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Same place where I am - Bangalore. Weather is the best - warm but not hot, cool but not cold. No extremes. People from every state of India. So great food. Culturally very diverse and really a melting pot. Good sports/fitness scene and culture. Safe. Locals are mostly fine with outsiders. In fact that’s the economy here other than IT. English (more) and Hindi (less) are the connecting tongues. Local language is not f…
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Off topic but [maybe] relevant... > Somewhere in the middle of nowhere. A part of me too desires this. For a software engineer, what you need most is good network connectivity, which is now possible in many places. The other part of me is convinced that would not be a good move in the long run. If I move away from the city, my kids' education will suffer, my mother (who also lives with me) will lose the social connec…
> It would be nice to have the best of both worlds. That was supposed to be the idea behind suburbs, but a lot of people think of them as the worst of both worlds now. Personally I think it's pretty nice to live 30 minutes outside a city but still have enough property for trees and open space, though.
Still remote but they're trying to get more people to come back to the office which is really making me rethink this job...
"Have you noticed their stuff is sh-t and your sh-t is stuff?" -- George Carlin on Stuff
Same place where I am - Bangalore. Weather is the best - warm but not hot, cool but not cold. No extremes. People from every state of India. So great food. Culturally very diverse and really a melting pot. Good sports/fitness scene and culture. Safe. Locals are mostly fine with outsiders. In fact that’s the economy here other than IT. English (more) and Hindi (less) are the connecting tongues. Local language is not f…
What about the air quality? Also is the tap water drinkable?
Tap water , not drinkable as is. Most houses I've seen have a water filter. We personally used to use one of these[0]
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere. I currently live in a small town in the mountains. Love the mountain aspect of it. The townspeople are progressive in some ways (they try to be 'woke'), but extremely regressive when it comes to development (NIMBYism on steroids). Housing is a major problem, all the restaurants are shit, nothing gets built pretty much ever, most of the tax burden is on the few businesses there are,…
I find that people approaching woke but not “there” yet are the best.
They're giant diversions I think that distort our ability to just see things for what they are.
It's pretty interesting how people can be many things at the same time, so these kinds of triggering labels - and the narratives that support them in the press don't help one bit.
The recent articles by various media outlets outlining the results of the Virginia election were about 80% playing into narratives of 'each side' further ignoring the 20% of simple truths that I think were the real underlying issues. Those 'truths' just don't line up nicely with the narratives.
This problem has metastasized in the US (and rolled over into Canada) in the last 5 years, which is why 0 'aspirational locations' from the US are on my list, at least for another 5 years as things hopefully calm down.
Same place where I am - Bangalore. Weather is the best - warm but not hot, cool but not cold. No extremes. People from every state of India. So great food. Culturally very diverse and really a melting pot. Good sports/fitness scene and culture. Safe. Locals are mostly fine with outsiders. In fact that’s the economy here other than IT. English (more) and Hindi (less) are the connecting tongues. Local language is not f…
What about the air quality? Also is the tap water drinkable?
I said India, didn't I? :)
Anyway, no. I don't think drinkable tap water is a developing or underdeveloped world phenomena. But I may be wrong.
> What about the air quality?
Again, it depends on which country you are comparing it with. Among Indian cities - pretty good. And I don't mean comparing with Delhi - that'd be an unfair comparison.
My criteria... good luck--many conflict with each other, and I don't really think this unicorn town exists. English speaking Very low population density (rural-er is better) Inexpensive, reliable high speed internet for work Low tax burden (state income tax + sales tax + property tax) Affordable land + housing Unpolluted air and water Good schools and universities Politically stable Culturally moderate: not overly li…
Not perfect but worth knowing about.
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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.
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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.
I do prefer the extremes, haha. Either super rural Utah, or New Orleans/ Mexico City.
Budapest, with a side spot in Spain, and my ski pass in the Alps