Ask HN: Are you a remote worker that escaped to the countryside?

Re:Ask HN: Are you a remote worker that escaped to the count... by mlthoughts2018 on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:59PM (#17526645)

We might be talking past one another, because I was talking about the OP's main topic, which was remote jobs specifically in rural areas. I understood this to implicitly be talking about locations where it was specifically not possible to drive a reasonable or even semi-long commute distance and find yourself in a high-density urban center.

Taking a remote job when you already live in a city or when you live within a reasonable drive of some other job center would mitigate a lot of the risk I am describing. I am only talking about specifically using a remote job as license to move to a highly isolated, rural area not within commutable distance to a big job center.

The OP and other comments seem to describe this as a wholly positive ideal, and in many ways I can agree. But I felt an important part of the discussion is that if you use a single specific remote job as license to move to e.g. rural Wyoming and live on a ranch with DSL internet, you're setting yourself up for trouble, because it's actually not easy to find a new job in a pinch like that.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you a remote worker that escaped to the count... by ghaff on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:41PM (#17527497)

The OP asked about moving to the countryside in general. Which you can do with reduced (though not minimized) costs without moving to rural Wyoming. I actually agree that, while moving to a mountaintop somewhere may still be a reasonable option for some people, you can mitigate risk considerably by moving to the outskirts of a general metro area that also has local options.

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