Show HN: Northidaho.io

2 points by sirjonathan 5 years ago | 2 comments

Hey y'all! I've been working from home for 10 years now and I can't imagine trading it back for office life. Today I work at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, and WooCommerce and being a fully distributed company we can live wherever we'd like.

My wife and I with our two kids have been calling North Idaho home for the past 9 years. We love it here and I'd love to see more of y'all moving out this way!

I started a side project (https://NorthIdaho.io) to help more folks move to the area. I'm starting out by curating a weekly list of rental properties. It's free, with no catch. I'm also offering a premium version for those in a hurry and looking for a bit of extra help.

I'd love to know what y'all think and also happy to answer any questions you have about North Idaho living.

ev1 5 years ago | |

Do you have any specific list of ISPs, mobile carriers (average hotspot performance, 5G availability, LTE speeds), etc that would work best? I'd imagine this is critical for many WFHers/remote.

I'd need a minimum of 2 Gbps symmetrical to be able to do any work remotely (video, encoding, large binary files, Perforce, etc.) and a promise of "maybe Starlink in the future" would make it a catastrophic bankrupting move.