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My library-card costs 8€ a year and I can work there all day long in a nice quite environment. Internet is free, so are beverages. It also has a streaming-service and I can rent consoles and such there as well. I dont understand why someone would pay 600€ a month just for a desk to work at
$2000/mo in the midwest would rent a house, if you're just going to work remote anyway.
$800 mortgage for a house in the Midwest here. Nice house too.
What apr is that% no chance its the 6-7% that's the norm now. But good for you for locking it it when it was low!
There are small towns with reasonable internet providers that still have houses for under $100k, sometimes well under, so yes, that's possible. Not necessarily towns in the middle of nowhere, either.
Idk what APR our mortgage is, because it's actually our father in law who got it, but ours is $550/month in the Midwest.
Property taxes keep going up each year though. We're paying a few thousand a year now.
Not nice people though.
it's like paying for a gun to shoot yourself with
it's like *renting a gun to shoot yourself with
Smart move, what are they gonna do, charge late fees?
It's just where he lives. All the things he pays for is more than what I pay for a 4 bedroom 2 living room house, fuel for my vehicles and water bill, that allows me to wash clothes whenever needed. You'll hear how expensive shit is mostly from city dwellers. They live packed in with millions, competing for the same housing and jobs, and think you're ignorant or a dullard for not wanting the same things they do.
I don't think that's fair
If I could go live out in the woods by myself with my dog I'd love to do it. As it is I've moved out to a pretty rural area of my state because I hate living in the city.
However, prices are still pretty damn high out here, I just get a bit more space. On the other hand I have to go into work once every two weeks, and starting in a few months, I'll have to go in 3 days a week. Driving in with traffic takes anywhere between 2 and 3 hours. But finding a job in my field closer to me is next to.impossible. so a lot of people live in the city, and chose to live in small hutches with 3 or 4 roommates. A lot of them would leave if they could too.
I encourage this because the more people who think this way the fewer people will want to live out in the boonies which means less light and noise pollution and no NIMBYs whining about the way my pigs smell.
I'd kill to live out in the boonies. But it's hard to find a job out there if you're in certain fields, or a rental. Unless you can afford to buy, you can't live in the country. I live in the suburbs and my rent is still insane. I'm trying to pivot to a better paying career where I can work remotely, but I can't do that overnight. Trust me, I hate living where I can hear people. All I want is to someday be able to walk outside into my own damned yard and not stare someone else in the face, but I have neither a yard nor privacy.
The only thing that might be prohibitive is meetings or calls. But lots of libraries have little meeting rooms for you to be a bit louder in.
It's €pe, not the land of "free"(as in being dead). For me municipal library is 0₽, city library 0₽ and State Library that has every single book published in country also 0₽, but you have to be in right city.
And in Europe libraries are homes of knowledge, not warehouses of books. What is legal in Europe will get Internet Archive in trouble in the USA.
Last time i used library internet was a couple years ago, €4,50 for 15 minutes and on their outdated computers that do everything is slow as possible.
It took 14 minutes to print a single sided page from a government website.
Right? This guy is really not smart if he's paying $600 a month for a desk. He could go to a Starbucks everyday and spend $10 in food each day, and it would still be half the price to sit at a table and use wifi.
Hell, I'm pretty sure he could buy a desk and have it delivered to him for less than $600.
One library an hour away across town by Uber cuz dude has no car or we work right down the block probably.