Spain, in the mountains. I do coding and management which require only 'ok' internet and I for sure am more productive here working on my mountain view terras than in some office with other office views. When needed I fly to clients or partners or meetings for a few days and a few times a year I fly to partners and hang around for a month. I try to avoid offices so we usually meet in nature hotel lobbies, hotel lobbies in general or bars and restaurants to work or talk. Location does not matter a lot because if I have a phone or skype for meetings and something to write code and docs on, I am fine. Have been for 20+ years now.
Nice. I spent a year in Pamplona when I first started living abroad full time.
It's cool in that it's a nice medieval walled city with all the infrastructure to handle tons of tourists. But those tourists all come at once for San Fermin and the running of the bulls, then they leave. The rest of the year you and the locals get the whole city to yourself, with the little pipe band playing in the square at night and everybody out dancing, then making rounds of the tapas bars and such.
A really nice pace of life. For anybody who likes a walkable city and has the freedom to be anywhere, it's a good place to be.
Compared to most I guess it is both: highest village in this region and I live in a part from the village which has 40 people living in it: in winter less.
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Spain, in the mountains. I do coding and management which require only 'ok' internet and I for sure am more productive here working on my mountain view terras than in some office with other office views. When needed I fly to clients or partners or meetings for a few days and a few times a year I fly to partners and hang around for a month. I try to avoid offices so we usually meet in nature hotel lobbies, hotel lobbies in general or bars and restaurants to work or talk. Location does not matter a lot because if I have a phone or skype for meetings and something to write code and docs on, I am fine. Have been for 20+ years now.
Nice. I spent a year in Pamplona when I first started living abroad full time.
It's cool in that it's a nice medieval walled city with all the infrastructure to handle tons of tourists. But those tourists all come at once for San Fermin and the running of the bulls, then they leave. The rest of the year you and the locals get the whole city to yourself, with the little pipe band playing in the square at night and everybody out dancing, then making rounds of the tapas bars and such.
A really nice pace of life. For anybody who likes a walkable city and has the freedom to be anywhere, it's a good place to be.
I'm also in Spain. In the mountains do you mean as a more or less hermit or just somewhere really high altitude?
Compared to most I guess it is both: highest village in this region and I live in a part from the village which has 40 people living in it: in winter less.