Post by @stani • Hey
What a great read about choosing where to live while you're young and ambitious http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html thanks for the recommendation @cordt.
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- The great thing about essays from Paul Graham is, they're pretty much evergreen. Could be 10 years old, still as good as on day one.
Quite a breath of fresh air compared to all those fomo inducing, attention grabbing thread people (on twitter).
- Thinking a lot about this recently...a vibrant city with easy nature escapes seems perfect. Where would this be ?
- Interesting! I noticed a big shift in my creativity when I moved from NY to Nashville. In NY, the classical music scene feels very stiff while in Nashville it’s fluid. I’ve felt so much freer to experiment in Nashville (and it doesn’t hurt that it’s called Music City 😄).
- I'm already living this.
I went down the rabbit hole of DAOs while at the same time, I moved from Viña del Mar and Santiago, Chile (500K and 8M people cities) to very small town of 15K people in Italy.
For two years, I made new frens first in web3 then in my physical space, and now I travel around the world to meet them at ETH events.
I wouldn't change my physical space for anything, it's beautiful and calm, and it's a good place to receive frens when they come over back to visit 🙂
- Good read!
- What an informative post, 2008 is quite old but still, lot of really good information, thanks @stani.lens
- Very thoughtfully written. Wonder why Cambridge and not New Haven, for example, but that’s semantics. The evesdropping part blew me away, brilliant. Wonder what the Europeans and anyone else outside of the US would say though.
- i also think like that
- I think everyone is on the same page
- I’ll choose the physical world over the virtual one. This days we are losing touch of what the physical community is. We tend to talk more to people virtually than physically 😫
- This should have been the new Twitter logo.