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Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
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#62Cluj, Romania
Can you elaborate? I am also from Romaania
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#63Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is an option to consider. Strategically located in growing Southeast Asia and well connected. Most folks in the city speaks English in the city, so you wont have issues getting around. There is a growing tech community here as well with a some notable startups/companies. Cost of living wise, magnitude lower than neighboring Singapore, as such a good consideration
KL is also polluted and very dirty. I couldn't recommend it to someone used to clean air and clean streets.
also the internet in MY is very slow an unreliable.
edit: fix abbr
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#64I just moved to Hobart, Australia from SF. It's quite affordable. I pay A$400 /mo rent in a share house, and walk 20 mins to a downtown co-working space every day (also A$400 /mo). Lifestyle is pretty incredible. It's small, but still a state capital city, so there's plenty going on. Hobart is also the home port for the Australian and French Antarctic programs, so a lot of smart folks come through. Plus it was a tria…
As a fellow Aussie living on the main land - Tassie is absolutely gorgeous. I'd love to work remotely from Tassie and live on a big farm. Oh boy... One can dream.
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#65If you feel adventurous you can consider moving to Poland. I would recommend Krakow. Most young people will speak English, there are couple of top Universities there (PK and AGH for technical schools, UJ for humanities, medicine and some tech too and UE for economics). The tech scene seems to be constantly growing, with lots of international companies having their offices there. As a senior dev in Poland you can earn…
You'd have to be quite apolitical to consider a move to Poland right now.
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#66Berlin or Amsterdam would be my picks in Europe.
Bangkok or KL for Asia.
Austin for the US.
Re: Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
KL is also polluted and very dirty. I couldn't recommend it to someone used to clean air and clean streets.
also the internet in MY is very slow an unreliable. edit: fix abbr
Really, I live here and we have speeds up to 30Mbps/100Mbps/1Gbps. 3/4G is quite reliable too.
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#68The answer here is places that are COLD. For any type of city, the one in a colder place is cheaper. Minneapolis might be a good choice, or Chicago if you want a bigger atmosphere. You’ll have to put in elbow grease to create an intellectual milieu but it is there.
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#69Check Bulgaria's Sofia capital - is top notch. Lots of concerts, events, bars, meetups, conferences, sports facilities. Is still growing lot in terms of IT, hundreds of job postings, major companies such as VMWare, HPs, Codix, SAP all have big offices here - check Linkedin. senior positions after taxes pay 1000-2000EU. Rents are 400-600EU for a very decent central place 80m^2 + furniture. 4 mountains around the city, 4+ winter resorts in less than 4 hours distance, 4 hours from both Black Sea and Greece's coastal line. Summer time 27-30 degrees, winter -10. Closest mountain is 30min from city center - trekking, and some ski facilities. The city is safe.
Re: Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
#70Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is an option to consider. Strategically located in growing Southeast Asia and well connected. Most folks in the city speaks English in the city, so you wont have issues getting around. There is a growing tech community here as well with a some notable startups/companies. Cost of living wise, magnitude lower than neighboring Singapore, as such a good consideration
KL is also polluted and very dirty. I couldn't recommend it to someone used to clean air and clean streets.
Can try outskirts of KL such as Petaling Jaya / Bangsar / Damansara. Decent tech talent here. Decent number of tech meetups. English-speaking people in general.
Honestly, KL/Klang Valley is such a gem, cost of living is super low for USD folks. Met many Americans who work on their startup/product here. Your runway extends by 4x thanks to currency exchange.
A huge number of co-working spaces around. Gyms too.