Melbourne Australia. Tech meetups, but expensive. Top city to live in the world, almost every year.
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#55281 Nobel Laureates This is misleading, because it falsely counts winners of the "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences Prize in Economic Sciences" as a Nobel price. Alfred Nobel did not donate a price for economics. The Sveriges Riksbank (= bank of the swedish empire) created this price (against the explicit wishes of the Nobel foundation [1]) in order to 'cash' in on the reputation of Nobel price. This is…
Seems to be a technical distinction without a difference though. Same amount of money, announced at the same time, awarded at the same ceremony, and just as prestigious. Sure, it’s an expansion of the original prize, but that shouldn’t take away from the fact that for anyone in the world, the awardee is for all practical purposes a Nobel prize winner.
The Nobel Prize awards outstanding contributions to humanity. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences awards people pushing neoliberalism. Read up on the Mont Pelerin Society to learn more about it.
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#553Amsterdam is very interesting for what you want. The city is practically a big village. Everything is reachable by bike so no need to use the public transport. Everyone speaks English perfectly though it is a big plus if you speak Dutch.
The tech scene is really good with a great market for software engineers and well paid job.
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agree. I'm from Poland but since the beginning of my programming career I've been working mostly for abroad companies (because of earnings). And about the politics... Only people that want to play into 'politics' game really cares what's happening here - other people just don't care and live happily.
Stick with that attitude long enough and you, too, will care about the "politics game".
I've noticed that many people comment my attitude like this, but I've noticed that the less I care, the more happy life I live (and my friends as well).
Caring about politics is a total waste of time and energy - in my opinion it's just better to turn these resources into e.g. earning more money than e.g. thinking how much politicians are "stealing" it from us - I think that's the main reason why people are so angry these days and live unhappy lifes
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#555If 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…
There's one word that immediately negates all the good things you mentioned.
Smog.
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#556Depending on your ability to work remotely, I would make the "case" that you should consider Portugal . Lisbon and Porto are super popular with ["digital nomad"] remote workers who work for international companies so earn in USD but spend [much less] in Euros for a superb lifestyle. There's a reason @paddycosgrave moved Web Summit to Lisbon. It's one of the cheapest cities in Europe and [unlike Barcelona] everyone sp…
I think there is something missing in your story. My Portuguese friends who fled Portugal to London paint different picture of their lovely country. Maybe there are different rules to foreigners there?
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Why did you italicize so many words?
I don't think it's a bad style of writing for a forum like this. In natural speech, we communicate a lot by our use of emphasis. Consider three sentences which could carry very different meanings: Polite decline: "No, thank you." Firm decline: " No , thank you." Scolding decline: "No, thank you ." Perhaps not the best examples, but if italics helps reduce ambiguity and preserve more subtlety, I'm for it.
Except it seems to be completely random words, with a "few" random quotation marks and brackets [thrown] in the mix. Taken together it has the opposite effect of what it’s supposed to achieve.
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The fact that you call a traffic light a "robot" makes me suspect you're a South African or your parents are :) I have never been hijacked, robot or otherwise. The worst that happened to me was getting mugged in a dark alley around 7pm in Cape Town. Rely shouldn't have been walking around that neighbourhood well-dressed. In general I leave my laptop in the trunk and ladies leave their bags there too. The most common…
>"The most common form of traffic light theft is "smash and grab" which is entirely mitigated by getting the right kind of windows and not leaving your stuff on the seat/where it's visible." That's quite a statement that the experience of waiting at a stoplight would be improved by investing in special windows for your car. Does this to all of ZA or just Cape Town?
Its quite common for almost all new cars to come with driver and main passenger side windows with the “smash and grab” tint.
I would recommend this to anyone driving in South Africa. I’ve never been smash and grabbed because I generally pay attention to anyone approaching my car and try to make eye contact. Usually people are zoning out on their phone or whatever and make easy targets.
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#559Taiwan. come and see
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#560Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is true. Lots of other mentions of Germany in this thread with good points. The downsides to Germany that Americans and Canadians (and to a lesser extent British) might perceive: - Constant store closures. Almost all Sundays and numerous holidays, almost all stores, including groceries, are closed. Don't forget to get milk or you have to trek to the central train station. - Very bad international food. Even in m…
From all the things that are going wrong in Germany, this is the most bizarre compilation I have ever seen (except the food situation). Probably an indicator for how good life is in Germany in general :)
The shop thing is true though, especially in Munich (all of Bavaria really) where stores close at 20:00. Especially when Saturday or Monday are holidays, the rush in shops is like it is the last days of civilization.
Here in Denmark it is no problem to go shopping on Sunday at least until 22:00 at all and even past that it is possible.
It is so much nicer to not have to specifically plan on when to go shopping.