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    Has Moving to a Warm and Sunny Climate Made You Happier?

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    We wanted to try the same setup with our place in Portugal. We loved it so much - great city, great location and local friends, but as you mentioned... the nightmare of trying to manage it from overseas was looming and we had to make a decision. The last six month or so really sealed our fate...
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    Has Moving to a Warm and Sunny Climate Made You Happier?

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    We keep circling back to the idea of splitting our living situations, or at least having a getaway if we somehow ended up deciding to stay in Canada. Think you mentioned that earlier, but having a secondary home that you can screw off to when the weather gets bad seems like the ultimate cheat...
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    Has Moving to a Warm and Sunny Climate Made You Happier?

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    We are following the same path in reverse. After you visited Portugal and left we were convinced we'd be staying forever. The weather didn't cut it though, while Portugal was an unbelievable experience it was one struggle after another that really cancelled out the benefits of endless sun. We...
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    Homeschooling Chat Thread

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    I noticed you are from Florida and recently read that the state offers a variety of grants of up to $10,000 per student to subsidize aspects of home schooling. Have you had any experience with this? Almost seems too good to be true.
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    Homeschooling Chat Thread

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    And the bad beliefs that they pick up tend to come from the "echo chamber" of public school. We've seen this endlessly with my nephew who brings home some bullshit idea that he picked up off some kid in his class who in turn picked it up off someone in their life. Toxic ideas and dangerous...
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    Homeschooling Chat Thread

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    Appreciate the insight, that's been the gist of our feel on it too. Same teachers... same education concepts.. just more money. Our hope with private school was that the institutions themselves are supported by high earnining, highly educated parents. FIgured this would translate into more...
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    Homeschooling Chat Thread

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    Not sure where you are in Portugal but we ran into the same issue regarding the quality of schools. We live in Portimao/Algarve and have many friends here with kids who have found the international schools to be the only real option. I haven't heard of Portugal having strong homeschool...
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    Homeschooling Chat Thread

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    While I do not have children yet this topic comes up frequently with my wife. We are planning to begin the process of growing our family in the coming year and topics such as parenting and educaiton frequently arise in our daily life. We are both on the same page that Camada's school systems...
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    How are you guys beating the social media addiction?

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    I took a slightly tweaked approach to the 'delete your account, delete the app' conclusion, though I do fully agree that is the most beneficial way. My issue with fully removing the app and myself from it was due to two reasons: I live overseas from family and friends and use social media to...
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    Cancel your Replit/Lovable subscriptions. Just use Antigravity instead.

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    The rate at which tools like Antigravity, Claude Code, etc are progressing is insane. I've spent the last couple months pivoting into AI based automations and they have made live an absolute breeze in comparison to doing it manually. The rate of adoption and demand from clients is rapidly...
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    Has Moving to a Warm and Sunny Climate Made You Happier?

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    I think all of us looking for "sun and happiness" need to reflect on this frequently. I have had to carefully consider this myself as I plan my exit from Portugal after 3 years. I've noticed this specifically within digital nomad communitieis which are full of people constantly seeking the...
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    Has Moving to a Warm and Sunny Climate Made You Happier?

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    This seems to be the common complaint I hear but this sounds familiar to me, you're absolutely right. I am seeking something more familiar at this point. A big thing for me is that while Portugal has a beautiful "soul", it's also an absolute dead end for driven, innovative people. Finding a...
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    Has Moving to a Warm and Sunny Climate Made You Happier?

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    Your advice was very accurate, hard to understand from the outside in. Today we woke up to indoor temperatures of 14 degrees. :rofl: :rage: In a way it was an experience that provided more benefits than drawbacks, truly one of the more valuable mistakes I've made in life. Our three years here...
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    Has Moving to a Warm and Sunny Climate Made You Happier?

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    Struggling! We are having an extremely cold winter in the south of Portugal. Hitting 3 degrees at night later this week... It's colder inside than outside unless we run the heat and the building standards means the apartment holds zero heat. We just got lucky with our first winter here being...
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    Mind blown: Lovable for no-code website development and apps.

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    Are you sticking with WordPress as you are already comfortable with it, or are there oher reasons? I've been a WordPress fan for a long time, but I do not think I will ever build another website with it. WordPress is super convenient when it comes to managing content, but truthfully I do not...
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    Growing alongside AI

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    In the midst of building a website for a friend who is starting a new efoil rental business. Took it as an opportunity to shift away from my usual approach to building and see how AI could handle the task. Seemed like a great opportunity with the release of Gemini 3.0. On top of the website I...
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    Has Moving to a Warm and Sunny Climate Made You Happier?

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    It's a good idea, but neither of us have ever been one for facetime / calls much. My wife can talk to her mom for hours on facetime. My father and I can talk for 3 minutes before things fizzle. In-person communication is different. Something about them just leads to rather base-line...
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    Has Moving to a Warm and Sunny Climate Made You Happier?

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    I agree it should work both ways but unfortunately my family ins't fond on travelling much. For some reason, being the one who moved away, I am left feeling bad despite making the trip back at least two times per year to mostly do what you said... sit around doing nothing. :clench: Your setup...
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    Has Moving to a Warm and Sunny Climate Made You Happier?

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    Had a friend from back in Canada send me this post yesterday (A Reflection On The Little Things | The Curiosity Chronicle) and it reminded me of this topic. In summary, the post reviews the author's decision to gradually move back from California to Boston after 12 years. The move was a result...
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    Growing alongside AI

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    Spent the last 2 days experimenting with no-code tools like Loveable & Google's AI Studio builder to automate a problem for a personal project of mine. My goal was to develop a simple applicaiton that could: help validate a travel webiste to ensure that all recommendaitons on the website are...

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