Wales near Snowdonia ?
Ask HN: Best places in Europe to leave city life and work on your projects?
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#12Pomorie, Bulgaria. Try a quick Google image search and you'll get the picture. Small town colonized since ancient Thracian times with beautiful beaches, a salt lake of unique biodiversity, and magnificent vineyards - quiet even during peak tourist season.
Fast internet, delicious food, cheap rent, and an abundance of talented programmers.
A 2hr drive takes you into one of 3 mountain ranges (Balkan, Rila, Pirin), a 5 minute walk takes you to windsurfing or any variety of watersports.
(If you're looking for a place to stay or have any questions -- okolobeta@gmail.com)
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#13Don't go to Switzerland. Flying into Malaga southern Spain there are lovely mountain areas between seville and Granada, Google el chorro for example. Or east of Rome about an hour or two are some wonderful mountain regions-you might find a hotel near sulmona. Or mallorca, sardinia, sicily all have fabulous scenery, history, lifestyle.
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#14Morocco, marrakesh or essourira would also be a cheap option.
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#15If you like Switzerland you will like Slovenia, countryside is not that much different, it's not expensive to live and you have lots of nice places to visit. There are not lots of meetups though...
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#16Tarifa (ES), has some small 'digital nomad' scene and nature, sea and mountains. Other option is Granada (ES), some of the highest mountains of Europe, good weather but nature/mountains a bit dry compared to Switzerland Brasov (RO), fast internet (faster than UK), good food, friendly people and more nature and mountains (Carpates) than you can hope for (and bears for bonus points). Also good priced vs Switzerland and…
+1 for Tarifa (as long as you don't mind the wind!). I spent some time there about 10 years ago (can't believe it's been that long!). I remember meeting a few 'digital nomads', although I don't think the term was commonly used back then.
It's close to some nice Spanish cities (Cadiz, Jerez, Sevilla, Malaga etc) if you want a change of scene on the weekends, and you can get a ferry to Morocco which takes about 30 minutes.
English is widely spoken, but if you're interested in learning Spanish there's a great little language school in the town.
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#17Croatia!
Flights from UK can cost around 10 euros sometimes, you can get a place for real cheap (under 100 GBP per month), beer costs about 1-1.5 GBP in bars, lunch in a restaurant can be as low as 2.5 GBP and life in general is pretty cheap (most people here live on 300-350 GBP per month). You can live on the seaside, on an island, in the mountains, in a city or combination of any of those. Literally, pick any 2 and you can find a place like that.
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#18Cagliari - Sardinia - Italy
Lovely city, optic fiber (not everywhere), LTE/4G, Sardinia is a paradise for beaches and mountains alike.
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/48-hours-in/cagliari-tra...
Also: https://www.guidemeright.com/ was born in Cagliari
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#19Barcelona & Lisbon.
Hard to focus on work there...
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#20Can I very strongly recommend this http://sende.co/ I was looking for exactly the same thing about 9 months ago and came across this. My girlfriend and I visited and we weren't sure what to expect at all. We immediately fell in love with the place and ended up buying a house there (for under $10k). The couple who are 'running' it are amazing people and are looking to turn this entire Spanish village into one big make…
This place looks interesting! Are you running a business from there / living there full time?
Also, you bought a house, outright, for under $10k? I know Spanish property values have taken a hit but that sounds insane!