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@iain_bryson

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After a decade at Microsoft, I reinvented myself in 2014 as a digital nomad/remote worker. Now I build full stack web & native apps, mostly in Rails, JS/TS and occasionally Swift & Python.
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158,459

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6%

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12

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 23 Oct '203mo11 Jan11 Jan
23 Oct '20

Canggu, Bali

29°C
Indonesia
 
 10 Aug '202mo23 Oct '2023 Oct '20
10 Aug '20

Seattle, WA

23°C
United States
 
 3 Jul '201mo10 Aug '2010 Aug '20
3 Jul '20

Jemez Springs

United States
 
 9 Jan '206mo3 Jul '203 Jul '20
9 Jan '20

Seattle, WA

9°C
United States
2019
 10 Dec '191mo9 Jan '209 Jan '20
10 Dec '19

Mexico City

20°C
Mexico
 
 25 Nov '1915d10 Dec '1910 Dec '19
25 Nov '19

Oaxaca

23°C
Mexico
2017
 2 Aug '1717d19 Aug '1719 Aug '17
2 Aug '17

Seattle, WA

23°C
United States
 26 Jul '177d2 Aug '172 Aug '17
26 Jul '17

Montreal

27°C
Canada
 17 Jul '177d24 Jul '1724 Jul '17
17 Jul '17

New York City, NY

29°C
United States
 4 Jul '1713d17 Jul '1717 Jul '17
4 Jul '17

Seattle, WA

22°C
United States
 23 Jun '1710d3 Jul '173 Jul '17
23 Jun '17

Edinburgh

15°C
United Kingdom
 11 Jun '1712d23 Jun '1723 Jun '17
11 Jun '17

Copenhagen

21°C
Denmark
 
 8 May '1713d21 May '1721 May '17
8 May '17

Tulum

31°C
Mexico
 1 May '177d8 May '178 May '17
1 May '17

Los Angeles, CA

19°C
United States
2016
 1 Dec '161mo31 Dec '1631 Dec '16
1 Dec '16

Rishikesh

18°C
India
 
 31 Oct '167d7 Nov '167 Nov '16
31 Oct '16

Delhi

31°C
India
 
 22 Aug '1629d20 Sep '1620 Sep '16
22 Aug '16

Seattle, WA

23°C
United States
 16 Aug '166d22 Aug '1622 Aug '16
16 Aug '16

Santa Cruz

United States
 
 1 Aug '1615d16 Aug '1616 Aug '16
1 Aug '16

Montreal

25°C
Canada
 
 21 May '162mo31 Jul '1631 Jul '16
21 May '16

Seattle, WA

18°C
United States
 
 18 Apr '1621d9 May '169 May '16
18 Apr '16

Cairo

25°C
Egypt
 
 29 Mar '1619d17 Apr '1617 Apr '16
29 Mar '16

Addis Ababa

24°C
Ethiopia
2015
 25 Nov '1515d10 Dec '1510 Dec '15
25 Nov '15

Playa del Carmen

29°C
Mexico
 
 16 Oct '151mo25 Nov '1525 Nov '15
16 Oct '15

Seattle, WA

13°C
United States
 
 20 Sep '1526d16 Oct '1516 Oct '15
20 Sep '15

Paris

21°C
France
 
 20 Jun '152mo8 Aug '158 Aug '15
20 Jun '15

Los Angeles, CA

22°C
United States
 
 6 Mar '1514d20 Mar '1520 Mar '15
6 Mar '15

Montreal

-1°C
Canada
 
 10 Feb '1524d6 Mar '156 Mar '15
10 Feb '15

Siem Reap

33°C
Cambodia
 
 20 Jan '1521d10 Feb '1510 Feb '15
20 Jan '15

Ubud, Bali

29°C
Indonesia
2014
 3 Dec '142mo20 Jan '1520 Jan '15
3 Dec '14

Chiang Mai

28°C
Thailand
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What's good places to work in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia?


in Ethiopia by @iain_bryson |  | 3 comments

Simple question. I’m going to Addis in March for ~2 months. Then maybe on to India.

Does anyone have some recommendations for places to stay and work around the city? I’d like to not have to worry too much about Internet (i.e. at least a few reliable hours per day, doesn’t need to be super fast).

Thanks!

