this shit is gold, please keep anwering! Please include income, rent and possibility of dev jobs, english speaking etc etc
Ask HN: What's the best place in Europe to live and work cheaply?
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#22You can live in the south of Spain for very little... assuming you don't want to live in big cities of course
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#23define cheap, but: Warsaw (I may be obviously biased). Berlin. beautiful Praha (no idea how the tech market looks like there though).
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#24Try Lithuania.
Rent is about 180-400 EU/mo. Weather is good, not too hot, not too cold. Sun/rain ratio is nice. Cities is not too big, so during season bicycling is preferable. Also public transport is ok. Food for 2 person family is about 150 EU/mo. Streets is safe for foreigners.
And Internet is super fast and super cheap here.
And there is nice and informative video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPO4tbV4UHk
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#25Porto, Portugal: It has a river, sea and beaches, lots of history, nice weather, great food, nice people and it's inexpensive. It also has Ryan Air, which means that you can visit other parts of Europe cheaply ( If you like a little bigger city then Lisbon, Portugal is also an option.
What's the rent for a 1BR apartment in a nice part of town?
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#26I live in the UK and we use Pounds Sterling. When I travel to any country using the Euro prices are always relatively higher so I would recommend against a country using the Euro. I found this list showing Euro/Non-euro countries: http://www.aph.com/news/knowbeforeyougo/euro_countries.shtml
Well, not always . Estonia for exemple is really cheap, at least compared to France, Germany etc
Thanks that's important to point out. My experiences were only in Ireland, France, Belgium and Austria. As someone living in the north of Ireland using Sterling I experience the price difference often every time I travel south and the jumps aren't insignificant.
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#27Montenegro is a quite nice place for a freelancer, beaches/good weather/very cheap prices and rent
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#28From someone who has a strong culture & tech ecosystem balance bias:
- Berlin: It's the perfect combination of cheap living costs and OKish (growing) tech community
- As mentioned pretty much everything from Paris to Kiev gets really dark & cold in winter, and not in a NY/Chicago cool way.
- More and more people (especially British) move to Spain, mostly Barcelona. Not as good in terms of startup community as Berlin, but at least equally cheap & decent regarding arts.
Personal bottom line if you want to spend the whole year in Europe: Barcelona in Winter, Berlin in summer, and using LCC fares to get to London for interesting meetups etc.
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#29Cardiff, Wales. Not only a great place to live but also has a vibrant and growing digital community:
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#30We picked France's Charente Maritime (http://goo.gl/maps/rIFK6) to bootstrap and do remote freelancing: rural, the sea is nearby, great food/wine/cheese, weather is warm (but not overly hot in the summer). You can find houses around 600€/mo, we bought our 150k€ including swimming-pool.