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Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?

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Post by react_burger38 »

nawwal wrote: post #657
_xnmw wrote: post #201

Moscow or Saint Petersburg. I'm ethnically Sri Lankan, born and educated in Toronto and I've spent quite a bit of time in the Bay Area, but I've become disillusioned with the West. It just amazes my friends that you can live a comfortable middle-class life in Russia on $800 per month. But aside from being cheap, I just feel like it's a place of great opportunity and future power. There's that immense energy of Russia…

Moscow is a great place to live/base, but $800/month for a comfortable middle-class life here is definitely an underestimate. I'm from the US - lived in NYC, Boston, and LA - and have been based in Moscow for the past year; it's hard to overstate what an amazing city this is, though it's important to note that there is a massive difference between Moscow (or St Petersburg) and the rest of Russia. I've traveled to man…

My wife and I want to visit Moscow sometime - but how do you get a visa to visit as a US citizen?

Also interestingly she is half-Mexican and I speak Spanish fluently so we have some things in common with you.

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Post by react_burger38 »

alistairSH wrote: post #234

My family is Scottish, though I've been in the US since I started primary school. Several of my dad's school friends split time between the UK and various European locations with better weather (south of Spain, etc). That sounds pretty much perfect to me. But, within the US? I'd be tempted to buy a plot of land in the Appalachians, maybe outside Roanoke VA, build a little chalet, and just chill out. Money no object,…

I'm in DC Metro as well... and being from Idaho and going to college in Utah... the Blue Ridge mountains don't seem very mountain-like to me. Around northern Utah, the mountains are RIGHT THERE. You can see the snow at the top for most of the year and the skiing is excellent.

DC just seems a little boring after you visit the museums a few times. No skiing, the beaches are too far, etc.

Any fun ideas? I guess maybe my life is different having a family of four, but DC just seems like it doesn't have much of a real culture to me.

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Post by crimsonalucard1 »

react_burger38 wrote: post #743
crimsonalucard1 wrote: post #131

What place has California weather, can get by with English and his cheaper than California?

Ensenada, Mexico! (Or just plain Tijuana)

I've been to Tijuana a lot for very very short trips. How safe is it to live there and what's it like?

Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?

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Post by SnoopDougieDoug »

I've been working remotely for years. I live in Port Ludlow, WA, which is on the Olympic Peninsula. It's motto is "A village in the woods by the bay". It's mostly retirees, but has miles of hiking trails, the climate is moderate, and the neighbors are nice. What it doesn't have is night life or shopping, but we are close enough if we want either.

And to make you SF folks jealous, I bought a 2200 SF house, on 1/2 acre, with a view of the bay, for less than $500K.

Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?

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Post by nawwal »

react_burger38 wrote: post #741
nawwal wrote: post #657

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Moscow is a great place to live/base, but $800/month for a comfortable middle-class life here is definitely an underestimate. I'm from the US - lived in NYC, Boston, and LA - and have been based in Moscow for the past year; it's hard to overstate what an amazing city this is, though it's important to note that there is a massive difference between Moscow (or St Petersburg) and the rest of Russia. I've traveled to man…

My wife and I want to visit Moscow sometime - but how do you get a visa to visit as a US citizen? Also interestingly she is half-Mexican and I speak Spanish fluently so we have some things in common with you.

You can get a 3 year multi-entry tourist visa to Russia which allows you to stay for up to 6 months, leave the country for a day, and then re-enter for another 6 months, etc, for the entirety of the 3 years (yes, legally). Funny enough, the US is the only country for which such a permissive visa is allowed, Russian tourist visas for other countries are usually restricted to a single-entry, one month maximum, not sure why we get such good treatment (just like the multi-entry 10 year tourist visa for China, which I think only US and Canadian citizens can get).

I don't think they're issuing visas rn due to the pandemic, but I imagine they will resume consular services this year, and then you can just apply through your local embassy/consulate, just look up the required documents and submit them, it's fairly straight-forward and does not require an interview, proof of income, etc.

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Post by eric_khun »

eric_khun wrote: post #399

Taipei, Taiwan The most underrated city/country in Asia : - Chill and relax - Awesome people, polite and clean - Best place in the world to work from cafes. Many cafes shops welcome people who works for long hours. They also care about cafe ;) I actually prefer to work from cafes than co-working here - Surrounded by nature, mountain, sea, river are within 45minutes reach. Hundred of trails around Taipei. - Metro / Bu…

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Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?

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Post by kirso »

dgudkov wrote: post #632

I'm a bit surprised very few people mention proximity to parents, family, and long time friends as a major reason of picking a place to live. The discussion is mostly around beaches, scenery, and climate. It seems that either social capital is not that important for most commenters, or many simply don't realize what they lose when they move to another country for beaches and scenery.

This deserves to be a top comment. Once you hustled your life away and have your life full of regrets that you haven't spent it with your loved ones - you realise that location is a pretty useless qualifying factor for life unless your family and closest ones are around.

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Post by Breza »

badestrand wrote: post #723
CPUstring wrote: post #664

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

The United States is the same way. I grew up in the Midwest and I've lived in Washington DC for the past 14 years. There's a huge difference in crime levels between the two.
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