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There are places in Australia that might have weather similar to California. USD would go further here also.
What places?
Most of the country really - Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Goldcoast, Sunshine Coast, Cairns
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Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
#672Philadelphia It's one of the five biggest cities in the US but most people routinely look past it. First of all it's fairly cheap, less than half as expensive as SF even in the nicest parts. It's got the best restaurant scene of any city I've spent time in (and almost all are free BYO). It's got a great art scene including a ton of amazing live music. 4 sports teams with passionate fan bases. It's racially diverse (n…
Agree with everything you said, but the weather makes it an instant disqualifier for me.
I work remotely just outside Philadelphia and enjoy the change of seasons.
Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
#673Philadelphia It's one of the five biggest cities in the US but most people routinely look past it. First of all it's fairly cheap, less than half as expensive as SF even in the nicest parts. It's got the best restaurant scene of any city I've spent time in (and almost all are free BYO). It's got a great art scene including a ton of amazing live music. 4 sports teams with passionate fan bases. It's racially diverse (n…
I do work remotely, and bounce between Philadelphia and Las Vegas, depending on my mood and the weather. Philly food, drink, art, and music scenes are all fantastic. Additionally, it’s a very “human scale” city. Large enough to support all of the above, but small enough that you can grasp the whole thing in your mind, and travel around it easily.
> small enough that you can grasp the whole thing in your mind
That's exactly how I feel about philly. Especially after spending several years in LA.
Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
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Although I'm from Spain I totally look like a gringo I can't help but wonder if a Spanish accent buys you some cred in Latin America that other gringos don't get.
I think the general negative stereotype about Spaniards in Mexico is that they're brash and stupid. Mexico's negative Polish jokes demeaning a culture's intelligence would be comparable to Galician jokes, dating from a time when there used to be more Galician immigration into Mexico. Iberian accents don't sound cultured and distinguished to most Mexicans; also, Spaniards more casually use words that sound rude to Mex…
> Spaniards more casually use words that sound rude to Mexicans
Yes, this is totally true.
Also Mexicans generally try to speak properly unless they are with friends or family. They typically shush bad words, use more polite substitutes, or they start a sentence with "excuse me but...".
In Spain nobody cares.
> pier25's experience may have been entirely positive
Yeah, totally. I've lived in different countries so I adapt very quickly to different customs and forms.
> As soon as pier25 speaks, no Mexican would call him gringo.
You'd be surprised. Most people in Mexico associate Spanish accent with Madrid accent (eg: hola como eshtash) and since I don't have that accent they think I'm a gringo with a weird Spanish accent. Dozens of times Mexicans have insisted speaking to me in English even when I was speaking in Spanish to them. Once I even had to insist that I was from Spain and the answer was "¿Pero español de España?" :)
With my wife we've joked about making a t-shirt for me that says "Que no soy gringo joder!".
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Taipei. Expat community here is pretty good and the locals are great.
I'll be based in Taipei for the next few months as a refugee of SG's repressive lockdown. A frequent visitor on quick trips, will be an interesting experience to get a bit more of the local expat experience.
hit me up!
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I'm from New Zealand and lived there for 4 years. Same experience. Never saw anything crazy, didn't even know anyone who had. I used to fly up to LA and SF often, and saw crazy shit up there often. Mexico is safer than the US - some will find that unpaletable. Get over it.
> Mexico is safer than the US - some will find that unpaletable. Get over it. This is quite verifiably false? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_homicid... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mexican_states_by_homi... edit: fixed link
Your first URL is wrong, and btw you are comparing two different metrics. The Mexico link shows number of murders and the US one murder rate.
Also, even comparing apples to apples those stats don't paint the day to day reality of living in Mexico. Very often murders are from fights between narco gangs, or between narcos and the police/military.
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It's also true that crime and narco presence is not equally distributed.
See Queretaro vs Boston:
Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
#679Kinda living it already; Taiwan. Love it here. Close to Japan and Korea, and my remote company is in Japan. I would like to try living in Europe someday ( Switzerland would be awesome ) but I don't make enough money to do that yet. And there are visa issues too. If I were forced to live back in the states, probably Boulder, Co. Maybe Brunswick Maine. Honestly though, health care keeps me from moving back to the State…
I would love to work remotely from either Japan or Taiwan (preferably in Japan). I’m currently living in HK, but I reckon it’s time to move on. How did you manage to find a remote company in Japan?
It literally came down to knowing someone who knew someone, and getting lucky enough to interview and them saying yes.
Without connections you're gonna have a tough time.
Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
#680I'd be more interested in working fewer hours, or fewer days, or having more vacation time.
Although I wish I could change cities more, living 2-5 years in each place. But that's not how life works.