Alright now that I shared my awesome new job, I can finally share with you how moving abroad is going.
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@marcel I have 🥲 (sorry). Claude really wants me to move to Girona, Bilbao, Trieste or Liguria.
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It doesn't help that I'm a snobby little Goldilocks that is searching for a place that feels "just right" based on:
- sunny and coastal
- green nature
- access to outdoor sports
- a tech community around
- an expat community that is not retirees
- generally educated populace around
- indoor sports such as a bouldering hall, crossfit gym and yoga studio
- able to buy a house with a garden for max €500k.
- within 1.5 hrs of an international airport
- mountains would be cool@Gina Slovenia might have some spots that tick these boxes?
Also, it will never suck more than moving houses does, because if it does... You can just move houses again. So the risk of taking the leap is limited.
And who knows? Maybe you'll end up with newfound appreciation of the Netherlands?
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@albertcardona I'm going to Girona this Friday!!
Edit: I'm viewing houses around Girona, in Platja D'Aro and outside of Barcelona. Barcelona itself is way too big and busy for me (plus I don't want to contribute to the insane housing crisis there), so hopefully Girona is nice.
Girona's coast suffers a lot from tourism from April to October, but the towns just offset from the coast offer much comfort. Among these, don't miss Pals, Sant Pere Pescador, and L'Armentera. But if directly on the coast, I'd go for L'Estartit or Sant Feliu de Guíxols.
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@Gina Slovenia might have some spots that tick these boxes?
Also, it will never suck more than moving houses does, because if it does... You can just move houses again. So the risk of taking the leap is limited.
And who knows? Maybe you'll end up with newfound appreciation of the Netherlands?
@VincentTunru lol that would be hilarious. But then I'd live in Drenthe or Limburg.
Edit: also yes, Slovenia looks awesome. Very green and mountainous.
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@marcel I have 🥲 (sorry). Claude really wants me to move to Girona, Bilbao, Trieste or Liguria.
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@manfredzielinski except that they're big cities where it's hard to find a somewhat affordable house with a garden 🥲 Also Valencia, while beautiful, is insanely humid. Loved Malaga though, but it feels very far away from mainland Europe, where I still have to travel to quite a bit.
@Gina @manfredzielinski in land from Málaga, in the direction of Coín, is also nice
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A lot of this is contradictory as well.
I.e. wanting green nature around while having debilitating hay fever. Wanting a tech community around while not wanting to live in a big city. Able to buy a house with a garden for max €500k while close to an international airport
️Basically I want Bern without winter and hay fever, but it also has to be affordable. Sigh.
You know what else doesn't help? Italy
being beautiful, but every Italian expat in Amsterdam that I've ever met saying they hate it and that they would never recommend anyone to move there 🥲On the other hand, Spain
is awesome but has an insane housing crisis atm. Also unbearably hot in most places. -
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You know what else doesn't help? Italy
being beautiful, but every Italian expat in Amsterdam that I've ever met saying they hate it and that they would never recommend anyone to move there 🥲On the other hand, Spain
is awesome but has an insane housing crisis atm. Also unbearably hot in most places.@Gina Scotland's nice and, the way things are trending, likely to get nicer
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You know what else doesn't help? Italy
being beautiful, but every Italian expat in Amsterdam that I've ever met saying they hate it and that they would never recommend anyone to move there 🥲On the other hand, Spain
is awesome but has an insane housing crisis atm. Also unbearably hot in most places.If concerned about temperatures, consider Camprodon (Girona) and nearby.
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@Gina You will certainly choose wrong, because no place is perfect.
Some are ok though. For a while.
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A lot of this is contradictory as well.
I.e. wanting green nature around while having debilitating hay fever. Wanting a tech community around while not wanting to live in a big city. Able to buy a house with a garden for max €500k while close to an international airport
️Basically I want Bern without winter and hay fever, but it also has to be affordable. Sigh.
@Gina Bern and <500K would have been a challenge.
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Okay so, I'm still not 100% sure whether I'm making the right choice. I always thought I'd end up in a nice farm house in France, but because of tax reasons France is not an option. And because of weather reasons the whole of Northern Europe isn't an option
So it basically comes down to Spain
or Italy. Edit: I'm staying in Europe to minimise timezone differences. #moveabroad
@Gina The area of "Campo de Turia" is nice, and near Valencia in Spain. Small towns but around 25km from the city and close to the airport
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It doesn't help that I'm a snobby little Goldilocks that is searching for a place that feels "just right" based on:
- sunny and coastal
- green nature
- access to outdoor sports
- a tech community around
- an expat community that is not retirees
- generally educated populace around
- indoor sports such as a bouldering hall, crossfit gym and yoga studio
- able to buy a house with a garden for max €500k.
- within 1.5 hrs of an international airport
- mountains would be cool@Gina If a lot of us pool our resources, maybe we can start a new tech community somewhere nice
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@Gina If a lot of us pool our resources, maybe we can start a new tech community somewhere nice
@elricofmelnibone ooh lets go to one of the abandoned villages in Italy!
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Okay so, I'm still not 100% sure whether I'm making the right choice. I always thought I'd end up in a nice farm house in France, but because of tax reasons France is not an option. And because of weather reasons the whole of Northern Europe isn't an option
So it basically comes down to Spain
or Italy. Edit: I'm staying in Europe to minimise timezone differences. #moveabroad
@Gina the north of Spain is awesome and feels like the perfect balance in terms of weather and nature
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It doesn't help that I'm a snobby little Goldilocks that is searching for a place that feels "just right" based on:
- sunny and coastal
- green nature
- access to outdoor sports
- a tech community around
- an expat community that is not retirees
- generally educated populace around
- indoor sports such as a bouldering hall, crossfit gym and yoga studio
- able to buy a house with a garden for max €500k.
- within 1.5 hrs of an international airport
- mountains would be cool@Gina Galicia or Basque Country should fit that description for the most part. I'm totally biased but check out A Coruña
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@Gina the north of Spain is awesome and feels like the perfect balance in terms of weather and nature
@ryzokuken I'm considering visiting Bilbao and San Sebastian in september. Does it really rain all the time there? 🥲
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Milton Keynes looking ever more attractive, I imagine.
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You know what else doesn't help? Italy
being beautiful, but every Italian expat in Amsterdam that I've ever met saying they hate it and that they would never recommend anyone to move there 🥲On the other hand, Spain
is awesome but has an insane housing crisis atm. Also unbearably hot in most places.@Gina Italy has been experiencing levels of emigration similar to the late 1800s and early 1900s waves (I am also an Italian emigrant), for at least a decade.
The press and politics seem to refuse to mention it, but... the Italians that can, go away (not all, but... many).
(my info/numbers might be old/wrong, willing to hear otherwise by anyone that is better informed. Anecdotally, I know serveral that moved abroad just in my circle of friends, unrelated to my job)
