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> rather than spending that cash on a bigger AirBnB/hotel room promising a desk and fast WiFi This is a risk you can't take as a business-person in a lot of wa
by tristor 10y ago
> rather than spending that cash on a bigger AirBnB/hotel room promising a desk and fast WiFi
This is a risk you can't take as a business-person in a lot of ways. There's many places in the world that are great to visit and travel to, but that simply don't have acceptable quality of residential Internet connections. For example, I was in Rabat, Morocco a few months ago and was able to work effectively because I had a coworking space with fiber Internet connectivity, meanwhile the best broadband connection on offer to residential addresses was similar in performance to 56k dial-up in most of the rest of the world.
The part that makes a coworking space a preferable working environment isn't the lack of solitude, it's the guarantee of high performance Internet connectivity.
- notahacker 10y agoFor you (and even then, I doubt you went on Remote Year for the inside information on wireless connectivity...) I worked from Morocco last month, so I'd be the first to concede their internet isn't particularly good by developing world standards, but there are an awful lot of remote workers for whom a 200 dirham dongle would do the trick. Not to mention an abundance of coworking spaces in London, where domestic wifi tends to be excellent, many of which are geared mostly or exclusively to permanent residents.