I spent 3 weeks there in October with friends and thoroughly loved it, in the same breath also loved coming home. [yes...I can drink water out the tap and it wo

I spent 3 weeks there in October with friends and thoroughly loved it, in the same breath also loved coming home. [yes...I can drink water out the tap and it won't try to kill me!]. I think the dogs have improved in the last few years with a concerted effort to clean things up in that regard [errr.. don't want to think what that actually means]. We spent 10 days on the Sayan Terrace area in Ubud and could certainly see the mental wellness qualities of coding overlooking a stunning vista. That said the latency was pretty terrible back to servers located in the states (quite iffy internet) + power up and down; as opposed to North Kuta where at least internet was more solid. If younger me were trying to do something hidden way for a while coding; and location didn't make a difference, and you wanted to limit costs... it certainly would be a consideration. Stunning beautiful country, with a lot of litter, a healthy dose of asia-traffic-chaos, lovely, lovely people, cheap cost of living. You would just have to have a bit of a strong constitution about the odd thing you'd see. Of course, you'd have to not get sucked into getting into Island time and loosing productivity to Bintangs...