hax0rbana

This is true. It appears some people are not familiar with the idea of passive heating and cooling or zero energy homes.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/zero-energy-ready-home...

I don't know what you apartment mandates, but the rest of the post is simply not true.

We keep our heat at 16°C during the day, 15°C at night. We don't have any mold issues.

Furthermore, humidity drops with temperature, as cooler air can't hold as much moisture as warm air.

If you're like me and clicked to read this article because you thought it was going to have some suggestions about apps that actually implement these principles, I give you this as a consolation prize: https://secondwind.guardianproject.info/

BTW, I reported the fact that their "Add the Second Wind repo to your F-Droid app" link is broken several months ago, but feel free to report it to encourage them to get that AWS problem taken care of. <3

I'm guessing that is sarcasm? Or you were serious and just never lived in Illinois?

The average temperature barely gets below freezing and rarely get more than a couple inches of snow.

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/urbana/climate

You have at least some of your requirements already. Pick a few candidate towns and scope them out (home prices, weather, healthcare, public transit, culture, local hangouts, art, whatever appeals to you).

When you think you found a good one, go visit in person and see if it meets expectations.

If you want a specific instance, check out Champaign-Urbana, IL. There's Research Park, the University of Illinois, a bunch of bars and restaurants, fun art sprinkled around town, gigabit fiber and homes are under $200K. We walk to the grocery store with our wagon and just fill it up instead of using a shopping cart. If you come visit, be sure to check out Black Dog (a barbeque joint). https://yourewelcomecu.com/

Sample size: 2 men

And in at least one picture it the cat looks like the cat doesn't want to be there. A man who doesn't care what an animal wants because his desire to have a cat in his photo raises red flags about the type of person this is.

The author's `spell` script doesn't work either. No suggestions appear, no definitions, and even entering "0" to get the original text does not copy the word to the clipboard despite the script claiming that is does. Tested on Debian 11.

gcide-dict doesn't exist in Debian (anymore?)

Co-founder of Hax0rbana here. I now live in a metro area of about 120K. Prior to that, I lived in the DC area and LA before that. I mention this for 2 reasons: 1. I don't know if you consider my situstion to be rural. The town is surrounded by cornfields, but I'll leave that to you to decide. 2. It's clear some people answering are clearly city folks. That's fine, but they only know the stereotypes about rural folks being uneducated, straight, poor, etc.

Urbana, IL has a University of Illinois campus. In other words, it's a college town. To give you an idea of the culture, churches have pride flags painted on their signs and hang black lives matter banners. The main event at annual engineering open house is robo brawl, a scaled down version of battle bots. We have art scattered around town, made by local artists. The Independent Media Center has things ranging from a Makerspace, to a bicycle repair community, to books to prisoners. If you show up wanting to learn something, people will be happy to share what they know.

For amemities, we have gigabit fiber run by a regional company. If you want Comcast, they're here to. We have one of the best public transit systems in the country.

This doesn't describe all rural areas/smaller towns.

When we were selecting a city to start our hacker co-housing project, we factored in many things: cost of living, having smart people around, weather, taxes, civil rights, and of course the town's culture (with bigotry being the primary concern).

I think the main takeaway is to choose the location carefully. Not all rural areas are alike, just like not all big cities are alike. Think about the things that matter to you, and measure potential destinations based on those criteria. If it's critical that you have a goth club or something like that, you'll probably end up in a bigger city.