You can also live in Anywhere, USA if you're not willing to be that adventurous. It's cheap, too. I worked remotely in Yakima, Washington, which means I could still fly home and visit Seattle from time to time.
Then again, some people love the adventure of moving to another country, and I encourage them to pursue that if that's what they want.
That's all moot though because the Zig guy said elsewhere he'll probably be following his girlfriend who's about to graduate.
There are excellent inexpensive places to live in Washington that offer a lot more than Yakima does. Spokane, for example, is still very inexpensive compared to Seattle and offers a lot more in terms of both city life and accessible outdoor activities. It's too bad the dev scene there is pretty limited (Itron and Seven2 are really the only companies that I can think of off the top of my ahead employing devs, and the salaries are nothing to write home about). Of course, if you're doing remote work anyway, this isn't really an issue.
There are a lot of great mid-size cities out there--a hundred of them to choose from--and they're all cheap.
There's this prevailing attitude by city dwellers that living outside of NY, SF, Seattle, or <insert your tech hub here> is death, but that is an attitude borne from a lack of experience about life.
Life is sometimes great in midsize cities, and in many ways they offer more for less.
More apartment for your money, plentiful parking, more elbow room at restaurants, more say in civic life (if that is important to you). You can just "breathe" easier and aren't constantly "wound up" as tightly as a defense mechanism against being jostled, hustled, dealing with long waits. It's a little hard to appreciate until you're in it. Not the best if you're looking for a wider dating pool, need top flight arts and entertainment every weekend, or if you can't/don't keep a car.
Then again, some people love the adventure of moving to another country, and I encourage them to pursue that if that's what they want.
That's all moot though because the Zig guy said elsewhere he'll probably be following his girlfriend who's about to graduate.