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Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?

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Post by kbyatnal » Mon, May 25, 2020, 3:56 AM UTC

cameronlpmoore wrote: post #170

larrykubin wrote: post #101

I 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 love SF as well! I've traveled around the world and lived in multiple US cities that many people consider nice/cool/fun, but SF is still my favorite city. I was in Golden Gate Park today as well and it never gets old - so beautiful, and perfect weather. The streets in my neighborhood are clean, the neighbors are all intelligent, fascinating older people, young families, and just generally really cool people. Grante…

thinking of making the move to SF soon - which neighborhood are you in?

Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?

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Post by martinesko36 » Mon, May 25, 2020, 3:58 AM UTC

unavida wrote: post #422

Surprised more people on here aren't saying nice, relaxed, sunny places like SE Asia. I'm a white american citizen and I've been living in SE Asia for 3 years having the time of my life while working remotely. I couldn't imagine living anywhere else. Looking back at the US, I don't miss the jerks everywhere, the value system of work, work, work and more money. Here in SE Asia, they value quality of life, being happy,…

Just curious, which countries in SE Asia would you recommend?

Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?

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Post by DXA9zE » Mon, May 25, 2020, 4:00 AM UTC

eric_khun wrote: post #399

Taipei, Taiwan The most underrated city/country in Asia : - Chill and relax - Awesome people, polite and clean - Best place in the world to work from cafes. Many cafes shops welcome people who works for long hours. They also care about cafe ;) I actually prefer to work from cafes than co-working here - Surrounded by nature, mountain, sea, river are within 45minutes reach. Hundred of trails around Taipei. - Metro / Bu…

Hopefully it's not exploited too much, but yes Taiwan is basically perfect place to live with reasonable comfort on the cheap.

I don't think you mentioned gyms. The Taiwanese are an oddly sports-oriented people. Throughout asia I can't think of an equal in terms of availability of cheap gyms. Public sports complexes are also sometimes good enough (but I've also found myself working out in a cramped room with a bunch of senior citizens on occasion :)).

I think you also didn't mention proximity to other countries for visiting. It's a very good location, and EVA is one of my favorite airlines.

Edit: Note that the things that make Taiwan great for living also, almost by default make it a "boring" country to some types of people. #1 for remote work possibly, definitely not #1 for thrill seeking, nightlife-type interests.

Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?

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Post by analog31 » Mon, May 25, 2020, 4:02 AM UTC

I'm happy in Madison WI right now, but there are not very many places in the US where I'd want to live, and I'm not sure the US would be my first choice of country if I didn't have roots here. I have family from Berlin, and might like it there. I liked the people in Scotland.

It needs to be a place where there's a good music scene that I can participate in.

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Post by ejflick » Mon, May 25, 2020, 4:03 AM UTC

eric_khun wrote: post #412

ejflick wrote: post #405

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looked a bit into gold card recently. Do you currently have it and are you working remotely?

Yes I do have it. and working remotely for few years now

Is your company also located in Taiwan?

I've been studying Mandarin here for a while after being a software engineer for a few years. Been thinking about what I'm gonna do once I feel comfortable in the language. Working remotely would be great if I could pull it off.

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Post by unavida » Mon, May 25, 2020, 4:03 AM UTC

martinesko36 wrote: post #432

unavida wrote: post #422

Surprised more people on here aren't saying nice, relaxed, sunny places like SE Asia. I'm a white american citizen and I've been living in SE Asia for 3 years having the time of my life while working remotely. I couldn't imagine living anywhere else. Looking back at the US, I don't miss the jerks everywhere, the value system of work, work, work and more money. Here in SE Asia, they value quality of life, being happy,…

Just curious, which countries in SE Asia would you recommend?

definitely Thailand. Vietnam is nice on the coastal cities.

Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?

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Post by Mengkudulangsat » Mon, May 25, 2020, 4:04 AM UTC

martinesko36 wrote: post #432

unavida wrote: post #422

Surprised more people on here aren't saying nice, relaxed, sunny places like SE Asia. I'm a white american citizen and I've been living in SE Asia for 3 years having the time of my life while working remotely. I couldn't imagine living anywhere else. Looking back at the US, I don't miss the jerks everywhere, the value system of work, work, work and more money. Here in SE Asia, they value quality of life, being happy,…

Just curious, which countries in SE Asia would you recommend?

KL (my hometown) is great. There's reliable gigabit internet, which is important to remote workers I reckon. Dying to convince tech folks to come here instead of Singapore.

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Post by ryannevius » Mon, May 25, 2020, 4:05 AM UTC

unavida wrote: post #422

Surprised more people on here aren't saying nice, relaxed, sunny places like SE Asia. I'm a white american citizen and I've been living in SE Asia for 3 years having the time of my life while working remotely. I couldn't imagine living anywhere else. Looking back at the US, I don't miss the jerks everywhere, the value system of work, work, work and more money. Here in SE Asia, they value quality of life, being happy,…

Most (not all) places in SE Asia have air quality that will have health ramifications that aren't worth the upsides of living there. I unfortunately recently had to move my family out of there because of it. Air quality aside, it can be a great place to live.

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Post by nigel_bree » Mon, May 25, 2020, 4:05 AM UTC

iandanforth wrote: post #283

nigel_bree wrote: post #199

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I currently live in Kaiwaka not far from Mangawhai and have since Symantec bought out Ghost in '98, as that helped me afford a first house. It's a wonderful place to live. I did a lot remotely back then and once Symantec closed in NZ a decade ago I've been 100% remote from home ever since. While I don't have an ocean view, and only about 2ha of land, it's a wonderful place to be. However, there are pretty significant…

If I'm in NZ can I come visit? Looks lovely. How's the cheese shop?

Anyone from HN who wants to can drop by on the way to a more traditional tourist spot like Mangawhai or further north (although over summer I'm often away at the weekends racing stockcars). The phone number for the library redirects to our house if it's not open.

The cheese shop is fine! I know Keith and Marita who have owned it for many years, they are good people - Ad Clarijs who founded it still occasionally runs cheesemaking classes, his place is not far from mine. Also worth a visit is the amazing Cafe Eutopia next door - https://g.page/eutopiacafe?share - which is a marvel.

It just boggles my mind how US firms don't realise how poor a value proposition - especially to people of an age to have a family or strong community ties, like the roots I have here - they offer to developers in AU/NZ when demanding that people relocate to work for them, and I'm not really optimistic that COVID-19 will really bring any significant change to their corporate cultures. I am hopeful that perhaps more firms in AU may cotton on to the fact that there's a substantial pool of exceptional veteran talent in NZ who are really underutilized, which really represents an opportunity for them if they were to make a serious attempt to hire here and let people work remotely.

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Post by zanny » Mon, May 25, 2020, 4:05 AM UTC

paxys wrote: post #196

habosa wrote: post #185

Philadelphia It's one of the five biggest cities in the US but most people routinely look past it. First of all it's fairly cheap, less than half as expensive as SF even in the nicest parts. It's got the best restaurant scene of any city I've spent time in (and almost all are free BYO). It's got a great art scene including a ton of amazing live music. 4 sports teams with passionate fan bases. It's racially diverse (n…

Agree with everything you said, but the weather makes it an instant disqualifier for me.

I live a few hours north of Philly and while there have been bad years, the last ~4 have been generally great. Generally mild winters and only intermittently unbearably hot and humid summers.