Asklemmy

43781 readers

812 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

194

Looking for suggestions for a place to move in the US as a remote employee (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

186 comments fedilink hide all child comments

So the work I do is 100% remote now. I moved to Southern California because of an industry that has in part moved to remote work. My only requirements are a temperate climate, nature access and hopefully a blue-ish state. Is there a place out there that makes sense financially? I’m hoping to buy a house less then 500k. I don’t need access to large cities as I honestly don’t do anything. The only requirement I can think of is access to solid internet as I stream full screen video for what I do.

I’m currently looking at Michigan and Virginia as options.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NM has what you're looking for; cost of living is very low, you can kind of pick the climate you want. We're also blue as a twitter check-mark. We're not super-diverse though; mostly white and Mexican descent depending on where you hang your hat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does NM stand for?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

New Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for answering them.. but I have to say I had a good laugh at people not knowing NM. It makes sense though, if people don't know the name well maybe not many people have driven up prices there yet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol. Not even a minute after I answered that, I was stumped by someone saying MD. Took me a minute to remember Maryland exists. Also there's a large part of the population that hears New Mexico and assumes that since it has Mexico in the name it can't possibly be a state in the US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you find 7 mins to kill and havent heard/seen the gary gulman stand up about abbreviating the states it's pretty good.

https://youtu.be/ocjTsBH_nYM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well I'm coming from Europe, we don't hear abbrevations of US states very often ;)