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sebastiangraefon The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal

Also Bangkok, total renters market. New buildings going up every day. Lots of rents are lower than before covid.

sebastiangraefon Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?

Plays some kind of role for sure but there are barely any local developer who work for a company abroad like it's common in Eastern Europe or other places (not counting foreign remote workers).

sebastiangraefon Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?

"There's good talent in Thailand as well. RIP my friend the Thai data/cloud principal eng banking 14k USD."

Don't know from when this is but tech salaries in Thailand are much higher and it's hard to find people.

This would be fresh grad level at most.

sebastiangraefon TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe falter

The constant "invasion, invasion, invasion" whenever Taiwan is mentioned somewhere on the internet also plays into China's hand.

sebastiangraefon AMA: Ivan Kutskir, creator of Photopea

He is also building an asset which he can sell.

sebastiangraefon Ask HN: How are Digital Nomads coping with travel restrictions?

I'm in Taiwan since March on the 90 days visa exemption. It's already extended to 300 days by now. Completely normal, corona-free life here so I'll definitely stay for now.

sebastiangraefon Randomized Living

I basically quit my job without income and got freelance clients after traveling for a while. That might be not everyone's cup of tea so probably better to get that sorted before leaving. There are quite a lot of fully remote jobs now but tons of competition and mostly "US only". Freelancing is probably the fastest way to get remote income. Best is to have some kind of retainer deal for x/month in my opinion, instead of always hunting new projects. SaaS or any kind of online business is more of a long term play.

sebastiangraefon Randomized Living

For sure. I've been living a nomadic life for three years now, not randomized because I prefer picking my locations myself but I could do that. Good passport, so this problem doesn't apply to me. But I've also met plenty enough Indian or Filipino nomads in Asia. If you got the remote income stream then you can solve the visa problems.

sebastiangraefon How to form a California LLC without a lawyer

Yes, even as a non-resident including getting a bank account. Extremely easy and cheap too, in other states at least.

sebastiangraefon Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name

He has onions.com

sebastiangraefon An art dealer disappeared with $50M. 17 years later a documentary crew found him

Probably way higher chance of just getting abducted.

sebastiangraefon Facebook adds corrective label on user's post under new Singapore fake news law

Nothing with my Singapore VPN location either.

sebastiangraefon Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed

Tinder already does stuff like this https://www.help.tinder.com/hc/en-us/articles/360029087891-S...

sebastiangraefon Have a personal web site

Curated online presence > no online presence > bad online presence imho.

That includes personal website and social media.