Using Starlink for remote work

[LeakySeals]

I was asking about using Starlink to buy some time to move and then tell them I moved. That way I can get small mortgage and not be out of work or looking for work. The house I’m selling up here is worth significantly more than the houses I’m interested in down there. I only wanted to finance a small amount to keep some of the money aside for moving, whatever may come up. Once that’s done, then let them know I moved. And if it doesn’t work out, oh well I’m already there. Start digging into the retirement funds. Social Security starts a year after if I want it. I might wait.

My other long term thought is Starlink may be a good thing to have in the event of a hurricane.

 

[alarmguy]

I was asking about using Starlink to buy some time to move and then tell them I moved. That way I can get small mortgage and not be out of work or looking for work. The house I’m selling up here is worth significantly more than the houses I’m interested in down there. I only wanted to finance a small amount to keep some of the money aside for moving, whatever may come up. Once that’s done, then let them know I moved. And if it doesn’t work out, oh well I’m already there. Start digging into the retirement funds. Social Security starts a year after if I want it. I might wait.

My other long term thought is Starlink may be a good thing to have in the event of a hurricane.

That explains a lot more. I might be wrong but I wouldnt say it unless I was reasonably certain. Though you can ask a mortgage agent.
I would think that the mortgage company you apply to will require a letter from your employer that you will still be able to stay employed and with the same income at your new location.

I know your situation. My wife and I did the same thing, though we were moving south and leaving our jobs only to find employment once we got to the new home and state. But that was back in the mid 2000's when you could still get a no doc mortgage. No proof was needed of anything except excellent credit and large downpayment. Those days are gone thanks to (no politics)
If it's not a huge mortgage, it might still be possible to find private funding someplace.

 

[andrew_j]

The company I work at figures it out as they are FinTech. Is the job especially contract role worth it? Just ask

 

[goblin]

I wouldn't wing it. There were cases during Covid where companies got sued by states they were not licensed to operate in, because unknowingly to them - remote workers had moved and operated from there. They passed all those beautiful financial joys to those workers once they got hit.

One of these cases if I remember correctly the company was avoiding some specific state like the plague, because they were not licensed to provide services there and knew that the state goes tax-ballistic when they sniff companies that do it, and even had a "no workie from that location" clause in the workers' contracts. What do you know, they still got in hot water when a guy moved there and VPN'ed in, and poured most of that hot water on the worker in question afterwards.

I had a co-worker in Connecticut who had to help with spinning up the new NYC office.
He would get into the CT office every morning, from his house just by the train station > Open his email and say hi > Walk out of the office and to the train station > commute to NYC > work there > commute back > get back to the CT office > email "bye" back > get home. He claimed he would owe NYC taxes if he works in NYC for more than 14 days per month. Another coworker thinks even with what he was doing, he still owed NYC tax Go figure.