What place has California weather, can get by with English and his cheaper than California?
There are places in Australia that might have weather similar to California. USD would go further here also.
Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
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#642Same place but with more travel
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#643I would repatriate to a quiet fjord in northern Norway, code outdoors in the summer with Grieg echoing through the fjord. In the winter I'd code in the sun room while the northern lights swirled overhead. That would be my dream at least. For those that have been to northern Norway, you'll get this. For those that haven't, you'll just scratch your head.
I've been as far North as Molde/Ålesund. I hated it. Yeah, the fjords are desperately pretty. I had a great time driving around Geiranger and the Atlanterhavsveien. Trollstigen would have been nice if it weren't rammed with caravans. But otherwise, no thanks. It's extortionately expensive, there's nothing to do there, it's a breeding ground for billions of mosquitoes, and there's nothing good about such extreme seaso…
Well, Molde & Ålesund are west, not north ;) Tromsø is proper north and very different from Molde/Ålesund. There's a lot more culture there, as well as being the right place for sitting in a fjord and watching northern lights. I know people who have moved there temporarily and really liked it.
But it's definitely the case that whilst the Scandinavian lifestyle often features as best life satisfaction/happiest/whatever, it's definitely down to personal preference. These countries also tend to score low on happiness/life satisfaction for immigrants, which shows that the benefits are only perceived/received by some.
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#644I 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…
> I have made many interesting and creative friends here who are from all over the world. I get to work on mobile games, but there are many other opportunities around. Among my coworkers are digital artists and painters, musicians, engineers, hip hop dancers, drag show performers, people who party all night in the Castro, a muay Thai boxer, mixologists, and more interests than I can list. Being mostly in Seattle for…
> . At least there were easy outs in going to galleries or clubs or art/makerspaces or various meets for non-tech things in SF
I hear the same thing about New York and to that I wonder:
1) Do people actually like these things
2) or are they a just a way to virtue signal their cosmopolitan bona fides to the other graduates of selective universities?
Perhaps I'm just an unsophisticated public school grad, but I've never met anybody that actually takes part in these things even when they live in New York, etc.
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#645I 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 work remotely and live in NYC. Honestly, I cannot imagine living anywhere else. Present conditions notwithstanding, I believe New York to be an ideal place to base oneself. The connivence to both everyday needs, world-class food, culture, and yes, employers, is unparalleled. And on top of that, there is perhaps no better place in the US from which to explore the world. People say it's expensive but they act as if y…
Can someone please explain what people mean by "culture"? I'm a working class joe, I can't afford to pay for Broadway tickets regularly. What's the benefit here?
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#646Philadelphia 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…
> 4 sports teams with passionate fan bases.
Rabid. They have rabid fan bases.
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that's just not truth unless you live in the biggest cities, it's not really an issue in most of the places, for instance I travelled across Thailand for months many times and only place I would consider dirty regarding air quality would be Bangkok
You're absolutley wrong. Air quality is a huge issue in most Asian countries due to crop burning especially Thailand. You should look at the AQI and pm2.5 levels on a trusted app.
yes, crop burning is seasonal issue in some locations of Thailand, Malaysia (from ID) and Indonesia, not all year round issue
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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.
People who rent, can't vote in the US??
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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?
Housing prices are set as high as they need to be in order to guarantee at least “a little bit” of poverty.
Everyone being housed is effectively a signal to landlords that rent is too cheap.
We obviously produce enough capital to ensure everyone is housed and fed, yet housing costs simply keep rising with productivity because, well, why wouldn’t they?
Zoning/NIMBYism doesn’t help either, but even with perfect zoning, prices would still rise with productivity.
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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.
This comment seems unrelated to mine.
People are made homeless because housing costs rise arbitrarily high along with productivity. To the market, the definition of “the correct price” for housing is when there is “a little bit” of poverty.
If you happen to earn enough to land above that price then you are paying for your overpriced apartment. If you happen to fall below that line, you are homeless.
The “force” at play is a broken pricing scheme which allows/encourages landlords to continue raising prices as high as they can possibly go, which in a super high productivity area like SFBA or NYC is extremely high.