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ny weather has been pretty reasonable this summer but i shouldn't say that while we're only half way through august there was a fairly lovely wet heatwave for a week in late july but that was about it eh honestly though nyc isn't that bad. it's ugly-ish at least by european standards, garbage everywhere, and the weather is kinda crap but if you can deal with those things it's actually quite a decent place to live unless you have a family in which case lmao get hosed
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hobbesmaster posted:dry heat eventually turns into "oh god i need to get away from the oven" somewhere around 110ish still better than "why no, the torrents of sweat aren't going to stop, why do you ask?"
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Sapozhnik posted:post em MSP is great in addition to places other people have mentioned just from looking for jobs without a location filter I've noticed that just about any sizeable city has them and you can find ones that pay well for the area (just like SF) you won't have the opportunity to wipe your rear end with AAPL or whichever stock class Google gives the little people but you can still live really well
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I've been to Minneapolis seems nice enough, though I found myself downtown during the weekend and it was just some straight up Chernobyl poo poo not a single other person anywhere in sight
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Janitor Prime posted:Shameful plug for Seattle instead of SV and NY as a good tech hub city Agreed, Seattle is cool and good.
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Seattle is fun but it's already very expensive now andrapidly becoming worse. You can thank the big 4 for that.
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ADINSX posted:Seattle does everything better than the bay area like actually building new poo poo, too bad it's all gotten so expensive  need another housing crash before I buy
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Janitor Prime posted:need another housing crash before I buy This. And I'm in loving Milwaukee where it's already cheap as gently caress (relative to proper cities).
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Sapozhnik posted:lol this thread, every time lol if you cant work remotely from where ever you want and live like a pauper and stack your figgies
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im stuck in the godawful dc area for personal/family reasons at the moment but i can live anywhere with my current gig which owns bones thinkin' of quitting and traveling (again  ) next year tho
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Sapozhnik posted:I've been to Minneapolis that's every large non-northeastern american city, as they all developed post 1950s white flight to the suburbs and have no culture/purpose besides holding office space and parking lots/garages downtown dallas is super lol, which is why they filmed robocop there
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all you 100% remote-work people better be real confident you aren't about to get outsourced to Bulgaria or whatever because there's a lot of really talented and extremely cheap labor out in that neck of the woods and personally i don't think i could handle working 100% remote without contemplating death because i'm a reclusive enough shut-in as it is  but that's just me
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Sapozhnik posted:all you 100% remote-work people better be real confident you aren't about to get outsourced to Bulgaria or whatever because there's a lot of really talented and extremely cheap labor out in that neck of the woods i agree 100% im 30ish miles away from the nearest office which i pop my head into usually once a week, but sometimes i go weeks at a time without showing up for whatever reason. constantly working from home gets mentally hosed up definitely not deluded enough into thinking im not replaceable because everyone else, but they keep throwing figgies at me so i guess im doing something right also im not a software developer thank god
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Wrath of the Bitch King posted:I'll take some stupidly high temperature over a Florida summer any goddamned day. its not that bad, as long as you dont do something stupid like live more than about 3 miles from the ocean. the difference between living here and somewhere like nc is that there is at least a breeze coming in from the gulf so the air doesnt just hang on you. winters are amazing here. dont get me wrong though, im moving back to the mountains and/or just buying a place there as soon as i get an opportunity
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Milwaukee is good, people never believe me and then they visit and go "huh, it's actually good". It's not that expensive to live in and it's got a lot of cool poo poo. You just have to deal with the rest of WI that isn't Madison or Green Bay (only for the Packers) existing.
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ThePeavstenator posted:Milwaukee is good, people never believe me and then they visit and go "huh, it's actually good". It's not that expensive to live in and it's got a lot of cool poo poo. You just have to deal with the rest of WI that isn't Madison or Green Bay (only for the Packers) existing. Green Bay is literally an on/off ramp, a lovely UW campus (somehow even worse than UWM  ) and Lambeau.That and a CVS full of people with a methamphetamine abuse disorder.
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Arcsech posted:actually what i really want to do is get a remote job and live wherever the gently caress i want I want to do this as well but I don't have anyone in my Network that does it and everything I read about it involves running an online store, ad revenue, and or coding. Maybe if I sell enough dish Network I can save up to buy an active online store.
