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Travel. Just book yourself for two month long stays at a bunch of places and see what you like. I tried that but sucked at it and eneded up staying in the fir

Travel. Just book yourself for two month long stays at a bunch of places and see what you like. I tried that but sucked at it and eneded up staying in the first place I did a stint at... but to be fair there are worse places than Colorado's west slope, especially if you bike and climb and ski. You say that you just need a bar and a supermarket, but you've probably never lived in, like, Brady, TX or Cuba, NM. Stuff gets small fast, though those are cheap places to live. You can buy amazing houses in defunct oilfeild towns like Pampa, TX. But really, if you have a heart attack there you're in for about an hour drive to get to definitive care.

xur17 4y ago
> but to be fair there are worse places than Colorado's west slope, especially if you bike and climb and ski. Where exactly did you end up?
SOLAR_FIELDS 4y ago
If you’re pretty good with QGIS and willing to spend a couple hundred USD for some data sources I bet it wouldn’t be too tough to go and find a bunch of data (a lot of which is already mostly publicly available) to find a suitable location that meets your criteria. What you would do is load all of the data as layers in QGIS, then, probably starting with house listings that met your criteria, select all homes that were within X miles/meters to stuff like - grocery store - hospital - lake - bar - climbing spot/bike trails/hiking - etc etc etc what ever you want for criteria Hardest part would be hunting down all the data and some geocoding would probably be involved (there would probably be several data sources that you would have to convert from list of addresses to lat/long points) but there are enough free geocoding services out there that this wouldn’t be tough at all. All in all could probably be done in an afternoon or two for someone familiar with tech but a newbie to QGIS

xur17 4y ago

> but to be fair there are worse places than Colorado's west slope, especially if you bike and climb and ski. Where exactly did you end up?

SOLAR_FIELDS 4y ago

If you’re pretty good with QGIS and willing to spend a couple hundred USD for some data sources I bet it wouldn’t be too tough to go and find a bunch of data (a lot of which is already mostly publicly available) to find a suitable location that meets your criteria. What you would do is load all of the data as layers in QGIS, then, probably starting with house listings that met your criteria, select all homes that were within X miles/meters to stuff like - grocery store - hospital - lake - bar - climbing spot/bike trails/hiking - etc etc etc what ever you want for criteria Hardest part would be hunting down all the data and some geocoding would probably be involved (there would probably be several data sources that you would have to convert from list of addresses to lat/long points) but there are enough free geocoding services out there that this wouldn’t be tough at all. All in all could probably be done in an afternoon or two for someone familiar with tech but a newbie to QGIS