Probably Dallas/Austin... or Zurich.
Ask HN: What's your ideal city in a 100% remote world?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your ideal city in a 100% remote world?
#102If I can work from anywhere in the world, why in all flying hells would I work from a city?
I've been nomadic living in both rural and urban areas. Because cities have events, people to meet, food to eat. There's a lot of conveniences. For rural, I've lived in a town where there was only one restaurant, and it was a Mexican place that closed at 4PM. One small grocery store during height of the pandemic, no masks. I've driven 3 hours to make a grocery run to an Asian grocery store and get boba tea. In the US…
Sounds like you are comparing the extremes there! There are city suburbs too which sometimes can feel like you are not near a city at all but you have most of what you need. There are also small cities.
Re: Ask HN: What's your ideal city in a 100% remote world?
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope that's a joke because sitting in front of a screen isolated at home isn't a replacement for experiencing a play live. I've played enough online chess during the pandemic for a lifetime, I want to sit in a club with a beer and my friends over a physical board having face-to-face conversations, there's no online replacement for that. And in a city that is always only 15 minutes away by foot and I wouldn't trade…
That's why there are different kinds of people in the world. I wager there are lots of people like me on this site. If warm food regularly appeared at my door, I'd be happy never leaving my room and interacting with the world exclusively using my computer. I think it's useful to be aware that not everyone is a social butterfly who demands constant IRL interaction!
Haha, to be fair friend, you seemed fairly surprised the original poster would want to see a play or play chess in person ;-)
Re: Ask HN: What's your ideal city in a 100% remote world?
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sarcastic 'best'? The 'locals' are extremely unfriendly, actively try to sabotage new businesses, bring in foreign workers and lock them into work/living arrangements to take advantage of them, heck (attempt to) take advantage of all workers, etc... But they claim to not be whatever 'ism' isn't politically popular.
I feel like the parent wasn't referring to specifically your situation, but rather centre-left people rather than very-left people
Ah. Fair enough. These people are more along the lines of: "I'm not racist, I have black employees". "I'm not a homophobe, we have a rainbow sidewalk". Meanwhile they exploit and are shitty to everyone not in their group. And all the "locals" are conveniently white while the visible minority transplants never have "local" status.
Re: Ask HN: What's your ideal city in a 100% remote world?
#105I’ll put on in for NYC.
Just love it here.
Big beautiful sky line
Fair amount of greenspace including parks, rivers, forests, and beaches
Even more greenspace easily accessible with a bike or car or by train
Bus trips to Vermont for snowboarding all winter (not as great as West coast, but still decent)
Antenna gets me TV for free!
Tons and tons and tons of cultures and restaurants and plays and movies and clubs and music
Close to family (for me!)
Lots of great people watching
Getting more and more bike friendly by the day
24 hour subways, restaurants, supermarkets
## Cons
Expensive
Crowded
Loud
It ain’t for everyone, but I love it here, no reason to leave.
Re: Ask HN: What's your ideal city in a 100% remote world?
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Madison Santa Fe Burlington
I've been putting together a list of walkable cities to potentially move to, and Madison and Burlington are on the list. Most of America is a 1/10, they're 6/10s, which isn't bad. All ranked by my totally arbitrary scale. But what I'm looking for is a 9+/10. Aspen, Colorado is a good example, but I would never be able to buy a house there as they start at $8 mil.
Lies! Aspen has houses at 4 million already. :D
Re: Ask HN: What's your ideal city in a 100% remote world?
#107London is great. So are many other large and diverse multinational cities. Many of them also happen to be great for in-office tech job opportunities.
Isn’t weather too gloomy? It’s very difficult for people who can’t thrive in non-sunny often weather.
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#108Has anyone heard Chattanooga TN is cool?
Heck yeah. Beautiful area nestled in the Smokey mountains, first major city in the U.S. to get gigabit internet, and access to both Nashville and Atlanta with a short drive without needing to live in the awful traffic.
Re: Ask HN: What's your ideal city in a 100% remote world?
#109Chicago. Friendly people , cheap housing, great public transportation. Tons of things to do. No visa issues, it's much easier to move cities they countries.
I love Chicago, but where are you finding cheap housing? Genuinely interested what areas.
Not the parent commenter, but I find Chicago rents cheap relative to the SF Bay Area.
Re: Ask HN: What's your ideal city in a 100% remote world?
#110Probably Dallas/Austin... or Zurich.
Not sure how Dallas fits in there.