The beach.
My hometown has a great one [0], the only way to improve that would be a beach where it's summer all round the year.
Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
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#142I'd like to go nomad, let's travel! I am french, but I think that if I want to settle, I will go Taiwan : mountains, beach, city, good foods. And the life there is a mix between innovations and traditions, it's really nice. If it's for a short term, I will go back to Philippines, the life is really sweet and enjoyable there.
My parents are actually from Taiwan and taiwanese, but me being born and raised in CA, I would still hesitate to live in Taiwan due to the language barrier.
I'm curious why someone like you, who likely speaks even less mandarin than me would want to live there?
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#143I may be the only person left who loves San Francisco. Just got back from biking from my house through Golden Gate Park past the De Young and Cal Academy to Cliff House and down Ocean Beach. There was sunshine and people were outside. In different circumstances, there are people dancing on roller skates, learning tango, and skateboarding. Near our house there is a great Russian Bakery, tons of Chinese restaurants on…
I mean that's great but you left out a lot of the bad parts. Human feces everywhere, homeless people, broken needles, expensive rent... I think south bay you get less of the above with better weather.
And the baying tech workers!
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#144Probably stay where I am in Dublin, not that I’d want to work remotely permanently. Very much looking forward to being back in an office at some point.
EDIT: Though, at the moment the sun doesn’t go down til 22:00. I may have a different view if asked during the miserable bloody winter when the sun barely bothers rising at all. I am now wondering if it’d be practical to work remotely from Barcelona or somewhere from November to January...
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#145What place has California weather, can get by with English and his cheaper than California?
Are you looking for major cities/tech hubs? California is huge, plenty of very nice and affordable areas if you are ok with being away from a major hub.
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#146I live in Lisbon. 10m walk from the riverside, 30m uphill walk to the center, gigabit fiber, (currently) 100% remote. Would only trade for something directly on the seaside, or a little more to the West (Cascais, Guincho) for a slightly cooler climate, but those usually imply driving (which I detest) and lack “big city” amenities (most of which I can’t enjoy right now). Have zero intention of ever going back to an of…
What are schools like in Lisbon?
Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
#147New Zealand or Tasmania (AU).
Assumptions: Timezone matching isn't a constraint. Political administrations within a nation oscillate, but in general little substantive changes as people pick between two similar options. Proximity to other specific humans isn't a constraint (this seems to be a common requirement expressed in this thread). Alternatively - assume international travel is restored to normalcy.
Rationale: southern hemisphere is desirable for air quality. Politically stable (relatively). Good soil - volcanic, non-polluted. Low population density. Affordable & sizeable parcels of land - sufficient to generate food and maybe income - within commutable distance of a sufficiently large & sophisticated metropolis. Within those criteria, also easy to obtain a location at least 10m, preferably much more, above sea level. There are other considerations but they make me sound a tad paranoid.
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#148My wife and I live in Mexico. She works remotely, I did that for 10+ years, now I'm building my thing and taking some occasional freelance projects. I won't deny there are some horror stories coming from Mexico, but I'm a European and have been living here since 2009. I've never seen or experienced anything even remotely violent. I paid for a mordida once, that's it. I've lived in Mexico City, Estado de México, Verac…
> We also don't like how the political situation is changing with Amlo. Could you expand on this? I'm not keeping up with Mexican politics so I don't know much besides him being left leaning.
Not op, but I'm a Mexican living in México.
He is surrounded by incompetent and bootlicker advisors.
This administration is one of the most corrupt and violent in the past 20 years.
He has three pharaonic projects to build an outdated infrastructure that only "benefits" the president's home state.
He is actively stopping the construction for renewable energy projects and foreign investment.
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#149What place has California weather, can get by with English and his cheaper than California?
Are you looking for major cities/tech hubs? California is huge, plenty of very nice and affordable areas if you are ok with being away from a major hub.
Either, I've been in California all my life. Looking for a change but also down for any suggestions in California but outside of major cities.
Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
#150I'm European; So I can live anywhere in Europe essentially. I'm pretty sure it would be Talinn, Estonia. Everyone there has a high competence with English, the entire society is built with "online first" and usually offered in three languages. It has a good economy, is friendly and has reasonable social policies and a lovely wilderness. Bit cold in the winter though. :)
Tallinn seems like an awesome place to live in the summer. So does Helsinki. I visited in May and it was perfect. But I feel like I'd want to winter much closer to the Mediterranean, or somewhere in the Southern hemisphere.
I lived in Helsinki for a short period, and genuinely it's awesome.
It was too expensive to live central in Helsinki so I lived in Vantaa. This was not a problem as the public transportation is not over-capacity and is very punctual. When I lived there though, there was only one underground "Metro" line- not sure if that changed.
Getting to Vantaa requires an overground inter-city train.
As for the experience: everything felt very "human"- like it was designed for comfort and ease. I didn't speak any Finnish (and the little I did I could not pronounce well enough to be understood) but otherwise it was truly lovely. I even lived through the Winter there and it was still quite nice.
The only Barrier to going back is that, as I said, it's rather expensive :(