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Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by zionic » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 3:47 PM UTC

jdavis703 wrote: post #77

beauzero wrote: post #41

Atlanta for $ to cost of living/quality. Rural Alabama like Sylacauga (metro/eletric company fiber to your home) for "work from home". Both my wife and I work from home in rural Georgia (Carrollton)...$300k bought us 25 acres, a refurbished 2500 square feet farm house, 6 stall horse barn, 1/2 acre pond, and shop with concrete floor and electricity. There are options out there, lots of them.

My dad's side of the family is in Georgia. You couldn't pay me $300k to deal with the racism in rural Georgia. Yes not all people out there are bad, but there's enough I'd rather line elsewhere.

Are sweeping generalizations of almost 11 million people the kind of comment we want to encourage on HN?

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by hrydgard » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 3:47 PM UTC

deadbunny wrote: post #25

tootie wrote: post #21

At the risk of sounding overly woke, houses and cars are terrible for the climate. Also, there's a reason that big businesses and highly-educated professionals gravitate towards. More fluid labor and job markets. I'd think a better goal here would be build up technology industries in smaller cities.

Houses are terrible for the climate?

Apartment buildings are way better. Doesn't fit all lifestyles though of course.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by chasd00 » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 3:48 PM UTC

ramraj07 wrote: post #69

chasd00 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wow that almost exactly describes where i'm headed to next but outside of Dallas. My plan is to lease the stables since I have no livestock and don't desire any. Most of my family are West Texas ranchers and oil hands, i'm the lone computer nerd. I have no desire to work as hard as the ranchers in my family do.

How far out of Dallas do you need to get 25 acres for 300k?

well, ok not exactly. I'm not getting 25 acres for 300k but am getting 10 with horse barn/stables, a large "shop", a house+pool the wife loves and a MIL suite for about 650k and 30min Southeast of downtown. It's not a done deal but my mother-in-law will be moving in with me/wife+2kids so we're taking it seriously and will be making an offer soon.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by mdszy » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 3:49 PM UTC

tempsy wrote: post #88

realbarack wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paying an extra $1.5k per month on rent isn't insane when it gets you $50 or $100k additional annual salary.

$1.5k is generous...it's more like $500-$1k maybe. I'm lucky to have my own place in SF but most people have roommates because SF rentals is mostly houses, but if you lived nearly anywhere else you'd almost certainly find your own place and not scramble to find a roommate. So you go from paying $2k/month with roommates to maybe $1.5k/month without. Not a huge difference.

Not having roommates is 100% worth not saving a whole ton of money to me.

Fuck having roommates.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by linuxuser001 » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 3:49 PM UTC

zionic wrote: post #91

jdavis703 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My dad's side of the family is in Georgia. You couldn't pay me $300k to deal with the racism in rural Georgia. Yes not all people out there are bad, but there's enough I'd rather line elsewhere.

Are sweeping generalizations of almost 11 million people the kind of comment we want to encourage on HN?

Yeah we should keep it a secret how racist America is.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by jiveturkey » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 3:50 PM UTC

usaar333 wrote: post #48

Who is this targeting? An engineer already saves far more than this moving to a lower income tax state with lower COL (e.g. Washington, Nevada, Texas).

It's targetting people that don't want to move.

"How it Works":

> A free remote-first office, designed specifically for the needs of remote workers

So what it is, is a we-work like space aggregator, positioning themselves somewhat above the value chain of just empty space.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by throwaway34526 » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 3:50 PM UTC

jdavis703 wrote: post #77

beauzero wrote: post #41

Atlanta for $ to cost of living/quality. Rural Alabama like Sylacauga (metro/eletric company fiber to your home) for "work from home". Both my wife and I work from home in rural Georgia (Carrollton)...$300k bought us 25 acres, a refurbished 2500 square feet farm house, 6 stall horse barn, 1/2 acre pond, and shop with concrete floor and electricity. There are options out there, lots of them.

My dad's side of the family is in Georgia. You couldn't pay me $300k to deal with the racism in rural Georgia. Yes not all people out there are bad, but there's enough I'd rather line elsewhere.

Agreed. I also grew up in a semi rural town, on the East Coast, and I wouldn’t ever want to go back.

If you’re a minority, in an interracial relationship, or are LGBT, living in a rural area can have serious quality of life issues that often aren’t mentioned.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by csa » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 3:51 PM UTC

chipgap98 wrote: post #5

blakesterz wrote: post #2

I'm not sure if this is a real site or not... but let's assume it is, what's the deal with "Stop waiting in line for brunch"? I get the commute and own your own home things, these seem like BIG deals in life. Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area or is this an inside joke or something like that? Everything I know about living around there I've learned from HN and I…

I assume this is a joke about millenials and brunch. Kind of like how millenials can't afford houses because they spend too much money on avocados

I believe the meme is “avocado toast” — a perfect brunch!

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by starpilot » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 3:51 PM UTC

beauzero wrote: post #41

Atlanta for $ to cost of living/quality. Rural Alabama like Sylacauga (metro/eletric company fiber to your home) for "work from home". Both my wife and I work from home in rural Georgia (Carrollton)...$300k bought us 25 acres, a refurbished 2500 square feet farm house, 6 stall horse barn, 1/2 acre pond, and shop with concrete floor and electricity. There are options out there, lots of them.

Las Vegas for great rock climbing and growing Californication.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by JDiculous » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 3:51 PM UTC

As a remote worker who left a high cost of living city (NYC) myself, I'm all in favor of promoting remote work, but I don't see the value add in me adding my email there. What exactly do I get? Job listings? The site doesn't really make it clear.

I guess every startup these days starts off with a fancy landing page who's goal is to get you to input your email, which they then use to gauge interest and decide whether or not to actually build out the product. Doesn't really tempt me to want to sign up.

Also I'm all in favor of promoting underdeveloped communities in America, but my #1 hesitation would be boredom. America seems extremely rural outside of the big cities and you need a car to do anything, and I'd imagine there isn't much of a sense of community. I grew up in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and even that I found very boring. I'd love to be proven wrong, but in any case that's why I choose to work remotely from outside the U.S.