Let People Move to Jobs

Re:Let People Move to Jobs by bitforger on Sunday January 19, 2020 @09:27AM (#22091572)

It's not really the money, it's the level of education and ambition. I worked remotely from Mount Pleasant, Michigan for a year and had a difficult time finding anyone to talk with about things that were interesting to me. The only group on Meetups.com was "Housewives of Mount Pleasant."

Friends are peers that have similar life experiences and values (and humor). Sometimes people like that are hard to find.

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Re:Let People Move to Jobs by tigroferoce on Sunday January 19, 2020 @09:48AM (#22091678)

IMO when you work remote you can work from a small town OR you can move to other places if you like. For many moving is not an option because the rest of their family is in a place. There are other options other than Mount Pleasant, Michigan and the Bay area

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Re:Let People Move to Jobs by reallydontask on Sunday January 19, 2020 @10:41AM (#22091972)

> Friends are peers that have similar life experiences and values (and humor)

This is an pretty narrow definition of friendship.

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Re:Let People Move to Jobs by bitforger on Sunday January 19, 2020 @02:42PM (#22093496)

If you have a better definition, I'd like to hear it. I don't have many friends, so my definition encompasses all of them. Maybe if I had a better definition, I'd be able to make more friends.

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Re:Let People Move to Jobs by reallydontask on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:57AM (#22105327)

I'd open up your definition:

anybody instead of peers

some shared experiences or some shared values and forget about humour.

FWIW, I'm probably not qualified as I probably have more activity partners, or context friends, than true friends but your definition seemed incredibly limiting.

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Re:Let People Move to Jobs by david-gpu on Sunday January 19, 2020 @04:38PM (#22094289)

A friend is somebody you know whose company you enjoy. Depending on context, it does not include members of your family.

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Re:Let People Move to Jobs by zorak on Sunday January 19, 2020 @10:01AM (#22091746)

Sounds like you were looking for more of a college town vibe. Austin, Athens, Madison, etc.

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Re:Let People Move to Jobs by ebiester on Sunday January 19, 2020 @10:57AM (#22092051)

I'm currently in a similar situation: I'm working from a MCOL area and remote from the home office. I don't love the city, but it's a nice city for other people. (I am here because of my academic spouse - he wasn't offered a job in a technical hub.)

We end up saving amazing amounts of money, relatively speaking, but our social life has been difficult to fill in. College vibe helps, but there are vast benefits to large cities and I'm certainly missing those.

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Re:Let People Move to Jobs by stallmanite on Sunday January 19, 2020 @10:38AM (#22091960)

Or Ann Arbor or East Lansing

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