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Re: Move to the Big City (2018)

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Post by tootie » Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 6:30 PM UTC

codq wrote: post #60

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It's interesting. I never really wanted to live in NYC until I ended up here and now after 20 years I am absolutely never going for leave. I'm raising my kids here. Especially since it means I never have to drive.

I moved NYC recently from the Bay Area after my wife received a job offer she, and we, couldn’t refuse. Living in the city is great, but I’ve had a hard time making connections, and have had more trouble finding work than I ever expected. What are the secrets to building connections out here?

Pretty much all my friends are work colleagues or parents of other kids. Also, my wife's co-workers. IDK what your wife does but maybe have her invite you to meet her team.

There's also every kind of social community imaginable here. You can attend tech meetups if that's your thing. Take a drawing class, find a D&D group, volunteer at a community garden, host orgies. Sky's the limit.

Re: Move to the Big City (2018)

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Post by notadoc » Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 7:14 PM UTC

wsc981 wrote: post #34

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> 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.

3 Mbps should be plenty for many jobs I think? I work remotely with a 3 Mbps connection and it's fine for me. For mobile dev it seems fine most of the time.

Depends on the job, but I would think for most people on HN 3mbps would be considered painfully slow, which it is.

But even for the less technically apt, consider other common tasks that require speedy broadband. Something like restoring a 100GB iCloud backup to a new iPhone on a 3mbps connection would take over 3 days, assuming the connection (or your patience) could hold that long.

And you certainly won't be streaming your favorite shows in 4k.

Re: Move to the Big City (2018)

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Post by bradlys » Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 9:36 PM UTC

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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.

There are multiple areas with telephone co-ops that have dropped fiber in the ground. For instance molalla, stayton, scio all have fiber networks.

Oh, I see. Different version of rural then. Those are far less remote areas than I was imagining.

Re: Move to the Big City (2018)

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Post by yepthatsreality » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 1:16 AM UTC

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NYers flooding MT would be worse than OHians flooding NYC.

I'm willing to bet you wouldn't refer to other groups as "flooding" NYC. Why do New Yorkers find it acceptable to say such things about Midwesterners?

> I'm willing to bet you wouldn't refer to other groups as "flooding" NYC.

Actually I would. In fact NYC has a great history of groups flooding into each other. Before I dive more into that though...there seems to be an airplane overhead?

Re: Move to the Big City (2018)

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Post by remarkEon » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 3:34 AM UTC

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The Midwest is pretty culturally distant from NYC, or at least it can be. There’s a long list of things that are different, and a shorter one of things that are similar. Source: Am Midwestern, lived in NYC once upon a time

More so than Aleppo or Mogadishu? I think not. Sounds like a cop out to me.

Mogadishu is probably a bad example because there are actually an enormous amount of Somali immigrants in the Midwest. But I was really restricting my comment to intra-US comparisons.

Re: Move to the Big City (2018)

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Post by slimed » Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 9:50 PM UTC

remarkEon wrote: post #75

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More so than Aleppo or Mogadishu? I think not. Sounds like a cop out to me.

Mogadishu is probably a bad example because there are actually an enormous amount of Somali immigrants in the Midwest. But I was really restricting my comment to intra-US comparisons.

You're missing my point. My point is that those places are even more culturally distant from NYC but no one ever tells them to "go back where you came from".

Btw, also a Midwesterner. Recently left NYC. Finally took the advice of the locals.

Re: Move to the Big City (2018)

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Post by mgarfias » Sun, Dec 29, 2019, 5:57 AM UTC

bradlys wrote: post #73

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There are multiple areas with telephone co-ops that have dropped fiber in the ground. For instance molalla, stayton, scio all have fiber networks.

Oh, I see. Different version of rural then. Those are far less remote areas than I was imagining.

Thats why i said "western" rural. Although John Day has some fiber out there, and just got the feds or someone to kick down 6M to build out more.

Re: Move to the Big City (2018)

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Post by octokatt » Sun, Dec 29, 2019, 7:03 PM UTC

Does anyone else read these on impulse, then remember they don't want to make it big?

I want to make it to Comfortable, by working on interesting but non-stressful problems, reach FI at forty, then enjoy my family and work at hobby research.

Am I alone here?