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🌎 Regions collected (6 of 9)

🚩 Flags collected (12 of 276)

🌍 Top countries

  • United States

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun mediocre
    👮 Safety very bad
    Tap to open
    ☀️ Feels 13° 55° 13° 56°AQI 36
    1yr
    $3,196 / mo
    46Mbps
    ×
  • Indonesia

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 😝 Cheap
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun mediocre
    👮 Safety good
    Tap to open
    🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 36
    3mo
    $839 / mo
    11Mbps
    ×
  • Mexico

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 😙 Affordable
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun mediocre
    👮 Safety bad
    Tap to open
    ☀️ Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 59
    2mo
    $1,427 / mo
    15Mbps
    ×
  • Thailand

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 😙 Affordable
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun mediocre
    👮 Safety good
    Tap to open
    🌥 Feels 34° 93° 31° 88°🥵AQI 62
    2mo
    $1,396 / mo
    20Mbps
    ×
  • India

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 😝 Cheap
    📡 Internet 🙂 Good
    😀 Fun mediocre
    👮 Safety mediocre
    Tap to open
    ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 31° 88°🥵AQI 158😷
    1mo
    $930 / mo
    8Mbps
    ×
  • Canada

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 🙂 Okay
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun mediocre
    👮 Safety mediocre
    Tap to open
    1mo
    $2,785 / mo
    27Mbps
    ×
  • France

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun mediocre
    👮 Safety mediocre
    Tap to open
    🌥 Feels 15° 58° 15° 58°AQI 66
    26d
    $3,562 / mo
    29Mbps
    ×
  • Cambodia

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 😙 Affordable
    📡 Internet 🙂 Good
    😀 Fun mediocre
    👮 Safety mediocre
    Tap to open
    🌧 Feels 39° 102° 32° 90°🥵AQI 94😷
    24d
    $1,255 / mo
    8Mbps
    ×
  • 🛬 Most visits

  • Seattle

    Seattle is a great city, especially if you like nature, there are plenty of outdoor activities to do all year round. People are generally open-minded and friendly. The cost of living is high but it allows you to be able to afford other places on earth easily if you can find a job here. You can also find plenty of good restaurants and arts around in the city. I recommend to stay at least 3-6 months to get the feel of living a PNW life.

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive
    📡 Internet 🚀 Super fast
    😀 Fun mediocre
    👮 Safety very bad
    Tap to open
    🌥 Feels 11° 52° 11° 52°AQI 82😷
    7x
    $4,024 / mo
    81Mbps
    ×
  • Montreal

    Having lived in the Montreal region almost all my life, here are a few things to note: - Smoking is prohibited in all public buildings (restaurants, bars, stores, underground shopping malls, business and residential building (excluding your own living spaces), public transportation, etc. - English is harder to come by outside Montreal and certain parts of south shore but very common in the west end of Montreal - Montreal has 2 English universities: McGill and Concordia both of which are centrall

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 🙂 Okay
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun good
    👮 Safety mediocre
    Tap to open
    🌤 Feels -4° 25° -2° 29°AQI 30
    3x
    $2,660 / mo
    28Mbps
    ×
  • Los Angeles

    Nothing does a better job of explaining LA’s beautiful diversity and different neighborhoods than the documentary about the late Jonathan Gold, our city’s greatest amabassador and the only food critic to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. It is called, “City of Gold” and if you want to know LA, just watch this film. Trailer link: https://youtu.be/DmKTRDfz1zM

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun great
    👮 Safety very bad
    Tap to open
    🌧 Feels 17° 63° 16° 60°AQI 29
    2x
    $4,325 / mo
    48Mbps
    ×
  • Mexico City

    It's not dangerous if you stay in the right areas. No one speaks English. I mean no one. If you don't speak Spanish, be prepared to use GoogleTr. / sign language / no habla espanol all the time, and also being laughed at while trying to explain yourself. AirBnB is super expensive. The government puts a very high tax on the accommodations. Overall, these shortened my stay significantly, I intended to stay for long but after less than a month I was anxious to leave to a place where I can at lea

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 😙 Affordable
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun good
    👮 Safety bad
    Tap to open
    ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 85😷
    1x
    $1,426 / mo
    20Mbps
    ×
  • Oaxaca

    Oaxaca is magical! Tons of cute cafes, rooftop restaurants with gorgeous views of mountains and cathedrals, cheap, beautiful.

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 😙 Affordable
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun mediocre
    👮 Safety mediocre
    Tap to open
    🌥 Feels 25° 77° 25° 77°AQI 42
    1x
    $1,255 / mo
    15Mbps
    ×
  • New York City

    Having spent a total of two weeks in London on two separate occasions and having lived in NYC for two years, both are among my favorite cities in the world. Londoners are quite internationally and ethnically diverse, and seemingly better educated and more intellectual than New Yorkers in aggregate. The city very clean with a stunning mix of modern and historic architecture, and arguably has Europe's best public transit in terms of signage, availability, cleanliness and general efficiency. Meanw

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun great
    👮 Safety very bad
    Tap to open
    ☀️ Feels  43°  45°AQI 51
    1x
    $4,755 / mo
    34Mbps
    ×
  • Edinburgh

    Edinburgh is one of my favorite cities and I've spent quite a bit of time here. It's charming, friendly, beautiful, and walkable, and has a range of cafes and coffeeshops with fast wifi. The downsides: it's pretty expensive (housing especially), and there doesn't seem to be much of a nomad scene. The general tech scene seems to be smallish but growing (CodeBase seems cool), but not many nomads seem to come here.

