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> I'm on the opinion of, if you need a house, buy a house - because you do need a place to live. If you have the luxury of being able to live anywhere (e.g. 10

> I'm on the opinion of, if you need a house, buy a house - because you do need a place to live. If you have the luxury of being able to live anywhere (e.g. 100% remote work, or no need for work), there are some exceptionally affordable places to rent housing until the market cools and it's a better time to buy. I don't think it makes sense to buy high unless you have very limited options.

0des 4y ago
Plenty of room (and bbq) down here, we'd be happy to have y'all.
- daniel_iversen 4y ago
  Where is “down here” - hopefully you don’t mean Australia because we’ve had a housing bubble bigger than the US and we are just (probably) slowly about to come down from it :)
  - eckza 4y ago
    Probably Texas. There is... _so much Texas_ that isn't Austin or Houston or DFW or San Antonio. A lot of it's really great, too. I miss Texas.
    - chasd00 4y ago
      If in could live anywhere in Texas it would be Alpine. I was married in Marathon and I’ve always been drawn to that part of the state. I have roots and work in Dallas though so that’s where I am… for now.
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- jason-phillips 4y ago
  Howdy neighbor
citboin 4y ago
> ….there are some exceptionally affordable places to rent housing until the market cools and it's a better time to buy. Where?
- pengaru 4y ago
  > Where? There's this thing, you may have heard of it, it indexes the World Wide Web and allows you to search that index free of charge. They call them search engines, a popular one is Google at https://google.com https://google.com, but I presently prefer https://duckduckgo.com https://duckduckgo.com. A cursory search using obvious keywords reveals that Cambodia is one such place, where one can apparently live in downtown Phnom Penh for less than $500/mo.
  - 0des 4y ago
    > There's this thing, you may have heard of it, it indexes the World Wide Web and allows you to search that index free of charge. They call them search engines, a popular one is Google at https://google.com https://google.com, but I presently prefer https://duckduckgo.com https://duckduckgo.com. Don't post this type of stuff here.
    - pengaru 4y ago
      Don't ask me a low-effort trivially-answered yourself question without expecting me to tell you where you can answer such questions yourself since you apparently don't know how.
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      - 0des 4y ago
        Bless your heart.
      - citboin 4y ago
        Ok, wow, so it is not trivial and my one question was intended to be just an opening question in a larger conversation. It took some effort and multiple website searches to find affordable rentals in the USA that were not in high crime areas, near specialized healthcare that I need, with reasonable laws regarding certain things that matter to me, and that had the amenities I was searching for. If you had simply said “Cambodia” we could have had an interesting conversation about how useless Google is in this case.
hello_moto 4y ago
This luxurious assumption only holds if the person has worked remotely prior to the pandemic. The folks that got their life situation updated due to Covid19 should think and let it simmer for a while. I have coworker that decided to move far, outside major tech city and now with RTO and recession, he's seeing less remote opportunity with the same high level of income as the major tech city.
- throwoutway 4y ago
  Despite RTO, there’s literally more “remote opp” than ever before in human history

0des 4y ago

Plenty of room (and bbq) down here, we'd be happy to have y'all.

daniel_iversen 4y ago
Where is “down here” - hopefully you don’t mean Australia because we’ve had a housing bubble bigger than the US and we are just (probably) slowly about to come down from it :)
- eckza 4y ago
  Probably Texas. There is... _so much Texas_ that isn't Austin or Houston or DFW or San Antonio. A lot of it's really great, too. I miss Texas.
  - chasd00 4y ago
    If in could live anywhere in Texas it would be Alpine. I was married in Marathon and I’ve always been drawn to that part of the state. I have roots and work in Dallas though so that’s where I am… for now.
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jason-phillips 4y ago
Howdy neighbor

citboin 4y ago

> ….there are some exceptionally affordable places to rent housing until the market cools and it's a better time to buy. Where?

pengaru 4y ago
> Where? There's this thing, you may have heard of it, it indexes the World Wide Web and allows you to search that index free of charge. They call them search engines, a popular one is Google at https://google.com https://google.com, but I presently prefer https://duckduckgo.com https://duckduckgo.com. A cursory search using obvious keywords reveals that Cambodia is one such place, where one can apparently live in downtown Phnom Penh for less than $500/mo.
- 0des 4y ago
  > There's this thing, you may have heard of it, it indexes the World Wide Web and allows you to search that index free of charge. They call them search engines, a popular one is Google at https://google.com https://google.com, but I presently prefer https://duckduckgo.com https://duckduckgo.com. Don't post this type of stuff here.
  - pengaru 4y ago
    Don't ask me a low-effort trivially-answered yourself question without expecting me to tell you where you can answer such questions yourself since you apparently don't know how.
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    - 0des 4y ago
      Bless your heart.
    - citboin 4y ago
      Ok, wow, so it is not trivial and my one question was intended to be just an opening question in a larger conversation. It took some effort and multiple website searches to find affordable rentals in the USA that were not in high crime areas, near specialized healthcare that I need, with reasonable laws regarding certain things that matter to me, and that had the amenities I was searching for. If you had simply said “Cambodia” we could have had an interesting conversation about how useless Google is in this case.

hello_moto 4y ago

This luxurious assumption only holds if the person has worked remotely prior to the pandemic. The folks that got their life situation updated due to Covid19 should think and let it simmer for a while. I have coworker that decided to move far, outside major tech city and now with RTO and recession, he's seeing less remote opportunity with the same high level of income as the major tech city.

throwoutway 4y ago
Despite RTO, there’s literally more “remote opp” than ever before in human history