Ask HN: What are some cheap idyllic places with lots of nature? • Hacker News Board

_lbaq wrote: post #47

dennybritz wrote: post #30

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This looks beautiful. What are the living costs like there?

Living in the area is very cheap compared to continental Europe and the US. You can get very nice sea side house for 200-300k Euros, if you chose not to live by the sea, prices drops of a cliff, you can get a house for 10k Euros, a nice 200 square meter house

you mean 100k ofcourse :)

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 11:48 AM UTC

leakybucket wrote: post #17

Perhaps Ithaca, New York? It's a smallish college town (Cornell, Ithaca College), but with lots of great scenery nearby, including forest, lakes, and gorges.

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Post by PopeOfNope » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 11:51 AM UTC

There's Lake Placid or the 1000 islands. Once upon a time (1870's to WWI-ish), presidents and influential people used to come to the 1000 islands for the summer. If you like fall leaves, October here is like no other. Do not stay past halloween; it gets cold fast. You don't want to be here in the winter, unless you like snowmobiling. There's better skiing in places with less extreme weather (or so I'm told).

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Post by towb » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 1:43 PM UTC

markyc wrote: post #55

_lbaq wrote: post #47

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Living in the area is very cheap compared to continental Europe and the US. You can get very nice sea side house for 200-300k Euros, if you chose not to live by the sea, prices drops of a cliff, you can get a house for 10k Euros, a nice 200 square meter house

you mean 100k ofcourse :)

Maybe not. The gov. seems to handle the countryside extremly bad here in [name-redacted]. Depopulation might lead to those prices, cheaper than the building materials in some areas. People are forced, in a way, to leave for the cities.

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Post by _lbaq » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 2:16 PM UTC

markyc wrote: post #55

_lbaq wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Living in the area is very cheap compared to continental Europe and the US. You can get very nice sea side house for 200-300k Euros, if you chose not to live by the sea, prices drops of a cliff, you can get a house for 10k Euros, a nice 200 square meter house

you mean 100k ofcourse :)

No, housing prices are pretty low except the most desirable areas, sometimes they go so low that it makes sens to cut up and move the house to a urban area...

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Post by jordanf » Sun, Aug 30, 2015, 2:58 PM UTC

Chattanooga, TN checks the boxes. Fiber internet, affordable, tons of outdoor activities. Outside magazine rated it best place to live in the US 2015 [0]. You can live just outside the city and be surrounded by nature, and the tech scene is growing.

[0] http://www.outsideonline.com/2006426/americas-best-towns-201...