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When satellite broadband internet becomes a real deal, I'm thinking about buying a sailboat (or catamaran) and travel around Europe: Scandinavia and Netherlands in summer, Spain, Italy and Canaries in winter.
Working one day per week while travelling should earn enough money to do this perpetually if you don't spend a lot.
I'm European; So I can live anywhere in Europe essentially. I'm pretty sure it would be Talinn, Estonia. Everyone there has a high competence with English, the entire society is built with "online first" and usually offered in three languages. It has a good economy, is friendly and has reasonable social policies and a lovely wilderness. Bit cold in the winter though. :)
I hear it can be hard to make friends in Estonia if you weren't born there. Just wondering if you and anyone else had any experiences being part of the community in northern Europe?
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!
Not far north of Auckland - Tawharanui peninsula, Mangawhai, etc. On a large rural mansion (preferably with ocean view). All easily achievable with about $1m USD (interest rates are great atm to). The thing to watch out is "rates" aka taxes and maintenance (ocean water does etch a bit). Downside is NZ is quite boring from cultural perspective (but super fun for boating, fishing, hunting, etc - I think most city dwell…
I'd give serious consideration to the Mackenzie Country too - Ruataniwha, Pukaki, and Tekapo are all amazing places.
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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.
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How exactly does the submarine cable connection affect things realistically? I’d have thought the point of contention for most people in Australia would be either the last mile with the boondoggle that is FttN or the distance to other countries. Does skipping a bit of terrestrial fibre backbone really make that much difference?
Brisbane is a 10ms ping away, Sydney is 20ms and 90% of the sites people use have a least a Sydney based CDN; but we can't let facts get in the way of real estate sales.