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Re: Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?

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Post by mynegation »

lefrenchy wrote: post #27
tayo42 wrote: post #18

Hawaii if flying didn't feel risky(virus) and logistics were easier. The 2 week quarantine makes a hard move harder. I'm not sure I actually want to be in a hotel. I am "settling" lol for Santa Cruz. I really thought I wanted to live in so cal for awhile too but watching the reactions to blm and covid makes me second guess that. Actually made me really unsure where I might want to live. Also thought about Florida in…

Isn’t Florida, in most places, worse than SoCal in terms of response to BLM and Covid?

Your definition of “worse” may be other peoples’ definition of “better”.

Re: Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?

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Post by holidayacct »

You would have to be insane to move because you've recently been given remote work privileges, especially in the middle of a recession caused by an ongoing pandemic.

Companies provide remote work options all the time and once you move they ask you to come back into the office out of the blue thenlay remote workers off if they cant come back into the office.

The other thing you need to keep in mind is a lot of the places you want to live have people who don't want you living there. If they find out you work remote and don't need anyone they will start screwing around with your life.

If you move and work remote be extremely careful, dont assume you're welcome anywhere in the countrh a lot of places are filled with backwards luddites who hate anyone in STEM fields. Yes, this is a real thing.

Re: Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?

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Post by plessthanpt05 »

Bedon292 wrote: post #20

If it were just me and I could go anywhere: In US, I would get somewhere with a lot of land. Montana, ND, Wyoming, something like that. Outside US, Probably Norway for a while. Would also love to try out New Zeland or SE Asia.

Montana, ND and Wyoming are pretty seriously different than Norway or New Zealand.

Re: Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?

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Post by throwaway93386 »

Chattanooga most likely. My company is doing 85% base salary with no adjustment to RSUs. Tennessee is a great place to save money due to 1) no state income tax, 2) no capital gains taxes, and 3) low cost of living. I estimate I’ll be able to save ~$100k more per year than I currently am in the Bay Area. Plus Chattanooga is known for having some of the fastest internet in the country, rolled out by the city a few years ago. Signal Mountain has great schools for when my kids are older, and it doesn’t hurt that it’s a naturally beautiful place as well (https://i.pinimg.com/originals/66/c2/24/66c22405229f125fea23...).

I’d really like to move to Asheville or Charleston, but the taxes make it a bit too much of a premium over Chattanooga.

Re: Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?

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Post by [deleted] »

plessthanpt05 wrote: post #33
Bedon292 wrote: post #20

If it were just me and I could go anywhere: In US, I would get somewhere with a lot of land. Montana, ND, Wyoming, something like that. Outside US, Probably Norway for a while. Would also love to try out New Zeland or SE Asia.

Montana, ND and Wyoming are pretty seriously different than Norway or New Zealand.

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Re: Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?

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Post by kleinsch »

Company offered permanent remote work, thought through career trade offs and whether we wanted to stay in the Bay Area forever.

Picked suburbs between Denver and Boulder. Good tech jobs, similar sunshine and outdoor activities as the Bay Area (but with snow also! we’ll see how that goes), affordable housing and better COL.

Re: Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?

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Post by bravoetch »

holidayacct wrote: post #32

You would have to be insane to move because you've recently been given remote work privileges, especially in the middle of a recession caused by an ongoing pandemic. Companies provide remote work options all the time and once you move they ask you to come back into the office out of the blue thenlay remote workers off if they cant come back into the office. The other thing you need to keep in mind is a lot of the pla…

Please, stay right where you are.

Re: Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?

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Post by mortonpe »

tomcam wrote: post #24
mnm1 wrote: post #13

WA. No state tax. Nice nature. Not completely overrun with corona like most of the other no tax states. Post pandemic, somewhere in Western Europe hopefully. Some place that actually cares about its residents unlike this shithole country that's doing everything in its power to ensure the most corona cases and deaths possible.

Serious question. Do you think they care about the hundreds of businesses, many LGBT owned, that were closed, destroyed, or extorted by the peaceful protestors of CHAZ/CHOP? About citizens who slog through miles of filth, shit on the sidewalks, and needles on the ground?

As someone who went to the CHOP multiple times through out the protests, I don’t agree with your characterization. My personal experience was not that of yours. It _was_ uncomfortable, but nobody makes change by staying in their comfort zone.

As for the miles of filth and needles. I’ve seen too. I’ve seen it in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, the list goes on. When you have folks being displaced as rents and property prices increase, so goes the middle and lower income folks. Small cities naturally don’t have challenges at the same scale as large cities.

Complaining does not help-What are the solutions to these problems? I don’t know, but I am all ears.

Re: Ask HN: Newly Remote Workers – Where Are You Moving?

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holidayacct wrote: post #32

You would have to be insane to move because you've recently been given remote work privileges, especially in the middle of a recession caused by an ongoing pandemic. Companies provide remote work options all the time and once you move they ask you to come back into the office out of the blue thenlay remote workers off if they cant come back into the office. The other thing you need to keep in mind is a lot of the pla…

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