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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 21
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      Considering moving to Ventura 🤔

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 21
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      Populations of cities I’ve lived in (or in metro areas thereof) Ann Arbor: 114k Austin: 950k Ithaca: 31k <— cheapest, happiest Rochester, NY 208k Washington, DC 640k Las Vegas: 640k Seattle: 725k Los Angeles: 4m Hmm... small-town life allure going up again

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 21
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      Really beginning to question why I should live in big cities, especially given that need to travel for consulting work is likely to crash long term due to covid. Proximity to good airports used to be a big factor for me. I don’t see that bouncing back anytime soon.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 21
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          Considering it. Checking out some options this week.

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        1. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jun 21
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          I don't know. I could imagine in 2-3 years it being fully back post vaccine and some time to reacclimate

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        1. Soham Sankaran‏ @sohamsankaran Jun 21
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          Yeah, the pandemic made a lot of Ithaca's disadvantages irrelevant just as I left.

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        2. Sam Bhagwat‏ @calcsam Jun 21
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          Why Ventura in particular? What are you optimizing for? Lots of really beautiful small-town CA in NorCal with better weather, eg join @markmaxham in Mendocino. also note that all the small towns you highlight are college towns. which would suggest something like eg Chico

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 21
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          I don’t optimize, I pick by gut feel among competing impulses

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        1. Dexter Dethmers‏ @DexterDethmers Jun 21
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          I live in Ventura county. Low population density, lots to do outdoors, lower sales and property tax, cheaper housing per square ft

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        1. Stephen Bronstein‏ @sbb Jun 22
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          Esp for the next 2-3 years, seems like suburban / small town / rural life has lots of advantages (assuming fast internet of course).

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        1. Joseph Espinosa‏ @Jespinos3 Jun 22
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          Surprised Ithaca was cheapest, isn’t NY among the highest cost of living states in the country, as well as among the highest taxes? Even given the fact it’s a smaller city/town I would imagine it’s still quite expensive.

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          LA is really more the 18 M so cal megaregion with zillions of little small towns sprinkled

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