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Show HN: The Earth Awaits: Custom Expat Budgets, Worldwide

ph0rque 10y ago
Love the idea and the site! A couple suggestions: * Let me create a user account and save cities * Make cities shareable so I send a link to e.g. my wife for discussion * I don't mind getting emails with packages that fit my budget and my cities, that can be a great revenue generator I just shared it with my brother, and we started talking about taking a month-long vacation to one of the cities, perhaps after coordination with my other siblings and parents. Maybe that can be a long-term feature.
- theearthawaits 10y ago
  Thanks, and thanks for the feedback! There are social sharing links on the bottom-right of the image on top, definitely let me know if those aren't working for you. Accounts, saving, and custom stored budgets are definitely on the horizon. I had been iterating for so long that I was starting to go crazy, and decided that it was definitely time to get it out there before I totally lost it!
theearthawaits 10y ago
I'm the creator of The Earth Awaits. It's the tool I've always wanted to evaluate my ability to live abroad on a limited budget. It generates custom budgets based on your inputs, and filters the cities to match your budget, pollution, and crime rate preferences. There are so many great sites on the internet that aggregate data about cities and countries, but none that build a budget that's tailored specifically to you. I want to know how I can take my lifestyle and translate it to another country. What would it cost? Where can I afford with my current, meager retirement savings? The tool is aimed at world travelers, expat retirees, students studying abroad, any really anyone with a sense of adventure willing to live someplace long-term. It's also a useful tool for those interested in relocating within their own country. One of the common complaints with crowdsourced cost-of-living data is inaccuracy, which can be true inaccuracy or simply a mismatch in lifestyle expectations. That's why I added the ability to edit your budget for cities line-by-line, and to download the data as a CSV when you're done. If you disagree with me, use the data as the basis for your own budget! The application is written in Python/Django, and is my first-ever web app.

Love the idea and the site! A couple suggestions: * Let me create a user account and save cities * Make cities shareable so I send a link to e.g. my wife for discussion * I don't mind getting emails with packages that fit my budget and my cities, that can be a great revenue generator I just shared it with my brother, and we started talking about taking a month-long vacation to one of the cities, perhaps after coordination with my other siblings and parents. Maybe that can be a long-term feature.

theearthawaits 10y ago
Thanks, and thanks for the feedback! There are social sharing links on the bottom-right of the image on top, definitely let me know if those aren't working for you. Accounts, saving, and custom stored budgets are definitely on the horizon. I had been iterating for so long that I was starting to go crazy, and decided that it was definitely time to get it out there before I totally lost it!

theearthawaits 10y ago

I'm the creator of The Earth Awaits. It's the tool I've always wanted to evaluate my ability to live abroad on a limited budget. It generates custom budgets based on your inputs, and filters the cities to match your budget, pollution, and crime rate preferences. There are so many great sites on the internet that aggregate data about cities and countries, but none that build a budget that's tailored specifically to you. I want to know how I can take my lifestyle and translate it to another country. What would it cost? Where can I afford with my current, meager retirement savings? The tool is aimed at world travelers, expat retirees, students studying abroad, any really anyone with a sense of adventure willing to live someplace long-term. It's also a useful tool for those interested in relocating within their own country. One of the common complaints with crowdsourced cost-of-living data is inaccuracy, which can be true inaccuracy or simply a mismatch in lifestyle expectations. That's why I added the ability to edit your budget for cities line-by-line, and to download the data as a CSV when you're done. If you disagree with me, use the data as the basis for your own budget! The application is written in Python/Django, and is my first-ever web app.