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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by adamcharnock on Monday October 08, 2018 @05:27AM (#18165726)
Glad to see this as the first comment I read. Im currently sat in Portugal on 4ha of land I have brought over near Fundão. It is more out of the way, but still has excellent access to cities. Plus it is absolutely beautiful.

I’m a freelance software developer and can happily work out here even on a plot of land which has no power/net connection. The 3G/4G is great, and everything easily runs of a single solar panel.

This isn’t my long term plan, but does me well when I come out here for a few weeks at a time. Long term there’ll be a house etc.

If there was a coworking space in Covilha / Castelo Branco I’d be very keen.

Otherwise I may start a little coders retreat or some such :-)

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by andai on Monday October 08, 2018 @06:52AM (#18166221)
If no house, what is your solar panel currently attached to? That sounds like an interesting setup.
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by stevejb on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:49AM (#18166917)
Not OP, but I have done work with literally a camping solar panel charging a 12V battery and a car power -> laptop power adapter. The setup cost me approximately $1000 AUD. I use the solar power for other things as well.
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by adamcharnock on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:47AM (#18166900)
Simply propped up facing the sun. Sat on the ground. Super simple, but rather effective.
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by dharma1 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @04:20AM (#18174164)
Where do you live if there is no house?
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by nik736 on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:26AM (#18166771)
Where's the blog post? :-)
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by adamcharnock on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:48AM (#18166910)
Since you ask:

https://blog.adamcharnock.com

But this reminds me I haven’t posted for ages!

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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by nik736 on Monday October 08, 2018 @09:01AM (#18166985)
Cool, how much have you paid?
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atm... by adamcharnock on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:04AM (#18167515)
Ask me via email :-) It’s on my site.
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