Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Poll: Where are you currently living?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

141–150 of 317 posts

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

#141

Post by seanmcdirmid »

Widdershin wrote: post #4
wikiburner wrote: post #2

Other: Antarctica? I.S.S.? Sealand? :) Edit: Uh oh, New Zealand isn't covered.

I'm from New Zealand, I just picked South East Asia, because that's where our game servers are. Would've appreciated an Oceanic option, OP. Edit: Nevermind, it's Australia and New Zealand now. You can just replace that with Australasia, for the record.

Wouldn't Australasia include New Guinea also?

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

#142

Post by seabrookmx »

flexie wrote: post #128
drpgq wrote: post #112

Interesting that the ratio of Americans to Canadians is less than their respective populations.

Yes, I thought the same, especially interesting because I would assume that many Canadian techies moved to Seattle or the valley. Also interesting that there are soon as many HN members outside the US as within (if this survey reflects the truth).

I don't think as many Canadians are moving to the states as they used to. The tech sector in Canada is doing quite well, and many of the American companies that people used to move down south for have offices up here (EA Vancouver, for example). Even in Victoria, tech is the number one industry, and the talent pool is good enough to support serious players in industry, locally or foreign owned.

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

#144

Post by derleth »

zxcvbnmkj wrote: post #119
seldo wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, just calling it "central america" would have helped.

Central America is everything from Guatemala to Panama and doesn't include Mexico.

Interestingly, the UN includes Mexico in Central America, but it seems to be one of the few official organizations to do so:

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

#145

Post by shirkey »

einhverfr wrote: post #127
fidz wrote: post #89

Indonesia, anyone?

I am living in Indonesia at the moment (West Jakarta, probably not far from you). Might be worth those of us in the area who follow HN to do a meetup of some sort? (My email is chris.travers@gmail.com)

Hey Chris, I'm also from US and in the Jakarta area -- sounds like there's a larger community here than I had imagined. I'll drop you an email.

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

#146

Post by zuccs »

dwd wrote: post #87
brendonjohn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Australasia is a region of Oceania http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oceanias_Regions.png

What is interesting is that New Zealand is a "State" according to the Australian Constitution. http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practic...

Haha. We claim anything good New Zealand ever does anyway. Pharlap, etc.

Re: Poll: Where are you currently living?

#147

Post by icebraining »

Systemic33 wrote: post #11
mseepgood wrote: post #6

I always thought that Scandinavia was part of Western Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Europe#Population_of_We...

It is, but I try to divide culturally, and Scandinavia is quite a different bunch from rest of europe. (I'm Danish myself and have lived in Sweden for six years aswell) This is also why I decided to add southern europe, since they are also quite different from say Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, etc.

Unfortunately, it led me to vote for both options, since I only saw the Southern option after having voted for Western (and after all, I'm in the most western European country). Well, I suppose it's not exactly a scientific study either.
Post reply on HN