<story><title>Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?</title><text>I&amp;#x27;m no more productive at work. I produce in a week the same amount of code I used to produce in a day before the pandemic.&lt;p&gt;Am I alone to feel work-from-home made things worse?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jameshush</author><text>I had to leave California (been there 6 years). I was lucky because I had four other room mates to keep me company but even with that it was tough. I also wasn&amp;#x27;t really enjoying what I was working on at my previous company (adtech) and needed a change.&lt;p&gt;I ended up moving to Taiwan a few weeks ago. Zero COVID here, and was surprisingly easy to immigrate (coming from someone who was dealing with the US immigration system as a Canadian). Working at a fun startup back on the consumer product side instead. Went to a bar for the first time in a year last week and was able to just sit in a coffee shop with 10 other people this morning. I&amp;#x27;m still teaching myself to read&amp;#x2F;speak Chinese but it&amp;#x27;s totally worth it.&lt;p&gt;Anyone with experience with TypeScript&amp;#x2F;React interested in tagging along to Taiwan, send me an email (my email is in my hacker news profile). I&amp;#x27;m actively hiring engineers now. We&amp;#x27;re a distributed team across many different countries but a few of us hang out in Taipei together at a coworking space. It&amp;#x27;s the best of both worlds, I&amp;#x27;m able to WFH when I feel like it but still go to a public space to be around people</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vmception</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m considering Taiwan too, any idea how Africans are treated, in Taipei?&lt;p&gt;I get the impression there are more black Africans than black Americans there. I recall some issues on mainland China with people violently scapegoating disease on them and anyone with dark skin. In most countries I&amp;#x27;ve lived in nationality carried more weight than simply color.&lt;p&gt;I just want to go to music festivals lol, Ultra Fest are you kidding me!?</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Anyone else burnt out due to extended lockdown and work-from-home?</title><text>I&amp;#x27;m no more productive at work. I produce in a week the same amount of code I used to produce in a day before the pandemic.&lt;p&gt;Am I alone to feel work-from-home made things worse?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jameshush</author><text>I had to leave California (been there 6 years). I was lucky because I had four other room mates to keep me company but even with that it was tough. I also wasn&amp;#x27;t really enjoying what I was working on at my previous company (adtech) and needed a change.&lt;p&gt;I ended up moving to Taiwan a few weeks ago. Zero COVID here, and was surprisingly easy to immigrate (coming from someone who was dealing with the US immigration system as a Canadian). Working at a fun startup back on the consumer product side instead. Went to a bar for the first time in a year last week and was able to just sit in a coffee shop with 10 other people this morning. I&amp;#x27;m still teaching myself to read&amp;#x2F;speak Chinese but it&amp;#x27;s totally worth it.&lt;p&gt;Anyone with experience with TypeScript&amp;#x2F;React interested in tagging along to Taiwan, send me an email (my email is in my hacker news profile). I&amp;#x27;m actively hiring engineers now. We&amp;#x27;re a distributed team across many different countries but a few of us hang out in Taipei together at a coworking space. It&amp;#x27;s the best of both worlds, I&amp;#x27;m able to WFH when I feel like it but still go to a public space to be around people</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s really great!  I had a friend who did the same thing.  We had a FaceTime while they walked around the city with no masks.  It was surreal.&lt;p&gt;FYI for anyone interested, if you make $67,000USD a year, you can go to work in Taiwan too:  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;taiwangoldcard.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;taiwangoldcard.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>