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 🧐 Pricey
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun mediocre
    👮 Safety good
    Tap to open
    🌥 Feels  39°  41°AQI 23
    1x
    $3,695 / mo
    27Mbps
    ×
  • Copenhagen

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive
    📡 Internet 🚀 Super fast
    😀 Fun mediocre
    👮 Safety mediocre
    Tap to open
    🌥 Feels  39°  41°AQI 18
    1x
    $4,658 / mo
    54Mbps
    ×
  • 🛌 Most time spent

  • Seattle

    Seattle is a great city, especially if you like nature, there are plenty of outdoor activities to do all year round. People are generally open-minded and friendly. The cost of living is high but it allows you to be able to afford other places on earth easily if you can find a job here. You can also find plenty of good restaurants and arts around in the city. I recommend to stay at least 3-6 months to get the feel of living a PNW life.

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive
    📡 Internet 🚀 Super fast
    😀 Fun mediocre
    👮 Safety very bad
    Tap to open
    🌥 Feels 11° 52° 11° 52°AQI 82😷
    1yr
    $4,024 / mo
    81Mbps
    ×
  • Canggu

    Bali is amazing, but Canggu isn't really that great -- actually there are SO MANY better places, like Uluwatu, Gili Islands or even Ubud that I can't understand the hype. As almost everyone said below, beaches are crappy, roads are terrible, sidewalks are non-existent and having a motorbike is a must. On the other side, food is great and cafes are pretty reasonable with all those incredible bowls. Anyway I wouldn't recommend it for more than a week.

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 😙 Affordable
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun good
    👮 Safety good
    Tap to open
    🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 87°🥵AQI 34
    3mo
    $1,356 / mo
    23Mbps
    ×
  • Los Angeles

    Nothing does a better job of explaining LA’s beautiful diversity and different neighborhoods than the documentary about the late Jonathan Gold, our city’s greatest amabassador and the only food critic to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. It is called, “City of Gold” and if you want to know LA, just watch this film. Trailer link: https://youtu.be/DmKTRDfz1zM

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun great
    👮 Safety very bad
    Tap to open
    🌧 Feels 17° 63° 16° 60°AQI 29
    2mo
    $4,325 / mo
    48Mbps
    ×
  • Chiang Mai

    Chiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 😙 Affordable
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun good
    👮 Safety good
    Tap to open
    🌥 Feels 34° 93° 33° 91°🥵AQI 189😷
    2mo
    $1,100 / mo
    22Mbps
    ×
  • Montreal

    Having lived in the Montreal region almost all my life, here are a few things to note: - Smoking is prohibited in all public buildings (restaurants, bars, stores, underground shopping malls, business and residential building (excluding your own living spaces), public transportation, etc. - English is harder to come by outside Montreal and certain parts of south shore but very common in the west end of Montreal - Montreal has 2 English universities: McGill and Concordia both of which are centrall

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 🙂 Okay
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun good
    👮 Safety mediocre
    Tap to open
    🌤 Feels -4° 25° -2° 29°AQI 30
    1mo
    $2,660 / mo
    28Mbps
    ×
  • Rishikesh

    I love Rishikesh, and it's a very pleasant place to live as a digital nomad. Prices are very cheap and it is lovely to have an ashram to go to every day. The flow of life is easy because I take with myself the backpack with the computer to a cafe by Ganga and have some nice healthy breakfast, at 08:00 am, and work to about 10:30. Then i go to Sachcha Dham Ashram join a Bhajans and listen to Satsang from my Guru there. Then i go out with my friends to a nice place to spend the day. Other days i w

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 😙 Affordable
    📡 Internet 🙂 Good
    😀 Fun bad
    👮 Safety mediocre
    Tap to open
    ☀️ Feels 26° 79° 26° 79°AQI 79😷
    1mo
    $1,136 / mo
    7Mbps
    ×
  • Mexico City

    It's not dangerous if you stay in the right areas. No one speaks English. I mean no one. If you don't speak Spanish, be prepared to use GoogleTr. / sign language / no habla espanol all the time, and also being laughed at while trying to explain yourself. AirBnB is super expensive. The government puts a very high tax on the accommodations. Overall, these shortened my stay significantly, I intended to stay for long but after less than a month I was anxious to leave to a place where I can at lea

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 😙 Affordable
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun good
    👮 Safety bad
    Tap to open
    ☀️ Feels 24° 75° 24° 76°AQI 85😷
    1mo
    $1,426 / mo
    20Mbps
    ×
  • Paris

    Super fun and beautiful city. I find Parisians are actually very patient and warm if you at least attempt to speak French; in my experience, most people who complain that they're rude are the ones making zero effort to speak the language. Expensive though and not very easy to meet other nomads.

    ⭐️ Overall Score 
    💵 Cost 🧐 Too expensive
    📡 Internet 🏎 Fast
    😀 Fun good
    👮 Safety mediocre
    Tap to open
    🌥 Feels 16° 61° 16° 61°AQI 75
    26d
    $4,060 / mo
    31Mbps
    ×
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