Oh my god guys/girls! Just came back from a party in Manila to see my project on the top of PH! So amazing and appreciate this :) @rrhoover I was very inspired by the PH design for this actually, I hope you don't mind! I think this is the future of working and this might help people make a better decision on where to move to temporarily/permanently.
@levelsio Remote Working Hunt rocks :)
And of course we don't mind! It's not like we didn't take inspiration from others before us (e.g. Hacker News, reddit, Digg). Well done.
@levelsio I still remember your old blog post about people breaking into your vacation home, while home. It inspired me to get paranoid about redundant backups in physically separate locations, especially while traveling... Also, it's great that you built in local english speaking and safety ratings for those of us looking to leave our comfort zones.
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To say it is useful is an understatement. Community rating on the quality of the data for every city would be nice.
My wife and I have discussed moving to SE Asia at some point in the future. This is a great resource to fantasize for a while ;) I would also suggest that you consider adding the Economic Freedom Index (http://www.heritage.org/index/ra...) or the Human Freedom Index (http://www.freetheworld.com/huma...).
I love this! Added a couple of locations to the spreadsheet and will surely check back for inspiration.
Also, there should be a column for "average flight price". That's how we decide where to go for month-long workaways (open up Kayak Explorer, find the cheapest flight in the world, and book there), because it's a big piece of the budget.
@levelsio I realise that I'm late to the thread – but love the concept!
We’re currently working from our 4th continent in the last couple of years (aiming for all 7 some day!) and intend to relocate again in 2015... so this is a real gold mine of inspiration! Here are a few quick thoughts for making it even more of an awesome resource.
1) Have you thought about getting in touch with Derek Sivers (@sivers) at all? He's created a series of really awesome crowdsourced Asian Entrepreneurial guides (http://woodegg.com/) and might be interested in collaborating?
2) Drop @Bowei a line – he set up the excellent http://www.worldstartupwiki.org/ and I’m sure would also love to bounce ideas around too.
3) I’d love to see some functionality that let’s the community ‘Choose Your Own Startup Adventure’ – expanding on the criteria that you’ve already included and allow for greater serendipitous discovery of new locations based on the criteria that you enter (the team at http://teleport.org are building something like this also I believe).
4) I notice you are considering building a mobile app too. I once built an iOS app called ‘Alakazam’ – the concept was just to enter your budget and nearest airport and it then scraped the Skyscanner API to show all of the places that you could afford to get to that weekend as darts on a map (screenshot: http://bit.ly/1qQemyl) If you shook your phone it would pick one for you and send you to the booking page ;) Would be awesome to see a digital nomad version of this!
Keep up the great work!
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