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

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Post by dijit »

atlasunshrugged wrote: post #221
jedberg wrote: post #163

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> everything felt very "human"- like it was designed for comfort and ease When I was in Helsinki, I could tell the entire place had been designed to take care of people. When we first arrived, we tried to buy train tickets, and were then told that families with strollers ride for free! I didn't see any homeless people, and the one sort of "off-balance" person was clearly still getting food and health care. The entir…

RE homeless people - when I went (several times as I lived across the bay in Tallinn) the only homeless people I saw were refugees or pretend refugees (someone told me it was an organized crime thing but I have no knowledge of whether that's true or not) and I'm not even sure those people were truly homeless or just panhandling

There’s a similar organised crime thing in Sweden. It’s not uncommon to see some homeless person being berated by someone of the same race in a high end luxury car that has been modified.

The nature of the argument does imply that they know each other.

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

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Post by dijit »

Jommi wrote: post #302
dijit wrote: post #150

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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: everyt…

What are you comparing to that makes Helsinki expensive?

Talinn, Malmo Sweden, Coventry UK.

I lived in London for 6y and it’s comparable.

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Post by baby »

Markoff wrote: post #577
baby wrote: post #495

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I've been thinking about moving to Taipei since I visited you. I wish I could go back to China but 1. pollution and 2. censorship are real deal breakers. On the other hand I'm wondering about how it compares to some cities in Thailand (ChiangMai) or even Korea.

way more expensive COL than Thailand, but still cheaper than China/Korea

what is COL?

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

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Post by baby »

2019-nCoV wrote: post #532
baby wrote: post #492

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Bad luck, I moved from London to SF a bit more than a year ago and: * no, London is much much cleaner than SF. I'd rather take a stroll in London. * there's very little amount of homeless compared to SF. Again, I'd rather take a stroll in London. I was paying 1300GBP (so around 1500USD) for a one bedroom apartment in Battersea (so zone2). I am now paying 3350USD for a small one bedroom in Castro.

Battersea and Castro aren't comparable. Inner areas East of Shoreditch or north of Regent's Canal are consistently dirtier than SF's worst.

I'm comparing the whole cities. Shoreditch is lovely in my opinion, used to go there every week end.

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Post by noufal1359 »

SNosTrAnDbLe wrote: post #93

My village in Kerala, India. I got a house and I have a small patch of land which is very fertile and plenty of water (there are places with water scarcity). I get to watch the monsoon rains. The beach is like a couple of miles away. The mountains are also quite close and its very beautiful and its very much untouched nature. It's also very hot and humid but I am fine with that. Also, they get fiber so the internet i…

+1 for Kerala. My native is Kerala, but I was living in Bangalore for job. Due to Covid19, right now I am WFH from Kerala. Only issue I see is, in summer 3 months (March to May), it will be hot and humid here, so AC is required. Otherwise all good.

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Post by quickthrower2 »

somishere wrote: post #464

Wife and I quit our jobs in Sydney and took six months to circumnavigate Australia en route to a new life of unknowns in sleepy Cairns, up in the north of the country (home to the Great Barrier Reef and also the oldest rainforest in the world). Was expecting to work remotely once we arrived, but am now back working in tech (non-remote) in definitely the most interesting job I've ever had, where I even get to dive for…

Sounds awesome!

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Post by NotSammyHagar »

wojciii wrote: post #542

I can live anywhere with 1000/1000 fiber connection. Preferably outside a big city (biking distance, 20-30 km or so) and with alternative source of power (solar with battery backup). If a shtf situation arises we will at least have a better chance to survive for a while or ride out a food crisis because we are surrounded by food (farm country). Not many people live around here in DK. This is perfect for me.

DK?

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almost_usual wrote: post #350
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…

Those things are great and also why I love SF. The problem is as I’ve gotten into my mid-late 30s those things I enjoyed in my 20s aren’t as magical as they used to be. Most of this has to do with settling down and thinking more about a family than myself and career. My body also can’t recover from those nights in SF as well as I get older. SF is a Peter Pan city though, you can stay young there forever and do fine.…

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

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Post by Raed667 »

david927 wrote: post #395

I'm an American but I'm lucky enough to have lived in six countries. The winner for me is Nice, France. It has it all: culture and history, swimming and endless fun in the summer, skiing in the Alps in winter. I lived there for six years and I can't imagine another place I would want to live.

Funny enough, I'm currently living in downtown Nice and I would prefer to leave it.

The local population is (very) old, everything is overpriced, culturally its a place where you have to keep spending to do anything.

The beach is (not this year) always overcrowded with tourists and skiing is so many hours of painful driving away.

I don't feel its charm anymore.

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