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Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in

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Re: Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in

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Post by sveme »

pieterhg wrote: post #6
skrebbel wrote: post #5

Nice! I have some reservations about some of the data though; f.ex. I have a hard time to believe that SF has only slightly higher costs of living than Berlin.

It really depends, the NomadCost is based on staying there for a month, and not being able to rent long-term. So you'll be staying in private rooms in hostels, low-end hotels and CL/AirBnB apts. Finding a cheap place in East Berlin for a long-term is definitely a viable option. But not if you move around as fast as digital nomads do.

All true, but 90 Euros for a private hostel room strikes me as way too much - a quick search on hostels.com (http://www.hostels.com/berlin/germany?dateFrom=2014-07-31&da...) indicates something like 55,- Euros as the median prize. Mind, that's absolute high season right now.

Have you thought about crowdsourcing the data entry?

Re: Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in

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Post by noeltock »

I like the concept for getting some new ideas, but it needs significantly more information to be useful downstream. Having been nomading around for the past year, there are things that are important to me (accomodation, gym, coworking, good food) that are made easier/harder by various factors (proximity to each other, cost, contract length, quality, etc.). There's no tool for that yet (albeit excellent blog posts, not everything has to be made into an app I guess).

Re: Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in

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Post by dewey »

pieterhg wrote: post #12
dewey wrote: post #9

Small bug: I'm not able to switch the currency, it just shows pounds even though I selected Euro in the dropdown menu at the top ( http://nomadlist.io/?l=eu )

Should be fixed now! I tried to make it static but that failed :)

That was quick. It's working as expected now!

Re: Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in

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Post by cageface »

coppolaemilio wrote: post #3

Chiang Mai? You clearly haven't been there! It's nice for a holiday but not for living.

Thailand has been clamping down on tourist visa abuse recently and getting any kind of proper work permit there is not easy at all. I guess a lot of people just fly under the radar there but it's risky and getting to be increasingly difficult.

Re: Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in

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Post by AVTizzle »

pieterhg wrote: post #4
coppolaemilio wrote: post #3

Chiang Mai? You clearly haven't been there! It's nice for a holiday but not for living.

It's not for everyone, but there's hundreds of digital nomads living there now I think, and I've lived there myself

Agreed. I'm in Ho Chi Minh City now, plugged into an expansive network of location independent entrepreneurs.

Chiang Mai is absolutely one of the most popular destinations for entrepreneurs in our community.

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