In Finland for the 3 good months to catch the 3 good weeks of summer. But I have yet to figure out a CO2 acceptable way of how to travel so often.
Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
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#512Too late to become a nomad, I’m a middle-aged divorcee with kids; but as soon as the little devils are of adult age, I’ll likely say bye to England and fuck off back to Italy, probably the South-East - where the weather is nice, the beaches are sandy, and life is fairly cheap.
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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.
Homelesnes can be cured only by treating housing as a basic human right. There are plenty of examples of this globally so it's a fact, not a theory or a political fad.
If you prefer more equal ownership of capital there is nothing wrong with that.
But that is completely orthogonal to solving 'the problem' of homelessness. Please don't confuse the two issues.
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#514Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I've known a number of homeless people with serious mental illnesses who were both much happier and saner once they had an apartment (and, crucially, were helped with getting there).
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#515I would live in NYC, which is where I already live. NYC won't feel like NYC while we have SIP because there are no performances, no arts, etc. But I'm hopeful that will all return in 18 months. And so in my idealized remote setup, the balance I want is: A) Work environment optimized for deep work. I run a company, but I've found a way to do that with very few meetings and very little email. Most weeks I just have one…
I loved NYC in many ways. But it's unforgiving. If you make a single mistake, or if anything bad happens to you, you'll be crushed. Lucky enough if you even have the dough to hire a U-Haul to hump your stuff back to the real world.
NYC is great. But keep everything you care about in three suitcases, and be ready to haul ass at a moment's notice. And for heaven's sake, don't sign a lease, much less a mortgage.
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#516Colorado. I'd move up to a smaller mountain town somewhere close enough to a bigger city that you can still drive down for the evening. But the weather and the mountains up there have been in my heart for years. In the summer it's just all green and blue, sunny but 75 degrees.
In the 70s, was great. Now overrun by Googlers.
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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.
I'm still on my master's, so I'm no expert in the subject yet. I did my bachelor's project on remote sensing of avalanches [1] and have worked with the Swedish EPA for the last year building a structured database of remotely detected avalanche activity.
This summer I'll do some work on data preparation for machine learning for the Norwegian equivalent, which will hopefully turn into a master's project.
I think it's a great industry, because there's lot of interesting tech that's relevant to work with (both SW and HW, mostly radio related stuff, but also infrasound and seismologic detectors), it's so small that you work internationally from the start, and the people working are ranging from mountain guides to database administrators.
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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.
There actually is a measure on the ballot to modify prop 13 this year: https://ballotpedia.org/California_Tax_on_Commercial_and_Ind... — as you said, this is the year for it to pass.
I wonder if this will have any effect on housing. As it stands, it seems like this will do nothing and only affect commercial real estate. So, likely, a lot of small businesses that have held the property for decades will close shop. I expect to see a lot of expensive commercial real estate be vacant for years if this passes.
Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
#519Colorado. I'd move up to a smaller mountain town somewhere close enough to a bigger city that you can still drive down for the evening. But the weather and the mountains up there have been in my heart for years. In the summer it's just all green and blue, sunny but 75 degrees.
In the 70s, was great. Now overrun by Googlers.
I meant 70s in terms of temperature
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#520I've been working almost entirely remote (some occasional short periods of going to a small office with clients) for about 12 years. For most of it, I've been living in Thailand (almost 8 years). Lifestyle here is pretty laid back, but you need to be more aware of your own/your family's safety, in a whole lot of different ways. It's also not particularly easy on foreigners if you want to run a company here, but it's…
Highly recommend Warrnambool as far as regional Victorian towns go, but the lack of humidity, constant wind and freezing water would take getting used to after Thailand. The Sunshine Coast or Cairns have a similar vibe but warmer weather.