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

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Post by retsibsi »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #294
apoverton wrote: post #275

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Curious, what books did you buy? I’ve been getting interested in this sort of thing lately.

I bought some book that was a bunch of excerpts from classic urban planning works. I bought a book called "Seeing like the state." I bought a book about the Clemente Course in Humanities (there is a website for this these days). I no doubt bought other stuff. I also enjoyed "How buildings learn" but I don't think I bought it that day. I run r/CitizenPlanners and there are some links there to videos and what not.

For anyone interested, Scott Alexander wrote a longish review of Seeing Like A State: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...

Personally I found the book a bit long and repetitive: although the examples were varied, each was used to restate the same basic point. But that may be my own problem. After all, if you're trying to support a generalisation using case studies, it's not enough to breeze through one or two and assure the reader that others exist; you need to go into detail about as many as you reasonably can.

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Post by eric_khun »

woutr_be wrote: post #441
eric_khun wrote: post #412

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

For the gold card, do you not need to be employed by a local company? If not, that's a pretty good deal.

If you apply via salary, you need to be employed by any company. Freelancing income doesn't count. You need to justify it with employment letter, and tax return.

The other way is to qualify for any of their "talent" needs. Blockchain, VR, IA, and have proof it it (publication, work, projects). They have 8 categories of people that can qualify: https://foreigntalentact.ndc.gov.tw/en/cp.aspx?n=128B875DE9C...

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Post by bitcoinmoney »

nerdwaller wrote: post #408
ngngngng wrote: post #300

I live here already. The mountains of Utah, 30 minutes from BYU. My house was very affordable on my salary alone and is 5000 square feet. I have a whole acre of forest for a backyard and I'm a short walk from trails into the mountains that I can explore for hours. BYU being close is great because the town has an amazing food and music scene for it's size. BYU has a great art museum and does concerts regularly. Bands…

I lived in SLC for a bit and loved it there, I can only imagine how great it is further out from the city. Utah seemed undiscovered at the time, and since leaving our house value has skyrocketed near Liberty Park, and tech has exploded. It seems the local term is "the silicon slopes", which is creative.

Lived in logan for 4 years. Hate the brutal UTah winter.

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Post by eric_khun »

DXA9zE wrote: post #433
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…

Spot on, love the gyms here. They have MANY decent gyms where you pay by the hour, and sometimes by the minutes without any membership. And really cheap, about usd 1,5 per hour .

Nice point on being one of the hub for flying in Asia. It's connected to everywhere within 1 or 2 hours reach(Philipine,China,Japan,Korea, SG etc...)

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Post by bradlys »

JMTQp8lwXL wrote: post #372
klipt wrote: post #355

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Also people who bought houses long ago pay almost no property tax. Prop 13 is rent control for landowners.

If the number of renters exceeds owners statewide [0], Prop 13 will become a victim of it's own success. It helped existing homeowners stay in place so well that growth that otherwise would've occurred did not, and the minority of remaining homeowners will lose their property tax benefits. [0]: There's a slight tilt towards owners (54%). If property prices continue to become less affordable, it seems reasonable there…

The good thing for homeowners is that renters don't vote. On top of that - many renters are also ineligible to vote in CA. (Cause no citizenship)

If prop 13 were to die, you'd think it'd be this year with all the budget problems coming up. It won't though. Politicians would face a mass exodus even if they kept in an exception for primary homes/business-locations. There's no way they'd all stay in office.

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Post by poulsbohemian »

FWIW for those considering relocation: I grew up in the Seattle area and spent part of my career in Portland. I made a move to eastern Washington ten years ago, to do the remote worker thing. There are sacrifices you’ll make, but the cost of real estate is so much less than the coasts, it’s not that hard to get to either place for their respective amenities, and the whole not having a commute + access to the outdoors is overall a good trade off for the downsides of small town life.

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Post by jgwil2 »

jonstewart wrote: post #276
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…

It’s true that Philadelphia has all these great benefits, but they’re counterbalanced by Phillies fans, the trashiest in baseball. Head further south to DC and there are many of these same benefits, tons of free cultural activities, and the reigning World Series Champs.

Presumably not as cheap though

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Post by refurb »

ethanbond wrote: post #376
121789 wrote: post #173

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Yeah everyone loves those things too, they just don't want to deal with the cost and quality of life from the homeless/drug problem. I walked up to beautiful Corona Heights today and saw all of the amazing views, but then I walked home past the ever-increasing numbers of tents popping up on the street to my overpriced apartment in the mission where I currently have to listen to one mentally disabled homeless person s…

The important thing to remember is that the same forces that made those people homeless are what made you pay for your overpriced apartment. All the “unlanded” are sharecroppers, some better paid than others. Time for some solidarity among the renter class.

And what forces are those? Demand for housing?

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Post by shuckles »

bitcoinmoney wrote: post #446
mark_l_watson wrote: post #406

My wife and I moved from Solana Beach California to Sedona Arizona (in the mountains, two hours north of Phoenix) in 1998 and it was a great decision. We did close up our house twice for a while and left town when I worked at Google and Capital One, but Sedona has been our home most of the time. Work wise it has been OK remotely consulting, but that only worked because I usually enjoy whatever someone is paying me to…

Dang that’s a good deal. How much salary do you get for 15 hrs/week? Is the rest and vest situation?

His website has a consulting rate: https://markwatson.com/consulting/
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