Ask HN: What's your ideal city in a 100% remote world?

Post by blocked_again » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 8:42 AM UTC

crossroadsguy wrote: post #115

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…

Post by meh2frdf » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 8:55 AM UTC

crossroadsguy wrote: post #107

jstx1 wrote: post #7

London 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.

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 9:02 AM UTC

crossroadsguy wrote: post #172

blocked_again wrote: post #171

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You described a lot of "decent" things. Question is about your ideal city. Not a decent city to live in.

My ideal city would be where I’d want to live; unless question was also about fictional, made up places. For example I had job offers from Amsterdam and London and they have much better but I didn’t want to live there. So they aren’t my ideal cities.

Post by justfortruth » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 9:21 AM UTC

crossroadsguy wrote: post #174

justfortruth wrote: post #158

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5) Dating Scene People are mostly conservative here. Although Dating Scene exists, it's very very less(nil to most people). You will be disappointed. 6) Commutation Huge amount of Vehicles, many not following rules, many hurrying to overtake, to get inserted into the road, lot of honking, and time-eating traffic congestion. It's not at all a good experience and will suck energy outta you. 7) Power cuts Power cut is v…

I think it was about which city and country one would want to live in, given the opportunity of always remote. And for me that’s India and in India that’s Bangalore. All these points you’ve gone on about - compared to where? Dating scene worse than Chennai? Ahmedabad? AQI worse than Delhi? Water and sanitation worse than Kolkata? I mean I didn’t get your rebuttal like response :)

Post by crossroadsguy » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 9:42 AM UTC

justfortruth wrote: post #177

crossroadsguy wrote: post #174

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I think it was about which city and country one would want to live in, given the opportunity of always remote. And for me that’s India and in India that’s Bangalore. All these points you’ve gone on about - compared to where? Dating scene worse than Chennai? Ahmedabad? AQI worse than Delhi? Water and sanitation worse than Kolkata? I mean I didn’t get your rebuttal like response :)

Yeah, I agree that Bengaluru is Best city when it comes to India(the only country i have lived in) You are comparing Bangalore to other cities which i didn't intend to(given i have never lived in other places tbh). For me, Question was about Ideal Place to live and Bangalore is not ideal place according to me. Maybe my response is not rebuttal but the fact that Bangalore is not ideal place.