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

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Post by city41 »

I just moved to a small town in Michigan from San Jose this week.

I love the lack of traffic, my giant backyard and deck, how completely quiet and pitch black it is at night and that I have yet to meet a software developer. Nothing against devs, but getting out of the tech bubble is nice.

I can go to Detroit, Chicago, the Great Lakes and many other places if I need a change of pace.

Of course it’s only been a few days at this point, but very optimistic. We lived in San Jose for 5 years and it just was not for us despite trying really hard to learn to like it.

I am still working for the same company.

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Post by gver10 »

vegancap wrote: post #42

Arctic Norway, it's absolutely stunning, deeply peaceful. I went before lock-down on my own, stayed in an airbnb in the middle of no where and I never felt better.

You'll feel different after a winter with barely any sunlight. Norway is great for vacation, but I can't recommend it's dark winters.

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Post by SNosTrAnDbLe »

My village in Kerala, India. I got a house and I have a small patch of land which is very fertile and plenty of water (there are places with water scarcity). I get to watch the monsoon rains.

The beach is like a couple of miles away. The mountains are also quite close and its very beautiful and its very much untouched nature. It's also very hot and humid but I am fine with that.

Also, they get fiber so the internet is faster than where I live in the Bay Area.

The only problem was that there were no jobs there but with the Facebook announcement, that hopefully will change for the better.

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

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Post by BlackVanilla »

badtuple wrote: post #54

Either Seattle or stay in Portland. I'm happily employed in Portland and not looking to change gigs, but if my current job went 100% remote I'd probably move to Seattle. I love the PNW, and Portland's just a bit too small of a city for me. I did the nomad thing for a couple years and loved it, but I sort of got it out of my system. The lifestyle can be lonely. And at this point in my life I'd rather cultivate a life…

Did you do the nomad thing in the PNW?

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Post by mraudiobook_com »

azuriten wrote: post #75

I'd probably go back to Japan; possibly Fukuoka, Hokkaido or somewhere relatively close from Greater Tokyo, possibly the Shonan area (Kamakura/Zushi). One of the reasons I came back to the UK was that work/life balance seems to be a bit more of the norm then it is in Japan. The nature over in Japan is really something else, though. Miss it almost everyday.

I'm with you. If you've got that kind of yen Tokyo is as good as it gets. Working for Japanese as a westerner was and would be no fun, but other than that they've got life figured out.

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Post by timthorn »

neoplatonian wrote: post #4

I live in Cambridge and its perfect for my needs, for now. Small university town, everything at bikeable distance, cosmopolitan: if I want to meet a person from any country or experience their cuisine, eveything is available here. London is just an hour away by train. And companies like Microsoft, Apple and IBM have their offices here. The only problem is that in UK its extremely hard to get a sense of community and…

I found that when I first moved to the area, but it's not too hard to get involved with groups like Makespace, Cambridge Wireless or Cambridge Network, CSAR or the Centre for Computing History to expand your circle.

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Post by jedberg »

I would definitely become a nomad if I were single. I tried to do it when I was single and first starting out in '99, but it was just too hard. The tech just wasn't there yet.

But now? I'd probably stay right here in the Bay Area, only because my wife's family is here. I wouldn't want to take my kids away from their cousins.

Although my wife's brother has been pushing for the entire family to move somewhere cheaper. He keeps pointing out that if we all sold our houses in California we could buy a mega-compound in Oklahoma.

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