Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely

Post by thehappypm » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 6:54 PM UTC

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1-2 hours away from a major city is actually kind of a sweet spot, IMO. Big cities have things like major hospitals and major employers, they have airports, they have baseball stadiums. They've also got social networks -- it's much easier to make friends in a place with 100,000 people your age than 50. Now, escaping to the undeveloped areas is cheap, and many of them have access to things like beautiful mountains or…

You’re right that being close to amenities is good, but you’re building up a false dichotomy between 1-2 hours from the office[0] and “move to the mountains”. You’re ignoring option C “move close to a smaller city”. Often 1-2 hours from the kinds of cities where major offices are located provide an inferior quality of life compared to a smaller city. 1-2 hours away from my old office is basically Burbank, which is st…

Post by closeparen » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 7:39 PM UTC

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I can think about anything when I drive a car. Walking exercises your muscles, so it's preferable way of transportation because of health, but not because of thinking, IMO.

> I can think about anything when I drive a car. The rest of the world would prefer you to think about driving a car when you drive a car. When you're walking, OTOH, thinking about anything is OK. (The only person you'll kill by doing that unthinkingly is you.) God, Americans are weird.

Post by CRConrad » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 8:15 PM UTC

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I replied back to one of these and explained that due to their anti-union actions, and they way they treat employees, I would never be interested in working there, no matter the salary. I thankfully have never received any more of their spam.

To be fair, very few tech companies would hire someone who starts off by expressing their support for unionization. It's certainly a good "unsubscribe" tactic. For example, if you want to get rid of unwanted Linkedin outreach, just put into your title "Go unions!"

Post by ashtonkem » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 8:35 PM UTC

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You’re right that being close to amenities is good, but you’re building up a false dichotomy between 1-2 hours from the office[0] and “move to the mountains”. You’re ignoring option C “move close to a smaller city”. Often 1-2 hours from the kinds of cities where major offices are located provide an inferior quality of life compared to a smaller city. 1-2 hours away from my old office is basically Burbank, which is st…

I think a problem with the Boise-sized metro is that it's super hit-or-miss. Places like Boise or Salt Lake City are awesome, but I think those are kind of the outliers. Many smaller, isolated cities struggle with being desirable places to live. Small cities in places like upstate New York, the Deep South, far Northern California, or Eastern Washington are tough to get young people to move to so they often have probl…

Post by mathverse » Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 8:46 PM UTC

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American programmers are mercenaries, capitalist minded workers, that have access to a digital hive mind that not many other professions can fully access. We hold a lot more power than I think we realize. Europeans work to live. Americas live to work.

Probably worth mentioning that you aren’t safe if you hide out in some low-paying European job. Sooner or later the US/Chinese platform companies are going to come and eat your boss’ lunch So you may as well come over and get a share of the spoils