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Re:Ask HN: Remote Developers, what tools/apps you wish you h... by BjoernKW on Saturday February 04, 2017 @09:20AM (#13567043)
SE Asia is a rather big place but I suppose it's a combination of:

- low cost of living

- pleasant climate

- decent infrastructure

- interesting, diverse culture

- being generally welcoming to foreigners (to those with somewhat big pockets at least)

You get some of those traits in many other non-South-East-Asian countries as well but all of them combined is a pretty rare occurrence.

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Re:Ask HN: Remote Developers, what tools/apps you wish you h... by victorhn on Saturday February 04, 2017 @09:33AM (#13567081)
Pretty much most of Latin America satisfies all of this. I wonder why it is not more popular among nomads, maybe because fame of high rates of crime?
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Re:Ask HN: Remote Developers, what tools/apps you wish you h... by BjoernKW on Saturday February 04, 2017 @09:41AM (#13567105)
That could be a reason.

Linguistically at least Latin America should be much more accessible to most people.

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Re:Ask HN: Remote Developers, what tools/apps you wish you h... by wprapido on Saturday February 04, 2017 @10:02AM (#13567173)
latin america has terrible crime rates. yet, there are decent digital nomad communities in mexico, colombia and argentina
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Re:Ask HN: Remote Developers, what tools/apps you wish you h... by mod on Sunday February 05, 2017 @03:23AM (#13571468)
The digital community was lacking, but I spent time in Costa Rica and found it very safe, inviting, and beautiful.

I was in a very small surf town on the Pacific coast with a strong ex-pat presence.

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Re:Ask HN: Remote Developers, what tools/apps you wish you h... by wprapido on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @01:15AM (#13587475)
central america has entirely different vibe, for worse. yeah, costa rica seemed safe though, but not quite so other central american countries
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