Hi Steemit! I want to choose a new place to live :)!

Here's my full list of cities:

Buffalo

Buffalo is simply too economically depressed for life. While friends have told me that this is no longer the case and that the harbor is gorgeous, etc.... I think they're BSing, just like the Buffalo News does. My family is in Buffalo, so that's a big vote in its favor. Against it? Well, I have no idea how the hell I'd do anything work wise and most of the city at any given moment seems to be in a weed/alcohol induced coma when not at work.

Chicago

Chicago was actually a pretty decent place to live, BUT it is plagued with typical "America Problems." It has a high rate of violent crime, fueled by poverty (remember the problem is always poverty-- never inequality) and the traffic is atrocious. I don't feel like trading the sanity I've gained by being outside of the US'

Rome

Io crede che parlo italiano, pero no crede che parlo bene adesso: no ho parlato italiano tra 10 anni. Roma era una citta bella e brutta allo stesso tempo. Credo vorrei vide una altra citta nell italia-- un anno nella Roma es abbastanza.

Accra

Accra was a fantastic city in a fantastic and dynamic country. I'm sure that there are plenty of opporrtunities in Accra and in Ghana overall. This said, given what I have heard from some friends about the costs of living in Ghana full time as a non-Ghanian, I think I'll opt out at present.

Seoul

• Sadly Korea is not a country for those who are not Korean
• See point #1 re: Seoul
• Yongsan electronics market is cool. See point #1.

Shanghai Suburbs(Technically Taicang, Jiangsu-- saying Shanghai so people know the place I'm mentioning)

• Atrocious pollution
• Let's face it: China is an exciting place to live
• Let's face it: China offers a great quality of living at a very low price
• Let's face it: Chinese e-commerce is better than e-commerce anywhere else on earth and for me that constituted a hobby that became a career.
• Let's face it: there's no fucking Internet access in China

Shenzhen

• Shenzhen is the best city on planet earth
  • No, really, it is. Deal with it.
• I'd love to live in Shenzhen
• Let's face it: there's no fucking Internet access in China

Ho Chi Minh City

• South Vietnamese people are much more relaxed than North Vietnamese people
• If you relax, weather you're South Vietnamese or Nigerian, South Vietnamese people will artfully steal your phone
  • You will be pissed off, but at the same time amazed by the skill level
  • Try this on for size: TWO IN A WEEK!
• Very hot and humid
• Great motorcycling outside of the urban center
• Awesome summer thunderstorms
• Internet access is so-so due to Vietnam's AAG

Da Nang

• Da Nang is without a doubt the most picturesque city I've ever vistited.
  • Seriously.
• Behind Hanoi and HCMC in terms of "all things digital"
  • Crucially for me, this includes the talent pool :(
• Internet access is so-so due to Vietnam's AAG
• I spent 2 days motorcycling in Central Vietnam. WOW GORGEOUS!

Hanoi

As discussed with @rampant today....
Hanoi has some really great aspects:

• Hanoian people generally accept others at face value (and this is awesome)
• Hanoian people are future focused in that positive, practical communist way
• Hanoi itself is a beautiful chaos

And some not so great aspects

• Traffic in Hanoi shouldn't consist of as many cars as it does. Cars should be banned, motorcycles encouraged. It's the only way to scale this city.
• Hanoian startups are government-orchestrated in that negative, impractical communist way.
• Air quality is so-so
• Internet access is so-so due to Vietnam's AAG

....so it is perfectly possible that I might just stay in Hanoi. I don't know though.

Where should I go next?

• @rampant is headed to Ukraine, which sounds exciting, but maybe a bit too unstable? Frankly I'll be waiting for his report.
• @fyrstikken mentions happiness and relative freedom in Peru
• @randyclemens mentions that New Hampshire is full of like-minded folks, doing like-minded things, and smoking pot on the state capital steps (and not getting arrested, which speaks volumes of good about NH)
  "OTHERRANDOMPEOPLE" Have mentioned that Chile is awesome
• @menta mentions that Cambodia is pretty great, too, but also mentioned something about a 10MBPS internet line, while I try to keep myself at a minimum of 45MBPS fiber redundant from separate ISPs converging on a single MPTCP proxy in the cloud for maximum awesome.
• @mystictot mentions that delhi rocks, and has interesting electronics markets, which focus too heavily on imports from the manufacturing giant to the northeast.
• "ANOTHERREALITY" is that Hong Kong is pretty great in terms of opportunity, but pretty much shattered in terms of a society. Ask a HKer sometime.
• @razvanelulmarin and google confirm that the interwebs in Romania are ludicrously cheap and fast and that nearly everyone speaks English and thus recommends:
  • CLUJ
  • Bucharest

What kinds of places do I consider great?

• Fastest possible internet
• Lowest possible rent while maintaining fastest possible Internet and relatively stable electricity and connectivity
• a local tech culture
• a future oriented local culture
• awesomeness
• a general lack of regulation of people's lives, and a lack of acceptance of regulation on the part of the people

@faddat would love to hear your advice :)! It's an enormous and beautiful planet!