Ask HN: How did you decide where to live?

Re:Ask HN: How did you decide where to live? by kyleblarson on Saturday December 15, 2018 @10:49AM (#18688796)

I live in a tiny town in North central Washington state right by North Cascades National Park. We have about 200 full time residents. Originally built our house as a weekend place (about 4-5 hours from Seattle) but started working remotely in 2011 and was getting sick of Seattle going the way of San Francisco so we decided to move full time. I have to go to SF a lot for work and the travel can be tough with mountain passes, weather and flight delays out of the tiny airport I use but it's 100% worth it to be within a 5 minute drive of hundreds of pitches of climbing and right in the middle of the largest maintained network of nordic ski trails in North America.

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Re:Ask HN: How did you decide where to live? by starpilot on Saturday December 15, 2018 @11:11AM (#18688918)

Note, find a SO before moving to a tiny mountain town.

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Re:Ask HN: How did you decide where to live? by kpennell on Monday December 17, 2018 @02:36AM (#18697475)

yes, and be ready to get social fulfillment from them too.

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Re:Ask HN: How did you decide where to live? by RomanPushkin on Sunday December 16, 2018 @08:27PM (#18696325)

what is SO?

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Re:Ask HN: How did you decide where to live? by grzm on Sunday December 16, 2018 @08:28PM (#18696327)

Significant other

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Re:Ask HN: How did you decide where to live? by musclecrab on Saturday December 15, 2018 @11:43AM (#18689078)

I think I'm from that town you're talking about. Is it the one named after a goat, near a larger one named after a wasp?

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Re:Ask HN: How did you decide where to live? by kyleblarson on Saturday December 15, 2018 @09:13PM (#18691396)

yes

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Re:Ask HN: How did you decide where to live? by musclecrab on Sunday December 16, 2018 @08:26PM (#18696314)

I couldn't handle the cold there! If winter sports are your jam though, it's a good place to be. I recommend hitting up the Arrowleaf, if you haven't. one of my homies runs it

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Re:Ask HN: How did you decide where to live? by beatgammit on Saturday December 15, 2018 @08:30PM (#18691285)

I'm thinking of moving to that same general area. Right now I'm in Utah because that's where my first real job was, but my family lives near Seattle, Idaho, and Montana and I want more sun than Seattle and more green than everything in between.

I've thought about moving close to Leavenworth/Cle Elum or down south on the border of Oregon near Hood River/The Dalles.

We're still in the planning stages, and I'm rounding up some more clients just in case my main client stops working out (and I'm working on some startup ideas as well).

I just wanted to say that I'm super jealous that you're living in the area that I want to end up.

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Re:Ask HN: How did you decide where to live? by temp9999 on Saturday December 15, 2018 @11:00AM (#18688862)

This sounds like my dream. :) Have you had to change jobs while being remote?

I'm torn between having my kid (4 now) grow up in Seattle w/ access to great schools and dozens of different educational & extracurricular activities, or to grow up someplace less hectic, where he can run out the front door in the morning and play outside all day.

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Re:Ask HN: How did you decide where to live? by miranda_rights on Saturday December 15, 2018 @02:19PM (#18689865)

Depending on how much free time you have, you could always homeschool him! The educational/extracurricular activities part is hard though -- I was homeschooled and got a lot of my 'socialization' through team sports, which can be harder in a rural area.

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Re:Ask HN: How did you decide where to live? by robertAngst on Saturday December 15, 2018 @10:50AM (#18688800)

No kids yet?

We loved the location we were in, but the school districts were awful.

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Re:Ask HN: How did you decide where to live? by kyleblarson on Saturday December 15, 2018 @11:05AM (#18688892)

No kids yet but haven't ruled it out. It's actually a great place to raise them. The local public schools are one town over and are very well supported by the diverse population in our valley. The high school actually has a shooting range for ski biathlon. https://methow.org/ edit: added link

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Re:Ask HN: How did you decide where to live? by starpilot on Saturday December 15, 2018 @06:35PM (#18690954)

A distressing number of rural towns in WA and CA are meth towns. Some of them are in the process of being cleaned up and gentrified.

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