Hi Steemit! I want to choose a new place to live :)!
Here's my full list of cities:
Buffalo
Buffalo is simply too economically depressed for life. While friends have told me that this is no longer the case and that the harbor is gorgeous, etc.... I think they're BSing, just like the Buffalo News does. My family is in Buffalo, so that's a big vote in its favor. Against it? Well, I have no idea how the hell I'd do anything work wise and most of the city at any given moment seems to be in a weed/alcohol induced coma when not at work.
Chicago
Chicago was actually a pretty decent place to live, BUT it is plagued with typical "America Problems." It has a high rate of violent crime, fueled by poverty (remember the problem is always poverty-- never inequality) and the traffic is atrocious. I don't feel like trading the sanity I've gained by being outside of the US'
Rome
Io crede che parlo italiano, pero no crede che parlo bene adesso: no ho parlato italiano tra 10 anni. Roma era una citta bella e brutta allo stesso tempo. Credo vorrei vide una altra citta nell italia-- un anno nella Roma es abbastanza.
Accra
Accra was a fantastic city in a fantastic and dynamic country. I'm sure that there are plenty of opporrtunities in Accra and in Ghana overall. This said, given what I have heard from some friends about the costs of living in Ghana full time as a non-Ghanian, I think I'll opt out at present.
Seoul
- Sadly Korea is not a country for those who are not Korean
- See point #1 re: Seoul
- Yongsan electronics market is cool. See point #1.
Shanghai Suburbs(Technically Taicang, Jiangsu-- saying Shanghai so people know the place I'm mentioning)
- Atrocious pollution
- Let's face it: China is an exciting place to live
- Let's face it: China offers a great quality of living at a very low price
- Let's face it: Chinese e-commerce is better than e-commerce anywhere else on earth and for me that constituted a hobby that became a career.
- Let's face it: there's no fucking Internet access in China
Shenzhen
- Shenzhen is the best city on planet earth
- No, really, it is. Deal with it.
- I'd love to live in Shenzhen
- Let's face it: there's no fucking Internet access in China
Ho Chi Minh City
- South Vietnamese people are much more relaxed than North Vietnamese people
- If you relax, weather you're South Vietnamese or Nigerian, South Vietnamese people will artfully steal your phone
- You will be pissed off, but at the same time amazed by the skill level
- Try this on for size: TWO IN A WEEK!
- Very hot and humid
- Great motorcycling outside of the urban center
- Awesome summer thunderstorms
- Internet access is so-so due to Vietnam's AAG
Da Nang
- Da Nang is without a doubt the most picturesque city I've ever vistited.
- Seriously.
- Behind Hanoi and HCMC in terms of "all things digital"
- Crucially for me, this includes the talent pool :(
- Internet access is so-so due to Vietnam's AAG
- I spent 2 days motorcycling in Central Vietnam. WOW GORGEOUS!
Hanoi
As discussed with 
Hanoi has some really great aspects:
- Hanoian people generally accept others at face value (and this is awesome)
- Hanoian people are future focused in that positive, practical communist way
- Hanoi itself is a beautiful chaos
And some not so great aspects
- Traffic in Hanoi shouldn't consist of as many cars as it does. Cars should be banned, motorcycles encouraged. It's the only way to scale this city.
- Hanoian startups are government-orchestrated in that negative, impractical communist way.
- Air quality is so-so
- Internet access is so-so due to Vietnam's AAG
....so it is perfectly possible that I might just stay in Hanoi. I don't know though.
Where should I go next?
mentions happiness and relative freedom in Peru
mentions that New Hampshire is full of like-minded folks, doing like-minded things, and smoking pot on the state capital steps (and not getting arrested, which speaks volumes of good about NH)
"OTHERRANDOMPEOPLE" Have mentioned that Chile is awesomementions that Cambodia is pretty great, too, but also mentioned something about a 10MBPS internet line, while I try to keep myself at a minimum of 45MBPS fiber redundant from separate ISPs converging on a single MPTCP proxy in the cloud for maximum awesome.
mentions that delhi rocks, and has interesting electronics markets, which focus too heavily on imports from the manufacturing giant to the northeast.
- "ANOTHERREALITY" is that Hong Kong is pretty great in terms of opportunity, but pretty much shattered in terms of a society. Ask a HKer sometime.
and google confirm that the interwebs in Romania are ludicrously cheap and fast and that nearly everyone speaks English and thus recommends:
- CLUJ
- Bucharest
What kinds of places do I consider great?
- Fastest possible internet
- Lowest possible rent while maintaining fastest possible Internet and relatively stable electricity and connectivity
- a local tech culture
- a future oriented local culture
- awesomeness
- a general lack of regulation of people's lives, and a lack of acceptance of regulation on the part of the people
