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Re:Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work rem... by S4M on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @08:38AM (#8107702)
> Secondly, NomadCost != cost of living. NomadCost is based on short-term staying in a hostel, hotel or apartment in the center, working in a coworking space and having a basic meal three times a day. That's the average digital nomad's lifestyle. They move around every few months, so they can't rent long-term. So NomadCost will be way more expensive than cost of living for a resident.

I suggest you to let the user expand the NomadCost into the three things you mention: short term staying, coworking space, three meals a day? Why? I may be planning to work nomadly in Tokyo for example, and for me it would be cheaper than what you mention because I can stay with my in-laws (and possibly could use the office of some friend). On the other hand, I would pay the same amount as a normal nomad for the meals, so if I knew how much they cost I could more accurately forecast how much it would cost me to stay in Tokyo.

Re:Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work rem... by blakerson on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @10:38AM (#8108404)
I'm intuitively guessing that there's more geographic variance in rent prices than in coworking or food. Everyone will have different ameliorating factors in different cities, like friends or in-laws, and I'd argue that splitting out the NomadCost creates more mental work for a visitor than is necessary for the purposes of comparing cities to one another.

tl;dr we all have friends and fam, so chill

Re:Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work rem... by jtheory on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @11:08AM (#8108623)
I think you misunderstood the request (providing the option to drill down doesn't create more mental work), but I also disagree about "we all have friends and fam"... the typical digital nomad is NOT traveling to see family in friends; they're (for example) someone from SF traveling to SE Asia.

My own family & friends are split up all over the world (and my wife's parents live on the opposite of the world from mine, and we've lived in 3 different countries at one time or another but now are sort of in-between them), but it's still really unusual.

I'm pretty sure the calculations are assuming you don't have family/friends to host you.

Re:Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work rem... by dethstar on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @11:09AM (#8108630)
>splitting out the NomadCost creates more mental work for a visitor than is necessary for the purposes of comparing cities to one another.

It'd be more helpful is not like the split version has to be the default.