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

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Post by canada_dry »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #418
canada_dry wrote: post #160

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Gotta say Kerala looks pretty livable. https://www.google.ca/maps/@8.0832685,77.5565189,3a,75y,326.... Traveling through India for a couple months is on my bucket list, and now Kerala is part of that.

How did you presumably google Kerala and then pick a city on a different coast in a different state?

Covid brain.

Kindly note though that the distance from the point I chose to the state of Kerala (not the city) is roughly the distance from Miami to Boca Raton.

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Post by DoreenMichele »

nwallin wrote: post #416
wolco wrote: post #391

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Tents? I didn't realize it has gotten that bad. Do they try to remove them?

The city has a limited ability to remove them. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Martin v Boise, which held that it was illegal for the city (of Boise, Idaho) to remove homeless people from public spaces if the city has insufficient homeless shelters. This is a binding precedent in San Francisco, which is also in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The city of Boise, Idaho appealed to the Supreme Court, prodded b…

cities in California oughta build more homeless shelters.

Oh, please, god, no.

California desperately needs more actual housing. That's a huge issue in California.

More homeless shelters just drags out the problem. It doesn't solve it.

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

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Post by baby »

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…

Honestly, if SF was a bit warmer, and didn't have all the homelessness, it wouldn't be such a bad city (assuming you have the luxury to afford it). But I'm a bit fed up with the state of the city personally, I don't think I can stay here for long... it is eating your soul to see so much poverty.

I'm really baffled, I have no solutions to offer, I'm just baffled that everyone can see that SF is in a very very bad state and yet nothing is improving.

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

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Post by natalyarostova »

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.

The median homeless person living on the streets of SF wouldn’t be doing fine if rent was cheaper. These are severely mentally ill people suffering from severe drug addiction comorbidities in a system that fundamentally respects their right to live this way.

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

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Post by baby »

wolco wrote: post #391
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…

Tents? I didn't realize it has gotten that bad. Do they try to remove them?

I'm sad that this is the first thing we're thinking about, removing them. What does it mean, displacing them so that it's somebody else's problem? Putting them in jail? Killing them?

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Post by tricolon »

widforss wrote: post #152
ganstyles wrote: post #104

I haven't seen it mentioned, but Boulder for me. I'm really into outdoors sports all year round, but winter sports in particular. To be able to work in a cool locale that is built around that lifestyle, but also where there are a lot of good coffee spots and restaurants, and where there is a sizable tech population with many major tech companies having offices there, sounds like the best of all worlds. Having a tech…

My current trajectory is headed for the tech side of the avalanche business, and its great. People live all over the mountains, so nobody really cares where you are, everything happens by teleconference anyway. So I basically hope to find a small house on the Cap of the North and work from there.

> the tech side of the avalanche business

Can you tell me more? I've been reading more and more about avalanche safety recently.

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

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Post by natalyarostova »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #482
nwallin wrote: post #416

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The city has a limited ability to remove them. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Martin v Boise, which held that it was illegal for the city (of Boise, Idaho) to remove homeless people from public spaces if the city has insufficient homeless shelters. This is a binding precedent in San Francisco, which is also in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The city of Boise, Idaho appealed to the Supreme Court, prodded b…

cities in California oughta build more homeless shelters. Oh, please, god, no. California desperately needs more actual housing. That's a huge issue in California. More homeless shelters just drags out the problem. It doesn't solve it.

The people who scream at me in a schizophrenic drug addled haze aren’t going to go away because cheap 1br housing pops up in an affordable neighborhood. They do need help though. They need homeless institutions.

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

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Post by DoreenMichele »

baby wrote: post #486
wolco wrote: post #391

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Tents? I didn't realize it has gotten that bad. Do they try to remove them?

I'm sad that this is the first thing we're thinking about, removing them. What does it mean, displacing them so that it's somebody else's problem? Putting them in jail? Killing them?

Killing them?

Given how much lower the average lifespan is for homeless individuals, we are more or less killing them.

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

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Post by baby »

almost_usual wrote: post #346
DoreenMichele wrote: post #179

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When I got to visit SF, it was a lovely, magical city and it inspired me to buy $300 worth of books related to my interest in someday becoming a city planner (or something similar). The problem is I can't possibly afford to live there. If you can live there, cool. For many people, it's just too expensive to make it into a nice experience. All those restaurants nearby are only cool if you can afford the high cost of h…

Also depends on when you started renting. I know people paying $700 a month in SF for a one bedroom but they moved here over a decade ago.

I know people who have moved here a decade ago and they are paying 1600$ for a small one bedroom apartment in SOMA. For 700$ it must have been the tiniest of studios.
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