Re:Ask HN: Are you a remote worker that escaped to the count...
by drewg123 on Friday July 13, 2018 @08:55AM
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It depends what you consider the "countryside" and what you consider "escape".
Right now, I'm in an average subdivision in a rural county outside Richmond, VA. My neighbors all commute into the city, but I work remotely for a CA company. I'm not sure if I live in what you consider to be the "countryside". Whenever we go anywhere, we drive by farms, etc. FWIW, the walk score of my house is basically 0, and would actually be 0 if there wasn't a church within a mile.
In terms of "escape": I've worked remotely since 2001, with a two-year stint in an office at Google in MTV a few years ago. My initial motivation to work remotely was that my wife took a job as a professor at a rural college. I stuck with that company even after she decided she didn't like the job and we moved back to civilization. So I would not really say that I "escaped". We did not live in a major metro area before moving to the rural college, so there was really nothing to escape from. I will however say that finally moving out of the Bay area and back into our house in VA really did feel like an escape.
Right now, I'm in an average subdivision in a rural county outside Richmond, VA. My neighbors all commute into the city, but I work remotely for a CA company. I'm not sure if I live in what you consider to be the "countryside". Whenever we go anywhere, we drive by farms, etc. FWIW, the walk score of my house is basically 0, and would actually be 0 if there wasn't a church within a mile.
In terms of "escape": I've worked remotely since 2001, with a two-year stint in an office at Google in MTV a few years ago. My initial motivation to work remotely was that my wife took a job as a professor at a rural college. I stuck with that company even after she decided she didn't like the job and we moved back to civilization. So I would not really say that I "escaped". We did not live in a major metro area before moving to the rural college, so there was really nothing to escape from. I will however say that finally moving out of the Bay area and back into our house in VA really did feel like an escape.