegrim wrote: post #102
ltbarcly3 wrote: post #54

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I think most places aren't one of the highest crime cities in the country? I don't think the mistake you made was moving from cities, it was moving to one of the worst towns in the country. Pine Bluff is the #4 highest crime area in the entire country !! https://247wallst.com/city/pine-bluff-ar-is-among-the-most-d...

Nicknames I heard were “Pine Box” or “Crime Bluff” (from a native who proceeded to stiff me of $150 so I should have known better than dealing with him to begin with)

Definitely an AR native but he might have been from the Ozarks rather than PB now that I think of it.

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

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Post by LudwigNagasena »

UncleMeat wrote: post #501
LudwigNagasena wrote: post #487

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> 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.

There is a major difference between a state organization with shared ownership and management through democratic processes and private business. The police have enough problems as an institution. Private vigilantes are going to be worse.

There is a major difference between an organization with shared ownership and management through democratic processes and an institution several decision-makers removed from that. It is not clear that private investigators without privileges of monopoly on violence should be worse.

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

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Post by inferiorhuman »

blululu wrote: post #326
throwaway2037 wrote: post #182

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This is amazing analysis. Hat tip! Did you just happen to know all of these hospitals... then you used Google Maps to show distance? You are like the Ken Jennings of hospitals!

He probably knew that there around a bunch of hospitals around the geographic center of SF (if you live in that part of town it’s hard to miss), and then did a Google search for the numbers. I used to work at UCSF and this matches my sense that there are a lot of medical facilities in town.

Yeah I know where the hospitals are in San Francisco because I lived there. Centrally located isn't as great as it may seem. For the others I just plugged "emergency room" into Apple maps and picked some points that seemed close enough together.

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Post by myhumbleopinion »

pontifier wrote: post #489
ryanmercer wrote: post #478

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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.

You still don’t see it?! Stop with the defensive attitude and just listen. There is value in listening to what is going on around you. Put your ego aside and realize that at least some of what is occurring is not just someone else’s fault.

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Post by cbanek »

bkberry352 wrote: post #412
noodlesUK wrote: post #221

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Like Eugene, Corvallis is very nice. There’s decent food, and houses are a lot cheaper than Portland. It’s a lot closer to Portland on days you want to drive up, which is a plus.

Agree, Corvallis rocks. Beautiful weather, decent food, close to cities, mountains, the coast. Not sure where the down votes are coming from, maybe to stop you from letting the secret out?

Yeah I agree. I honestly love central Oregon. Grants Pass in particular is wonderful. And then down in that Medford Ashland Rogue River Valley area too. US 199 from Grant's Pass to Crescent City CA is possibly the most gorgeous drive in the US IMHO. And Crescent City CA has the redwoods all over, and you can continue to Eureka, which is also nice, and fairly cheap compared to the rest of california. It smells like green and wet there, but not in a bad way. Very little snow. Central oregon literally looks like the shire with the rolling hills and mountains. I'd buy there.

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Post by selimthegrim »

windows2020 wrote: post #391
duped wrote: post #99

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They lost 100% of their power network to Maria. Hurricanes are becoming more common and higher intensity. Humanity's days in the Caribbean are numbered.

That's what they said about Miami until we built appropriate structures and infrastructure.

How’s the drinking water holding up?

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Post by strken »

wrp wrote: post #180
strken wrote: post #141

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As someone who grew up in a very small town with exactly one pub and no other shops, this is a bit melodramatic. You can just walk in, order a meal and a beer, talk to the publican, and work out for yourself whether you like the place. There's something to like about most pubs. The shops being further away also isn't a big deal. You'd think it would be annoying, but your habits quickly adapt. After running out of mil…

I think your experience in the UK(?) may not be very indicative of what to expect. I gather that pubs in small town Britain fill a broader social role than bars in small town America.

Australia, and a town of 200-something people.

I'm not sure what social role bars play in a small US town. When I was over there I went into a few in some smallish west coast towns, but tourists don't get a full understanding of a culture, and the areas I was in are so densely populated that they'd probably be very different from e.g. Idaho or Texas.

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

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Post by selimthegrim »

mikestew wrote: post #481
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 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 tab…

He is in Srinagar, Kashmir. Probably the vendors live above their shops and will open up in an emergency.
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