Comment on Should You Move to a High Cost of Living City?

Diego Caleiro · 2014-09-24 · EA Forum

There's a concept in Lesswrong culture "Is that your true rejection?" which can be positively framed as "Is that your true acceptance?"

To make claims of the form "consider doing this" or "you should do that", I recommend only putting in reasons for which (at least some) people would actually do that thing.

I don't predict any EA would move to a city because it is green, so I'd remove that paragraph altogether.

I do however predict many EA's would move to a city because there are communities of other EA's living there, so I'd emphasize that, and mention some cities and countries with many EA's.

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