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That's a region that's totally unknown to me, but a great example of a specific place and a clear why. Thanks for sharing!

Boredness due to poor teaching by the teacher

Same reason people are on their phone in meetings

I’m always surprised we adults seem to have this feeling of superiority that we know how to use these things and teenagers don’t.

But we don’t know how to use them, we catch ourselves scrolling unaware, we use them in front of our children, in meetings when we’re bored, at restaurants…

Telling children not to use them while we do it at all inappropriate times is pure hypocrisy. If anything we should teach them (and ourselves) how to use them responsibly from early age onwards.

I had that once with an airline, customer rep made promises and afterwards they refused

Coincidentally the audio recording of the conversation was apparently deleted …

Especially once we have ai lawyers ;)

Yes, resonates! I don’t get focus time at home, most probably because I don’t define my own boundaries well enough towards my spouse and kids. Calls are a clear boundary for them. I work in a coworking now to avoid solving the boundaries problem.

I believe a rule of thumb is that ceiling fans can reduce perceived temperatures by 5 C, so definitely not sufficient above a certain temperature.

Source: other people, so not very reliable

Edit: the click-through link actually mentions 3-8 degrees

Mostly due to inertia, we were already in Bangkok, Phuket was close by. The alternative was Bali. We have a cat and felines don't move so easily within Asia.

We're looking for similar places in EU or US timezones, but - contrary to information for digital nomads - it's hard to find information about good places to live as a family...

I haven't lived in America so I can't compare, but compared to Europe, Thailand to a certain extent feels like Southern Europe, eg Portugal, Spain, Italy IMO. Not only the weather, also efficiency, organisation, less focus on families, ...

Or Dutch

I also mostly give 5 star reviews, but haven’t experienced this.

For me Google Reviews are a top make or breakpoint when deciding a hotel. I can imagine other people doing the same Hence there is an incentive for hotels to game the system

I recently moved to Phuket and many very mediocre hotels (or plain shabby hotels) get very high ratings (4.5+) and very positive reviews. Hotel competition is cut throat here so hotels definitely have an incentive to game the system.

TLDR Maybe Google notices fraud and is trying to solve in a clunky way

In Belgium on the Albert Canal (a big canal for Belgium but nothing compared to Panama Canal) they started installing pomps 15 years ago for the exact same reason.

This looks to me as the correct problem indeed. Inevitably you'll start pumping up salt water eventually.

I need this for flights, not for the sun, but I somehow always have fomo when having to choose between left and right side of the plane on the seat selection screen

Surprised it actually still needs a pilot, although they do mention it can save previously flown routes, not sure how much that automates flying the same route over and over again?

As a white water kayaker i believe we’ve killed a lot of rivers with our construction in and around them, especially in the European Alps

Obviously I’m biased to say this as these constructions also prevent me doing my favorite sport in many places

Off-topic: there is a “wtf” domain extension?!

Thanks, I couldn’t recall a Turkish Airlines plane crashing in 2021 so this is helpful!

I initially thought this question was whether Twitter is the right platform for me

Then I figured it's about whether it's actually working right now

Probably cryptocurrency

I did, it’s somewhere way below

Depends on the time you intend to work on it. The 12 startups in 12 months forces to ship something every month which makes it very effective to focus.

“7 principles for making marriage work” had a couple of new insights for me

Not sure if correlated to happiness, but I wonder if we can measure the % of population who gives a f** in a country.

In some countries people seem totally disconnected and frustrated (France, Italy come to mind), in others people feel a personal responsibility to make their country a success (Scandinavian countries come to mind)

That to me seems a better indicator for the future

Buenos Aires has been on my list.

I have never been there so I don't know but in general I feel big cities are not an ideal place with children, we prefer to live in a house, with a garden, and (ideally) close to the beach.

I think the beaches in BA are a 4 hour drive?

The plan is to stay 5 years in the same place.

I feel more a nomad, rather than an expat. Expats are imo paid by their company to go work in some other place (full expenses paid). Nomads make their own choices. But it seems most of the world has a different interpretation.

Maybe I'll adopt the "slowmad" title.

That was more or less my idea. Having a base to fall back on in Northwestern Europe close to family, and a place we actually live either in Southern Europe or (income allowing) Asia or South America.

Which multiple locations did you choose?

Those were the type of answers I was looking for, thanks for sharing!

I've been looking into Mauritius as well. My gut feel told me it's kinda a "sleepy island" rather than a bustling destination for expats. If I remember correctly one of the indicators was the lack of highly regarded international schools. It's a combo of superficial research and gut feel so I might be wrong here.

Switzerland has been high on my bucket list!

Two things hold me back:

1. Seems purchasing a house starts at around 1 million usd, even somewhere in the middle of nowhere 2. It's so safe and organised, my kiddos would grow up too untroubled and carefree :D !

Could have been it. I work and live in Thailand so it’s always hot, but might have Ben sitting outside more