Ask HN: Digital nomads, where's the best place in the world to work from?

> Seriously, remote-hostile places (expensive, terrible network, dangerous) are pretty easy to identify, and they are much fewer than remote-friendly places.

What's an example? I can think of dangerous countries, but how would you find out about a terrible network?

Roam was amazing. I stayed at the Tokyo location for a few months in 2018. I was so inspired by my time at Roam that I've spent the last few years trying to figure out how to start up a similar concept and I just raised about a million and a quarter dollars to do a prototype for a first location.

I'm in the process of doing user interviews to learn about what people would want out of a similar space. Feel free to email me if anyone has experience living at a Roam or similar environment and would be open to doing a user research interview.

Email is in my profile

One thing I've figured out about coliving, it really has no specific meaning. Coliving can be anything from renting an airbnb with people you meet on face book, to essentially hostels with coworking spaces, to custom built accomodations in everything from urban environments to farms and across the entire price spectrum.

My guess is that most people could find some variation of it that they would love and some variation of it they would hate. Some of my best and worst travel experiences have been at coliving spaces.

As mentioned in a different post, I'm in the process of trying to develop a space based on figuring out what I liked and didn't like over years of traveling.

The Republic of Georgia has a fantastic digital nomad program and is a wonderful place to work from. The value is phenomenal.

I spent a good year trying to develop a website to answer this question and collect responses from people who'd done just this to try to aggregate their qualitative and quantitative experiences, before ultimately realizing this is something where you can sort of point out some of the obvious trade-offs but the value system and preferences of the individuals vary so much that unfortunately the only way to really determine it is for the person in question to go live there. And so I stopped working on the site and just got a one way ticket and spent a year remote working.

Before realizing that for me at that stage in my life the best place for me ironically was the country where I started, just in a bigger city with a good metro system.

If you wanna determine this you'd be best off constructing a matrix of priority systems (weather, cost of living, language, broad cultural region a la northern european, southern european/latin, east asian, latin american, etc), nature in the area, etc) and make a tool for an individual to rank their priorities in terms of categories/factors, then rank the options _within_ each of those categories/factors, and then try to score the results for them. But even then, people often don't know what they want or care about until they've experienced a variety of places.