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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by shoo on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:36AM (#18165386)
tasmania has historically been a relatively poor part of australia, recently hobart has been having an issue with availability and affordability of housing, particularly relative to local wages: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-23/hobart-beats-sydney-mo...

hobart is not a great choice if you are looking to find software-related work locally. you'd be better off in one of the bigger "mainland" australian cities, melbourne, sydney or brisbane, or perhaps perth if the mining industry is in full boom phase. +/- intellectual atmosphere.

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by dtkav on Monday October 08, 2018 @07:31AM (#18166424)
I agree that this isn't a place to find a software job. I interpreted op's "follow my own intellectual pursuits" as not working. If they are coming from the bay area as a software engineer then their savings will go a very long way here, but not so much in other big cities.
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