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Re: Ask HN: Where do you live?

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Post by furyg3 »

vanschelven wrote: post #37
beeker wrote: post #3

Utrecht, the Netherlands.

I thought I was the only one in the Netherlands reading HN. Has there ever been an attempt to meet up and hack?

Amsterdam here. I'd be interested in a meetup, but I just organized a meetup (non-HN) that went pretty horribly by most standards (people pledging to come and then bailing).

But what the heck...

Re: Ask HN: Where do you live?

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Post by electromagnetic »

jacquesm wrote: post #96
hajrice wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Toronto. Cool. I've always thought how it is to live there?

That depends very much on the season. I've lived in Toronto for 2 1/2 years, winters are doable but there are a few days when the cold is just unimaginable (until you move to Northern Ontario that is), summers are pretty hot. Traditionally the summers are when the garbage collectors go on strike... Other than that it's a great city to live in, for the most part nice people, great and affordable food, office space is…

The garbage strike was nice this year, you could see the dumps from just about every train going through the city. I'm glad I live outside of Toronto where our garbage collectors have the common decency to actually do their jobs through the summer, I'm fine with striking in the winter when the garbage will freeze though.

The whole GTA is a nice area, it goes from purely rural to purely urban in an area small enough to travel for everything.

The weather can be great, right now its being torturous. Lots of thunderstorms, rain and with humidity every temperature is +10 in the shade. God forbid you work outside in the sun, then it feels like +20. I'm amazed people don't just drop dead from the heat, but then I grew up in Northern England where temperatures (with humidity) rarely break 20C in the summer.

Winter is much more tolerable than summer, but that's because it's easier to wear 3 layers of clothes than it is to wear -2 layers of clothes. Personally I enjoy all year more than I did back in the UK, but that's probably because there is actually seasons here and not the 2 weeks of winter and 2 weeks of summer of my childhood.

Re: Ask HN: Where do you live?

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Post by stefano »

davidw wrote: post #192
stefano wrote: post #175

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Near Bassano del Grappa and currently studying at the University of Padova.

Cool - nice area: the very first time I came to Italy, I stayed in Romano d'Ezzelino. You have no contact information, so it's impossible for me to contact you about a spritz or otherwise saying 'hi'.

What a coincidence. I live exactly in Romano. I'll be back to university in october. If you'd like to go out for a spritz in that period, you may contact me: stefano.dissegna [at] gmail.
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