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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by thewizardofaus on Monday October 08, 2018 @02:57AM (#18164739)
As a fellow Aussie living on the main land - Tassie is absolutely gorgeous. I'd love to work remotely from Tassie and live on a big farm. Oh boy... One can dream.
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by dtkav on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:05AM (#18166646)
I'm not Aussie (yet), but I think you could pull it off!
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by ryan-allen on Monday October 08, 2018 @03:20AM (#18164875)
Remote role with NBN, it's probably do-able!
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by ObsoleteNerd on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:11AM (#18165245)
Funnily enough I had faster/better internet on a farm at the very bottom of Tasmania (50mbps fixed wireless) than I did in an inner Melbourne suburb (ADSL2 only, walking distance to CBD).

One of the weird things about the NBN roll-out was rural areas getting more attention than city suburbs.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by ryan-allen on Friday October 12, 2018 @02:42AM (#18199721)
> One of the weird things about the NBN roll-out was rural areas getting more attention than city suburbs.

In some ways that makes the possibility of getting out and working remote better, you could buy a much cheaper house and have it paid off much sooner in a nice town, if that's your bag.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by dtkav on Monday October 08, 2018 @07:13AM (#18166320)
Yeah, I've been pleasantly surprised with fiber here in Hobart. The only thing that sucks is the latency of ssh to US cloud providers, but I haven't found it to be a big deal.
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