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Some nice spanish city that's not super crowded with good food and sea while being kinda affordable. Valencia comes to mind.
Granada or Malaga are both better, check them out if you haven’t already
I don't really like Málaga but Granada is also a solid choice if you can bear the hot weather.
* good to high abidance to rule of law
* little to no speculative investments in real estate
Main issues I have right now is low quality of existing indexes, and lack of anecdotal data for potential candidates. I'm not just talking about countries, but specific areas also.
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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 pl…
Places with less inflated housing prices had a 'homeless problem' as well until they made home a basic human right.
Hence empirically I doubt you can 'fix homelesness' by fixing the housing market. You can fix the housing market but will still have homeless problem - until you make home a human right.
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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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Either, I've been in California all my life. Looking for a change but also down for any suggestions in California but outside of major cities.
Chico, Roseville, Granite Bay, similar types of places in socal 2 or 3 hours from the big cities.
I’ve never been to Palm Springs myself but have heard good things.
Ventura is also reasonable considering what you get: beach, proximity to LA and right next door to beautiful Santa Barbera.
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I think the general negative stereotype about Spaniards in Mexico is that they're brash and stupid. Mexico's negative Polish jokes demeaning a culture's intelligence would be comparable to Galician jokes, dating from a time when there used to be more Galician immigration into Mexico. Iberian accents don't sound cultured and distinguished to most Mexicans; also, Spaniards more casually use words that sound rude to Mex…
> Spaniards more casually use words that sound rude to Mexicans Yes, this is totally true. Also Mexicans generally try to speak properly unless they are with friends or family. They typically shush bad words, use more polite substitutes, or they start a sentence with "excuse me but...". In Spain nobody cares. > pier25's experience may have been entirely positive Yeah, totally. I've lived in different countries so I a…
Jajajaja me encantaría ver esa playera.
I currently live in Seattle, and I'm seriously considering somewhere in Idaho or Montana. But on top of the corona situation I also have some pending life stuff that's still to be resolved. Depending on the outcome of that and my company being cool with full remote (no reason not to bring it up), I really wanna move somewhere cheaper.
My wife and I talk about leaving Seattle to go somewhere. Except both of our extended families are mostly here, we have extensive social networks, our kids are deeply integrated, and we got major homesickness when we moved from an island on one side of the city to a suburb on the other. I'd love to go spend a year teaching software engineering in Costa Rica or New Zealand. Settling permanently? I dunno. I've ripped u…
Meanwhile here I am debating about doubling down on Seattle with cheap real estate - or Florida. You should go out and travel! I'm planning on doing so because a home purchase is not overnight - and even then I could never really settle down somewhere. The world is accepting remote work - take the opportunity and worse comes to worse you have a family in the area.
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What places?
Most of the country really - Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Goldcoast, Sunshine Coast, Cairns