Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
Moscow or Saint Petersburg. I&#x27;m ethnically Sri Lankan, born and educated in Toronto and I&#x27;ve spent quite a bit of time in the Bay Area, but I&#x27;ve become disillusioned with the West. It just amazes my friends that you can live a comfortable middle-class life in Russia on $800 per month. But aside from being cheap, I just feel like it&#x27;s a place of great opportunity and future power. There&#x27;s that immense energy of Russian patriotism, determined to &quot;stick it&quot; to a world that has sanctioned them. The vibe I get in Russia now is what I imagine it must&#x27;ve been like to strike it out in America in the 60s. There&#x27;s definitely a place for the young, broke, lonely and bold. And unlike China or other rising Asian economies, it has that strictly European lifestyle that I love - a baroque Old World appreciation of the fine arts that is now lost on the West.