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Ask HN: What are the best US cities for for working remotely?
What are the best cities with affordable housing that are big enough to have a good variety of food and no (or a very mild) winter that have enough of a tech community for some meetups, etc?
I'm looking for places cheaper than Austin when it comes to cost of living.
- jamesmp98 9y agoAtlanta?
- gargarplex 9y agoAtlanta has a good food, a tech community, affordable housing and office space
- tedmiston 9y agoI don't usually like posts that just link to an external resource, but Nomad List is a (free) search engine built for this exact use case. They have both domestic and international cities. https://nomadlist.com/ https://nomadlist.com/ The same guy that created that also recently made a second project of crowdsourced neighborhood characteristics within each city. For example, if you want to find where the tech or hipster neighborhood in a given city is. https://hoodmaps.com/ https://hoodmaps.com/ For example, SF: https://hoodmaps.com/san-francisco https://hoodmaps.com/san-francisco
- hueving 9y agoDo they have a way of ranking by places to live permanently? This site doesn't seem to take into account things like buying a house and property taxes.
- tedmiston 9y agoI think it's mostly focused on short-term living (digital nomads). It may be worth contacting the creator on Twitter. I'm sure it's not the first time he's had that type of request.
- pieterhg 9y agoYes. I'm the maker of Nomad List. You can rank/sort by more long-term attributes like quality of life, rent price etc. Property taxes are too granular data to collect for me and impossible to keep up-to-date for 1,000+ cities though. See https://nomadlist.com/#sort=life_score https://nomadlist.com/#sort=life_score for a more long-term quality of life ranking of cities.
- pieterhg 9y ago"What are the best cities with affordable housing that are big enough to have a good variety of food and no (or a very mild) winter that have enough of a tech community for some meetups, etc?" https://nomadlist.com/cheap-mild-cities-to-visit-in-january-and-december/united-states https://nomadlist.com/cheap-mild-cities-to-visit-in-january-... The answer would be Tucson, AZ and San Antonio, TX. If budget isn't important you have more options: https://nomadlist.com/mild-cities-to-visit-in-january-and-december/united-states https://nomadlist.com/mild-cities-to-visit-in-january-and-de... - Gainesville, FL - Tampa, FL - Los Angeles, CA - San Diego, CA - Jacksonville, FL - Austin, TX - Santa Monica, CA - Phoenix, AZ - Houston, TX - Orlando, FL If you're okay with outside United States, you have countless more options: https://nomadlist.com/mild-cities-to-visit-in-january-and-december/north-america https://nomadlist.com/mild-cities-to-visit-in-january-and-de... From Portugal to Taiwan, Israel to Ecuador, Colombia to Thailand. P.S. this is based on "mild" temperatures as you said. If you're fine with warm/hot climates, there's even more options. P.S.2. the cost of living data on Nomad List is now 90%+ accurate.
- bradknowles 9y agoIs San Antonio really that much cheaper than Austin? I'd be really surprised if that were true, but I'd love to see the evidence.
- pieterhg 9y agoYep, Austin has become a lot more expensive with the influx of people from the rest of America. Data is crowdsourced but cross checked with public cost of living data for accuracy.
- jpster 9y agoDallas.
- bradknowles 9y agoDallas isn't any cheaper than Austin. If anything, it's more expensive.
- jpster 9y agoWhat makes you say that? Rent is cheaper in Dallas. https://smartasset.com/mortgage/the-true-cost-of-living-in-dallas https://smartasset.com/mortgage/the-true-cost-of-living-in-d...
- cylinder 9y agoSomewhere beautiful an hour or so outside of LA or north of SF. Drive into town when there's meetups. Don't waste this opportunity to live in a really nice place that most people cannot viably live in due to lack of employment opportunities.
- hueving 9y agoGood point, the only thing I'm concerned about is not having a good variety of restaurants if I'm that far out.
- zerr 9y agoA question for those who live in a year-around summer/spring - isn't it too monotonous? I mean when you don't have a "real" four seasons...
- FlopV 9y agoI live in the USVI, and we don't have any seasons other than hurricane season... The reason I live here is because it has my favorite season year round, allowing me to do the hobbies I love year round. spearfishing, hiking, boating, etc. We get a lot of sun, which makes my mood much better than a dark or rainy place. Having lived in New England, the winter was always kind of something you had to get through that I didn't enjoy.