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Post by sytringy05 »

ozi wrote: post #214
Jedd wrote: post #147

New Zealand or Tasmania (AU). Assumptions: Timezone matching isn't a constraint. Political administrations within a nation oscillate, but in general little substantive changes as people pick between two similar options. Proximity to other specific humans isn't a constraint (this seems to be a common requirement expressed in this thread). Alternatively - assume international travel is restored to normalcy. Rationale:…

I've heard Tasmania is pretty bogan, but have never been. How does it compare to Melbourne? That'd probably be my ideal wfh location.

Hobart is great. I live in Melbourne but have family in Hobart so we are down there quite a bit.

There is a really good food and arts culture, they get test matches and 6 or so AFL games a year, good coffee in the city and an amazing array of outdoor activities a 45 min drive from Constitution Dock.

Real estate isn't as cheap as it used to be and some things can be hard to get (eg Ikea style furniture, whenever my relatives get the boat to Australia, they nearly always go to Ikea and fill the car up with flat pack things)

Great place!

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Post by alibaba_x »

quietthrow wrote: post #545

Singapore. Quality of life is far superior than the western world. They have a “Mac” govt - it just works :) the govt actually has a Legal helper program in place you where you can get live in help at a very reasonable cost (which before you get judgmental helps uplift a lot of people out of poverty from neighboring countries). Imagine US having that for their tired masses who barely have any time between both parent…

Somebody described Singapore as "Disneyland with the Death Penalty". It's good for those with a deep love for the rule of law.

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Post by badestrand »

CPUstring wrote: post #664
hthtegr wrote: post #564

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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

I think crime and especially violence in Mexico are much more unevenly distributed. That is, half the country is really safe and half is quite dangerous.

I stayed in various of the "safe parts" of Mexico for three months and felt much safer than in any of various cities in the US, both experienced as a European traveller.

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Post by rarecoil »

akhilcacharya wrote: post #644
rarecoil wrote: post #254

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> I have made many interesting and creative friends here who are from all over the world. I get to work on mobile games, but there are many other opportunities around. Among my coworkers are digital artists and painters, musicians, engineers, hip hop dancers, drag show performers, people who party all night in the Castro, a muay Thai boxer, mixologists, and more interests than I can list. Being mostly in Seattle for…

> . At least there were easy outs in going to galleries or clubs or art/makerspaces or various meets for non-tech things in SF I hear the same thing about New York and to that I wonder: 1) Do people actually like these things 2) or are they a just a way to virtue signal their cosmopolitan bona fides to the other graduates of selective universities? Perhaps I'm just an unsophisticated public school grad, but I've neve…

I'm sure I'm less sophisticated than you are. I wouldn't consider the university I went to selective by any means. But I have had a lot of friends that are musicians, and with that came a lot of hanging out with them at random venues, and from there going out to hear live electronic music became a dominant theme of most of my life in SF. Whenever I find myself back in San Francisco who's playing there while I'm around is one of the first things I look at.

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Post by Markoff »

antigirl wrote: post #684
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yes, crop burning is seasonal issue in some locations of Thailand, Malaysia (from ID) and Indonesia, not all year round issue

Go look at the AQI for last 12 months. I live here. I know.

I looked at AQI right now and forecast for next few days and don't find there anything extreme, just a little bit dirtier air during rush hours caused by crappy cars and motorbikes without filters, but nothing extreme anyway, slightly above what is considered completely healthy.

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Post by shuckles »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #703
shuckles wrote: post #694

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Counterpoint: SROs are the most common location of overdoses in the city of San Francisco. Mentally ill people in housing probably don’t bother you, but that doesn’t mean they are safe and healthy.

When you find the planet that has solved all personal problems, let me know. In the meantime, I will keep harping on best practices for this planet as I best understand them.

Residential housing costs $750k to build per unit in California, and most of those costs are unique to the process of developing infill in NIMBY cities with high costs of labor. We are two orders of magnitudes away from enough funding to solve homelessness with residential housing in San Francisco for the existing population, notwithstanding induced demand. Treatment outside of city centers for people dealing with mental health and substance abuse issues could be built far more affordably elsewhere by saving on the land and labor costs. They’d also be cheaper to operate.

More generally, your comments come across and smug and sanctimonious — everyone has an interest in solving the problem, and falling back to “homelessness is a housing problem” amounts to tautology which is not particularly insightful.

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Post by ShorsHammer »

Mengkudulangsat wrote: post #521
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As a citizen you might not see it but Malaysia is tough for foreign developers and foreigners in general. I mean it's tough even for decent local developers, all the good ones get out asap. The only acceptable foreigner workers for most of the population are the ones who will do menial jobs, everyone else isn't wanted there. In SG no one cares about you being a foreigner. Theres few options available to someone tryin…

I feel you. Our homegrown tech scene is nothing to shout about. That's why realistically I positing a case for remote workers of foreign firms instead. Who knows, maybe the "right stuff" will spillover locally after a decade. The bumiputera nonsense is outside our control, however unless you have to frequently deal with the government, most people won't even notice.

There's so much potential there, Malaysia has a lot going for it from a startup perspective it's just getting the talent, not just in tech either. Energy, rent, taxes are all incredibly low. I guess the same applies to startups but it all comes at a cost.

Homegrown success stories like grab eventually move to Singapore because it's just easier in a lot of ways.

I find it sad, been in and out of the country for nearly a decade and there's some real opportunities to lure in foreign remote workers or startups but there's little political will to do so. The concept that a foreigner could work for a US company from KL will just upset locals who would demand they do the work instead.

Know plenty of expats and nomad types from over the years and even basic things like accommodation is a nightmare. Monthly rentals are rare to come by apart from airbnb and that is banned in many apartments. Everywhere else in SEA you can walk up to an apartment and have a monthly lease signed in under an hour.

When I first moved in for the first week every security guard in the complex demanded to see my lease and accused me of using airbnb, was quite a shock.

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Post by willemh »

stephenr wrote: post #574
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Torquay/Ocean Grove may be more your style. The weather isn't as consistent as QLD but beats Warrnambool by being a couple of degrees warmer. It's near Geelong but you still get the ocean. And it's only about 1.5hrs to Melbourne if you avoid peak hour. I get your point about Queensland. Maroochydore might be slowly modernising. They're building a new city centre from scratch on what used to be the golf course. They'v…

How exactly does the submarine cable connection affect things realistically? I’d have thought the point of contention for most people in Australia would be either the last mile with the boondoggle that is FttN or the distance to other countries. Does skipping a bit of terrestrial fibre backbone really make that much difference?

Yeah, not much difference to the end user but I think the council are trying to attract businesses. That could be the good mix up the economy needs. The future will tell whether it works or not.

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Post by ttttodayjunior »

crimsonalucard1 wrote: post #690
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Most of the country really - Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Goldcoast, Sunshine Coast, Cairns

Really? I heard that the sun really burns in the summer... so much so, that even people of African descent get sun burns. Are these places exceptions?

These are coastal cities, which are cooler than interior. Most of the population lives on the coast.
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