If You Could Live Anywhere: The Surprising Importance of Place in a Work-from-Anywhere World

The book is called “If you could live anywhere.” But 99% of the examples/case studies are from within the USA. <br /><br />Most of the information is either surface-level or common sense. Honestly, felt like a waste of time &amp; money reading this book. <br /><br />Nomad Capitalist is a much better alternative with higher quality information and goes into more detail. Read that instead. <br /><br />Two stars.

This is the second book I've read by Ms. Warnick that I've quite liked. I am not the "work anywhere" person this is aimed at. Nonetheless, I wish this book existed when I was trying to decide where to relocate to. And I would certainly revisit should I be in the situation in the future.

This book is written for who the author calls "Anywhereists," those whose jobs are not location dependent. Even if your job is not location independent, you will be able to extract valuable information from this book. Even if the kind of work you do is not the kind you can do all remotely, what about trying to find that same kind of job in another city that works better for you and your family? The author walks you through how to create a location strategy which will then help you identify locations where you might want to live.

The time has come for this workbook! The questions force someone to consider not why they want to move but to find a better fit for them to increase personal happiness. COVID taught us that you can be more productive in an environment (like home) instead of a cubicle and this workbook will help guide us to work Nirvana. My favorite question was - are you running away from something or to something better? This should be used by both employers and employees to evaluate what is important to new hires and current employees. Thanks to the publisher for the advance copy.

This would be super helpful for someone actively looking to change their lifestyle / move somewhere new. <br /><br />It was less interesting for me (I skipped all the workbook type questions at the end of each chapter) - but did make me reflect on our big move in 2021. And she asks some questions I never even thought about before we moved, ha. So if you're planning a big move in the near future, this is the book for you!

I love Melody's writing style. The snapshots of people's lives and decisions are always SO well done. Despite the fantastic writing, I (surprisingly) found myself discouraged by the content, especially in the first half. It's disheartening to feel like life requires us to hack together a decent living situation. I have no desire to exploit LCOL communities or start up my own business-- yet so many of the benefits of remote living require just that.

Relevant but very boring

strongly skimmed this, but it had some helpful principles for thinking about where to move in a “move anywhere” world.

only read this bc im sick of living in cold minnesota ?

A must read for those of us lucky enough to have freedom of choice about where we live &amp; work.