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Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?

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Post by jauer »

Really depends on what phase of life, but right now one of:

   * Most likely: somewhere between Austin and San Antonio TX.
   * Alternate: ~45 minutes southwest of Denver, CO.
   * Wildcard: Minneapolis, MN.
   * If U.S. adopts laws like what Hungary just did WRT LGBT people: Iceland.

Re: Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?

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Post by josemwarrior »

ravenstine wrote: post #177

In an ideal world, I would live in New Zealand, probably, though I've heard many things have changed in the 15 years since I lived there. I work remote and live in Los Angeles, despite all the drawbacks of living in California, because of family, friends, and my overall support network. Moving somewhere else would mean having to start all over again.

Wear sunscreen

https://www.google.es/amp/s/www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle...

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Post by habosa »

Philadelphia

It's one of the five biggest cities in the US but most people routinely look past it.

First of all it's fairly cheap, less than half as expensive as SF even in the nicest parts.

It's got the best restaurant scene of any city I've spent time in (and almost all are free BYO).

It's got a great art scene including a ton of amazing live music. 4 sports teams with passionate fan bases.

It's racially diverse (no racial majority), mostly safe, and has plenty of young professionals.

And if you really need to you can get to NY in only a few hours.

The only reason I'm not there is that the tech scene sucks. If I could be remote I'd be there already.

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Post by bobthepanda »

2019-nCoV wrote: post #180
bobthepanda wrote: post #154

I'd like to try Berlin or Barcelona; as a young LGBT person I've loved these areas when I've visited. Though Barcelona certainly has better weather. The only wrinkle is that I do like my legal weed; going to a store and buying a nicely packaged edible or a preroll is leagues above buying it off the street.

Weed is essentially legal in both cities. In Barcelona through membership. While personal consumption is tolerated in Berlin most places cigarettes are. > going to a store and buying a nicely packaged edible or a preroll is leagues above buying it off the street If you want to fit in in these cities you need to drop this American fixation with commercialisation and bubble-wrapping every experience to make it "comfort…

The focus is not really on the "commercial" part of it but the part where I don't necessarily have to do everything from the flower stage. In a similar vein, I don't think that Berliners and Barcelonians are churning their own butter because there isn't a shop selling butter already made, or knitting every sock they own because nobody sells socks. The US marijuana sector isn't even really heavily commercialized, there are no major regional or national distributors or sellers of weed, but you can buy products made from flower all the same.

The smell from making my own edibles in an apartment would probably not endear me to my neighbors, and sometimes I would rather use an edible than roll a joint.

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Post by t3rabytes »

bluesplayer53 wrote: post #126

Asheville NC. My wife and I moved here in early March just before the shutdown. Beautiful. I pinch myself everyday that I get to live And work (from home) here.

All of my family lives in Brevard and I mountain bike a ton, so I would move there in a heartbeat (I live in Raleigh right now). In fact, I'm already remote (and have been for 4 years), so why haven't I done it?!

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

scandox wrote: post #14

There was a phase of my life where I felt a nomadic existence would be ideal. Later I went through another phase in which I imagined finding the perfect place and establishing an amazing existence there in an environment uniquely suited to my temperament. In the current (perhaps final?) phase I realized that everything I want to do and which is important to me is connected with the place I happen to be.

I've often said to people "There's no such thing as paradise. Everywhere has its issues and problems. What matters is whether you care about those problems or not."

When I lived in Seattle in the 1990s, I cared about the problems I saw/knew about in the PNW. When I lived in Philadelphia for 22 years, I really didn't care about the problems. Seattle felt like paradise. Philadelphia just felt like a place to live.

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