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Are you me? Also in NYC and also dream of a quiet place in Montana. My team has actually had discussions about Montana specifically. What is it about Montana?
NYers flooding MT would be worse than OHians flooding NYC.
This stood out: > So why do I hate to admit this? > Because I love how the internet has made it possible for anyone to get successful, anywhere. I love the idea of living in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by nature, yet being connected to the world. > But still, when I look at the facts, it’s impossible to deny. Living in the big city, and being where everything is happening, will help your career the most. Being…
Are you me? Also in NYC and also dream of a quiet place in Montana. My team has actually had discussions about Montana specifically. What is it about Montana?
> wrote Apple Writer alone in a small cottage he built himself atop a hill in the woods of Oregon ..
> "(Nashville, Paris, Seoul, or Tokyo only count if you’re limiting yourself to those markets.)" LOL, as if Nashville is even vaguely comparable to the other three?
This stood out: > So why do I hate to admit this? > Because I love how the internet has made it possible for anyone to get successful, anywhere. I love the idea of living in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by nature, yet being connected to the world. > But still, when I look at the facts, it’s impossible to deny. Living in the big city, and being where everything is happening, will help your career the most. Being…
> Ideally I think I'd want a remote cabin in Montana with a high speed internet connection That's a fantasy unless you consider 3mbps DSL to be 'high speed'. And that's not even remote, that's often the highest speed available not even an hour outside of many major US cities out west.
For mobile dev it seems fine most of the time.
You'd think it creates a competitive environment where the best talent rises to the top but this is not the case.
What I've found instead is that the environment is competitive to the point that everyone is focused on politics and social manipulation; for example trying to claim credit for other peoples' work to get promoted or making friends with the founders. Top level managers are not capable of identifying talent and seeing though all the political BS; they fall for it over and over again but it doesn't matter because they're friends with millionaire investors so they can keep raising money even after their company fails.
It feels like behind every powerful person in a position of power, there is either a rich friend or a rich daddy.
That's why I'm into blockchain now, I'm tired of this nepotism. I want to participate in creating a new industry in which human nature can be factored out as much as possible.
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I’m in western rural oregon, live on acreage in the woods. Also have 1gbps symmetric unmetered static ip’d internet. What has me wanting to move away is the insane politics in salem, caused by too many people in Portland outnumbering the rest of the state.
Where in Western rural Oregon has this? I figured most people in the rural parts were still relying on satelite internet like they were when I lived there. Maybe cable internet in some of the developed suburbs.
This stood out: > So why do I hate to admit this? > Because I love how the internet has made it possible for anyone to get successful, anywhere. I love the idea of living in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by nature, yet being connected to the world. > But still, when I look at the facts, it’s impossible to deny. Living in the big city, and being where everything is happening, will help your career the most. Being…
I think in terms of learning it's true up to a point. I don't think it makes sense to move to a big city for financial reasons though. You'd think it creates a competitive environment where the best talent rises to the top but this is not the case. What I've found instead is that the environment is competitive to the point that everyone is focused on politics and social manipulation; for example trying to claim credi…
Also, the issues you mention (being friends with millionaire investors, etc) might be very specific to Silicon Valley / San Francisco, and less about other "alpha" places?
Will it help your happiness? Will your goals and career benefit humanity one iota?