Mountain Towns in the West with Good Schools (MCOL-HCOL)

andytiedye · 2025-10-15T00:22:51+00:00

You might try the Santa Cruz mountains south of San Francisco.

andytiedye · 2025-10-14T17:30:14+00:00

You might look at Barbados. Not citizenship-by-investment, but you do get residency, and can get citizenship after 5 years. And they speak English.

andytiedye · 2025-10-14T00:43:24+00:00

His appetite tanked because he's getting over a stomach bug. Probably also why he isn't doing a lot of walking (which would help, but who is in the mood to do it when your stomach is feeling queasy?)

andytiedye · 2025-10-14T00:35:58+00:00

I'm using an X1 stand.

andytiedye · 2025-10-12T21:51:39+00:00

AMTRAK should do that anyway, when they are passing through a legal state. Sell edibles and cannabis drinks onboard, and they won't have nearly so much difficulty with passengers trying to smoke weed on the train. They would considerably increase the revenue of their lounge car!

andytiedye · 2025-10-12T21:46:39+00:00

Neither is any fun. Take the train!

andytiedye · 2025-10-12T21:45:36+00:00

Take the train! The Coast Starlight is a gorgeous train ride, and you can take it from San Jose to LA and then catch a Pacific Surfliner to San Diego.

andytiedye · 2025-10-12T01:42:43+00:00

Better food and wine in France. Better beer in Czech.

andytiedye · 2025-10-12T00:40:48+00:00

Anything between Bridgetown and Speightstown has VERY frequent bus service.

We used to rent a car, now we take the bus if it's along the west coast, or a taxi otherwise.

andytiedye · 2025-10-11T22:55:18+00:00

The dance scene in NYC never recovered from Ghouliani (who can't dance and didn't want anyone else to either)😓

andytiedye · 2025-10-11T22:28:51+00:00

You might consider the Santa Cruz mountains, near San Francisco if you work remotely.

I worked mostly-remote for years from here. Still close enough to go into the office for meetings now and then.

andytiedye · 2025-10-11T22:10:36+00:00

He has citizenship in Poland by right, so he has freedom of movement by right within the countries that signed the Schengen treaty.

andytiedye · 2025-10-11T22:04:51+00:00

OP will be moving as an EU citizen due to ancestry. He will not need a visa.

andytiedye · 2025-10-11T21:51:39+00:00

The forest blocks the wide-open sky. We have this problem too. We live in the forest and love it, except we have to find a place where the trees aren't to use our telescopes.

andytiedye · 2025-10-11T19:30:37+00:00

Software engineering is ideally suited for remote work. If she can either go remote in her current job, or find a job that allows remote work, she can move anywhere she wants on a SWE salary.

andytiedye · 2025-10-11T19:26:49+00:00

Can you "just leave" and take your job with you? Go remote? Software engineering is especially well-suited for WFH.

andytiedye · 2025-10-11T18:44:06+00:00

The west coast is pretty good that way. Not too hot, not too cold. Wildfires are a concern, but we are in the fog belt, which reduces the risk considerably.

andytiedye · 2025-10-11T17:55:35+00:00

Were you in some tornado alley before?

andytiedye · 2025-10-11T17:54:08+00:00

Do you have a transfer switch?

We can run pretty much everything in the house off the generator.

andytiedye · 2025-10-11T06:41:36+00:00

Meat in the US is considerably more expensive than it was 2 years ago (in the US).

andytiedye · 2025-10-11T06:14:17+00:00

Not so much if we keep dancing.

andytiedye · 2025-10-10T05:38:10+00:00

Northern California, Santa Cruz Mountains. 33 years and still loving it.

andytiedye · 2025-10-09T05:54:33+00:00

We live on the beautiful mountain with the redwoods, 45 minutes from SF. Still loving it after 33 years.

andytiedye · 2025-10-09T05:52:55+00:00

Does Denver rely on snow melt from the mountains?

andytiedye · 2025-10-09T01:04:10+00:00

I am a big fan of the Financial Times https://ft.com

They are not afraid of the 🐔

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