Poll: Would you have to live somewhere else if you were not a freelancer?
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neilmac
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 15:38
Spanish to English
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Yes, probably Dec 12, 2019

I live in a semi-rural area, a 40-minute drive from the city. If I wasn’t freelancing and working from home, I’d probably prefer to relocate to somewhere near wherever I was working, rather than commute. However, this is all merely hypothetical and I don’t see that scenario materialising for the foreseeable future.

Christine Andersen
Kaisa I
Angie Garbarino
Philip Lees
 
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 15:38
French to English
No Dec 12, 2019

I live in Paris so there are plenty of opportunities.

 
Michael Harris
Michael Harris  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 15:38
Member (2006)
German to English
Other / no Dec 12, 2019

We live very centrally here with a bus stop just around the corner. But before I started freelancing, I had to drive 70km one way to work everyday because my wife worked near to where we live. But since I have been working at home, it is fantastic!

 
Christine Andersen
Christine Andersen  Identity Verified
Denmark
Local time: 15:38
Member (2003)
Danish to English
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Ideally, but not necessarily Dec 12, 2019

It depends a lot what job I was doing.
That was my big problem before I started freelancing - I live on a peninsula, 50 km from the nearest big town, and there are not a lot of jobs in the bay!

I did several local jobs that I was not well qualified for, and some still involved a lot of transport.
I commuted when I worked in house with a translation agency. At first I had a bus trip of 75-80 minutes each way, and there was only one bus an hour, so it was crowded and a nu
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It depends a lot what job I was doing.
That was my big problem before I started freelancing - I live on a peninsula, 50 km from the nearest big town, and there are not a lot of jobs in the bay!

I did several local jobs that I was not well qualified for, and some still involved a lot of transport.
I commuted when I worked in house with a translation agency. At first I had a bus trip of 75-80 minutes each way, and there was only one bus an hour, so it was crowded and a nuisance if I missed it! Luckily my husband could sometimes drive me part of the way, as he started along the same route, but worked in a different town. Later, our office moved from the centre of town, which allowed me to drive myself. It was still 50 kilometres, but more flexible, and it saved me nearly an hour's transport time each day.

Lots of people live with that kind of commuting in the big cities, but it is exhausting and NOT climate-friendly!

Luckily I can just retire when I have had enough of freelancing, so the question will not arise for me.
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 14:38
Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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Other Dec 12, 2019

I had to live somewhere else when I worked in-house in Brussels from 1986 till 2006. After that, I freelanced there for 10 years with very frequent visits to Lisbon and then my mother’s age and the fact that I got tired of airports and flights made me move back to my home city: beautiful Lisbon.

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Rita Utt
Anja Hajek
 
Thayenga
Thayenga  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 15:38
Member (2009)
English to German
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No Dec 12, 2019

In such a big city, there are plenty of opportunities, so there'd be no need to move somewhere else..

 
Muriel Vasconcellos
Muriel Vasconcellos  Identity Verified
United States
Local time: 07:38
Member (2003)
Spanish to English
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No Dec 12, 2019

I am blessed with a pension from my full-time employment as a translator.

 
Lincoln Hui
Lincoln Hui  Identity Verified
Hong Kong
Local time: 22:38
Member
Chinese to English
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Yes Dec 13, 2019

The streets, probably.

Jan Truper
Julio Madrid
 
Mario Freitas
Mario Freitas  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 11:38
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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I had to Dec 13, 2019

I had to live in four different towns before I became a freelancer, three of which against my will. I'll never do that again. I do want to live somewhere else, but somewhere of my choice, not for professional reasons.

Julio Madrid
 


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