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Sapozhnik posted:all you 100% remote-work people better be real confident you aren't about to get outsourced to Bulgaria or whatever because there's a lot of really talented and extremely cheap labor out in that neck of the woods or that your ceo doesn't get a bug up their rear end about ~agile collaboration~ and recall all the remote workers we lost some very good developers because of that little stunt
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ThePeavstenator posted:Milwaukee is good, people never believe me and then they visit and go "huh, it's actually good". It's not that expensive to live in and it's got a lot of cool poo poo. You just have to deal with the rest of WI that isn't Madison or Green Bay (only for the Packers) existing. milwaukee, like madison, really seems like it'd get boring after a while
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Sapozhnik posted:all you 100% remote-work people better be real confident you aren't about to get outsourced to Bulgaria or whatever because there's a lot of really talented and extremely cheap labor out in that neck of the woods Oh no no, I am the outsourced work. You see, your boss can pay me maybe 30% less than a bay area employee (and even a bunch less since the Canadian dollar is low), and I'll have more than twice as much money left as the bay area employees anyway, and will likely end up in the top 5% salaries of my area. I'll also work reasonably close to your boss's timezone or even the same one, speak the same language, and will be ready to travel on prem from time to time for cheaper than other outsourced work. The remote employee who lives out of major urban centers but within the country or continent is the premium outsourcing level. The Bulgarian employee is a few steps further. But more seriously, it's a cultural thing. Back at Heroku, over 50% of the engineering department was remote. Despite having the most expensive offices with all the perks, employee satisfaction was invariably greater for remote employees than on-prem one, albeit by reasonably small fraction. If you're the lone remote employee you're in for a real challenge, but if you're on a full team dedicated to it, it's not that different from OSS work in terms of dynamics. My current workplace is really all local. Like nobody (95% of employees) uses e-mail or chat except to tell people about headlights left on in the parking lot and it's a hell of a bigger challenge. Sapozhnik posted:and personally i don't think i could handle working 100% remote without contemplating death because i'm a reclusive enough shut-in as it is Yeah that's the big killer. You have to be a) okay with being lonely / having a healthy social network outside of work b) be good at self-discipline because you can't gently caress off and play videogames all day, and c) be good enough at self-discipline to enforce a good schedule and healthy life habits that won't lead to work and personal life melding together. They're mostly all tied together, but there's nothing worse for the remote worker than to work in underwear around the clock and forget their own life. Contrary to a lot of beliefs, remote workers tend to be working longer and unhealthier hours than local employees. It helps to keep a strict schedule, dress to work, etc.
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minivanmegafun posted:milwaukee, like madison, really seems like it'd get boring after a while i love Milwaukee and will move back when i retire or find 100% remote work. it's definitely a slower pace than somewhere like NY or sf though so it's not for everybody. if, however, you like sitting by a lake drinking beer or coffee and going to museums and concerts and baseball then Milwaukee is great.
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Schadenboner posted:Green Bay is literally an on/off ramp, a lovely UW campus (somehow even worse than UWM i mean we gotta put the packers somewhere
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MononcQc posted:It helps to keep a strict schedule, dress to work, etc. I also had mildly uncomfortable posture-correcting shirts I would wear as my office-work clothes, and took them off when I decided I was done working for the day. The experience felt similar to taking off uncomfortable shoes or a suit jacket.
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i enjoy interacting with other people in person at the office, so as long as i have an easy commute and i'm not stuck in some open-plan shithole i'm actually p. good with going to work most days
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i enjoy interacting with other people in person at the office, so as long as i have an easy commute and i'm not stuck in some open-plan shithole i'm actually p. good with going to work most days i'm the same, i like speaking to real people in a real setting. plus i don't like working alone in the place that i come home to relax in.
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i recognize that i have zero discipline and so although i have to option to work from home some days i usually don't also going to work is the only reason i would ever leave my house
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carry on then posted:or that your ceo doesn't get a bug up their rear end about ~agile collaboration~ and recall all the remote workers how was working for yahoo
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Everytime I ever worked in an office me and my cowkrkers chatted on aim or irc 80% of the time anyway (predates slack and hipchat). Going remote was pretty uneventful except the office coffee got wayyyyy better
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FamDav posted:how was working for yahoo lol im not part of that mess luckily
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My current job lets me work from home and I've exercised the option on occasion but there's no way I'm taking a fully remote job right now because there's like a 30% chance that I spend half my time jerking off thanks to Ritalin.
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Sapozhnik posted:I've been to Minneapolis downtown minneapolis is not where you go for nightlife aside from first avenue (or realistically, 7th st entry--gently caress the mainroom) or gay 90s i guess. it's mostly office buildings. all the fun stuff is in cedar-riverside, uptown, or breweries (which tend to be in more old industrial areas).
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Figgggies! Decided to make a career switch to Web Dev after returning home from Peace Corps and realizing I picked the wrong city for my previous experience. Two and a half years of on and off job searching, a low paying temp job, laid off from a contract position, another contract that didn't have a future, and now I'm making 360% what I made at my temp job. Feels good.
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ThePeavstenator posted:My current job lets me work from home and I've exercised the option on occasion but there's no way I'm taking a fully remote job right now because there's like a 30% chance that I spend half my time jerking off thanks to Ritalin. lol if you don't get paid to jack off
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:lol if you don't get paid to jack off
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:lol if you don't get paid to jack off sadly i only get the benefit of being paid to poo poo right now
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