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I'm ready for high-tech, work-from-home workers to build a trailer park in some remote location (as long as it has great internet), where you have to quarantine

I'm ready for high-tech, work-from-home workers to build a trailer park in some remote location (as long as it has great internet), where you have to quarantine for two weeks on the way in, but once you're in your kid gets to go to school with other kids the same age, your infant gets to go to daycare. I mean, really, a lot of Bay Area people would probably end up with MORE living space in a mobile home. Either that, or maybe I should just be trying to move to New Zealand.

sneak 6y ago
Next year, thanks to Starlink, all remote locations in the continental US will have great internet. https://sneak.berlin/20200129/starlink/ https://sneak.berlin/20200129/starlink/
- VikingCoder 6y ago
  I'm hopeful, but skeptical.
- hinkley 6y ago
  Eternal September is about to get turned to 11.
nwsm 6y ago
This is what Bay Area techies wish the Bay Area was
ngngngng 6y ago
I would love to move to New Zealand, but I don't want to renounce my US citizenship and I don't want to pay double income tax.
- otoburb 6y ago
  Why would you need to renounce US citizenship, and why would you pay double income tax? The US has a tax treaty with New Zealand[1] to minimize (but not eliminate) these types of double-taxation issues. [1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-trty/newzld.pdf https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-trty/newzld.pdf
- tcbasche 6y ago
  It's always interesting when I hear US citizens whinge about paying more tax. Heaven forbid you get a functioning healthcare system and a government that actually governs
  - ngngngng 6y ago
    I was under the apparently mistaken impression that NZ was one of the countries where I would have to pay US tax and NZ tax. I'm no opposed to paying more tax for sane healthcare or functional government. But paying two countries taxes would be prohibitive, and NZ is not exactly cheap.
- titanomachy 6y ago
  That's not how it works. If you moved to NZ (or any other country with a US tax treaty) you would basically pay an amount equal to the greater of the two tax bills. You should do more research if this is an option you're seriously considering.

sneak 6y ago

Next year, thanks to Starlink, all remote locations in the continental US will have great internet. https://sneak.berlin/20200129/starlink/ https://sneak.berlin/20200129/starlink/

VikingCoder 6y ago
I'm hopeful, but skeptical.
hinkley 6y ago
Eternal September is about to get turned to 11.

nwsm 6y ago

This is what Bay Area techies wish the Bay Area was

ngngngng 6y ago

I would love to move to New Zealand, but I don't want to renounce my US citizenship and I don't want to pay double income tax.

otoburb 6y ago
Why would you need to renounce US citizenship, and why would you pay double income tax? The US has a tax treaty with New Zealand[1] to minimize (but not eliminate) these types of double-taxation issues. [1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-trty/newzld.pdf https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-trty/newzld.pdf
tcbasche 6y ago
It's always interesting when I hear US citizens whinge about paying more tax. Heaven forbid you get a functioning healthcare system and a government that actually governs
- ngngngng 6y ago
  I was under the apparently mistaken impression that NZ was one of the countries where I would have to pay US tax and NZ tax. I'm no opposed to paying more tax for sane healthcare or functional government. But paying two countries taxes would be prohibitive, and NZ is not exactly cheap.
titanomachy 6y ago
That's not how it works. If you moved to NZ (or any other country with a US tax treaty) you would basically pay an amount equal to the greater of the two tax bills. You should do more research if this is an option you're seriously considering.