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Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by Panther34543 »

Who here is originally from the U.S. but migrated to another country since remote jobs became commonplace?

I've got a great remote job for a U.S. company and about $60k available for a downpayment; I'd love to be able to buy a place abroad (and hopefully obtain residency/citizenship).

Unfortunately, places like Italy or Spain seem to require foreign nationals to have much more initial cash and prevent mortgage loans for more than 50/60% of the purchase price. I can afford a decent mortgage, but I just don't have a lot of liquid cash at the moment.

Has anyone here done anything like that?

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by jarrenae »

101008 wrote: post #10

I hope there is someone who knows how to code in this community to parse the results and do a nice visualization. I have a cousin who knows about computers, if noone knows here how to do it, I can ask him to try. He always helps me with my printer.

I got you. Where does hacker news live? visualized: https://ae.studio/random/where-does-hacker-news-live

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by glandium »

rvense wrote: post #144
phkahler wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> Of course, in 2008, pure investment banks largely failed. Each US state is about the size of a European country, sometimes with similar population. That's one of the things that always comes up in polls of what surprised Europeans about the US when they visited - just how big it is.

It's... still one country, though. And while I understand that Americans are very preoccupied with the difference between California and New Jersey, please understand that it's not that important (or obvious) to the rest of us.

Fun fact: there's a program in Japan that interviews and follows foreigners. One of the first questions is "where do you come from". Most Americans answer with a state name.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by zander312 »

toqy wrote: post #36
lhorie wrote: post #25

Pasting this in dev console will give you a quick and dirty rundown. It sorts locations by points. [...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.trim(), el.nextSibling.textContent.trim()]).sort(([,a], [,b]) => parseInt(b) - parseInt(a)).map(a => a.join(' - ')) As of this post, California is leading, followed by other places w/ large tech hubs (Germany, UK, Canada, NY, Washington)

This is begging for a console.table console.table([...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.trim(), el.nextSibling.textContent.trim()]).sort(([,a], [,b]) => parseInt(b) - parseInt(a)))

this is fricking awesome!! thanks!!

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by kodah »

I've emailed with a lot of folks on this website and it's far cry from Silicon Valley centric.

I would love to hear from someone who complains about "centrism" as to why. This is a pretty new thing I've seen as far as a complaining trend. Across my childhood I was on IRC networks that were either based outside of the US or in gaming communities that were international. I never once sat around wondering about how "centric" any of the communities were, even though many of them completely diverged from how I knew life to be.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by jll29 »

tluyben2 wrote: post #141
qnsi wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im off to a party, see you later HN

I remember vaguely being young and friday nights meaning something different than other nights... Meanwhile I'm (in Portugal) trying to fix a dependent type tutorial that bit rotted.

Don't know about other parts of PT, but Lisbon has too great a night life to spend Friday night debugging :)

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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Post by zhoujianfu »

jarrenae wrote: post #342
101008 wrote: post #10

I hope there is someone who knows how to code in this community to parse the results and do a nice visualization. I have a cousin who knows about computers, if noone knows here how to do it, I can ask him to try. He always helps me with my printer.

I got you. Where does hacker news live? visualized: https://ae.studio/random/where-does-hacker-news-live

Nice!

A lot of Germans!

Gummipuppen!

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