[Xyra]

I mean I've been living off of $1700/month for a while in Berkeley. I have been trying hard the last 6 weeks to raise angel investment, and am moving to Thailand in a few days to have more breathing room (and change things up to untie some emotional knots and try to make sure I'm positioned to vibe-engineer as well as possible over the next few months).

[arjie]

You don't have any personal contact information on your website or on your Hacker News profile. For a tiny check size, I can be an angel. Contact in profile. Would you like to meet before you leave? I think you shouldn't move out of the Bay Area.

[Xyra]

That sounds great, thanks, I emailed you.

[davidzweig]

I've got some idle servers in my basement in Bulgaria with lots of GPUS. I'm actually in Cambodia at the moment. I've actually been playing with some similar ideas. Message me if you like. :)

[gregw2]

Thailand is a dark place. Beware!

There are a lot of other low cost countries out there!

[alpb]

It's literally the digital nomad heaven. What's dark about it?

[gregw2]

Fair.

I acknowledge "dark" is a judgemental term... but the mix of extreme poverty, extreme relative wealth, and the blind eye towards the sex trade is... dark.

Such misery is not unique to Thailand but you may find it more open, deeply rooted, in your face palpable, or covert-in-troubling-ways.

If you are doing serious dev work of a leveragable nature, I would also be6 thoughtful about how to protect one's innovations in a heavenly land adjacent to China, full of friendly Russian expat hackers post-Ukraine-sanctions, with my hinkiness detectors already overwhelmed by cross cultural signals of a new environment.

I could try to sell you on the merits of low cost of living for English-speaking software hackers in other places like Vietnam or the Phillipines but have to remind myself you aren't asking for that and all I really have is anecdotes and observations anyways and so much of our options and choices are shaped by circumstances and personal tradeoffs. I wouldn't do it but I am me, not you. Good luck!