Re:Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote w...
by cguess on Monday August 15, 2022 @12:43PM
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Columbia's not bad. But it's 2 hours from KC or St Louis, which is a haul for an Apple Store. The airport's not bad actually, but you always are connecting through DFW or ORD, so the layover is just a thing. Flying into STL is still followed by a two hour drive, so never worth it.
Re:Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote w...
by avisser on Monday August 15, 2022 @01:38PM
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Athens, GA was an amazing town to live in. Amazing live music scene. Great food. And big enough to have neighborhoods for the undergrads that you could avoid.
Living ~1hr from ATL was also a luxury - you fly direct everywhere on Delta.
Re:Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote w...
by jcpst on Monday August 15, 2022 @12:38PM
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Lawrence is nice, I lived near downtown for cheap, was able to walk most of the time. There was a very active music scene- I was an in-house engineer at one of the recording studios there.
Columbia is also nice, but a little more spread out. Ames IA, Tulsa, Champaign-Urbana, Ann Arbor…
College towns often have plenty of live music coming through with regularity, art, people with more open minds? (I don't mean to start a debate with the last point, just my preference perhaps.)
Lawrence works too because you're 30 or 45 minutes from a big city (Kansas City) so you can get your REI or IKEA on if you need to.
Lincoln, Nebraska is another near me (although I have not lived there) that is within 45 minutes of Omaha.
Had lunch in Iowa City and it looked comparable. An afternoon in Columbia, Missouri and it looked appealing as well.