Ask HN: Have a hard time working at home. Co-working an alternative?

I&#x27;ve been remote for four of the past five years and only recently signed up for a co-working space in Toronto: <a href="http://projectspac.es" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;projectspac.es</a><p>While I don&#x27;t find any issue working from my bedroom (as far as work&#x2F;life separation is concerned) but I do get stir crazy if I&#x27;m at home more than 60% of the time.<p>For a while I was hitting up a different coffee shop almost every day, and that&#x27;s great while you&#x27;re travelling, but getting a coworking space has been key to taking the next step in my career.<p>I hummed and hawed about the price, and decided that as long as it let me pull in a little freelance, I could afford it.<p>Since the summer, my rate has tripled, I&#x27;m picking up freelance each week in addition to me remote contract, and I&#x27;m much HAPPIER!<p>What I like is that it&#x27;s a space filled with other entrepreneurs, and iron sharpens iron. I get so much motivation being around so many other people hustlin hard that I end up effortlessly putting in an extra 2-4 hours a day without realizing it!<p>Also great for stupidly fast internet, meeting likeminded people, and getting that social aspect back to your work. Many people at the spaces support each other&#x27;s businesses as well, although so far I haven&#x27;t found any clients from within that pool.

I highly recommend a coworking space without-a-doubt. I personally don&#x27;t find the same issues with working at home, but coworking spaces have a lot of benefits including; fast internet, access to printers&#x2F;scanners&#x2F;faxes, conference rooms, private booths, amenities (showers, mouthwash, razors), foosball&#x2F;ping pong tables, coffee&#x2F;tea, snacks, events and more.<p>I just did a two month stint at WeWork in Seattle and I must say, as far as coworking spaces go, WeWork was the most enjoyable. You got all of the aforementioned benefits and on-top of that, free beer. People from other startups and businesses would regularly socialise, play foosball together and events were happening all of the time.<p>If home life is getting you down, definitely consider a coworking space as they are not even that expensive considering the benefits and support that you get.

I can&#x27;t stand working at home &amp; I&#x27;m full-time remote.<p>Coworking spaces are great &amp; I would completely recommend one for anyone working remotely. I think it&#x27;s important to keep a clear distinction between home &amp; &quot;the office&quot; &amp; I find I&#x27;m much more productive at a dedicated work space vs my own room.<p>Coworking spaces usually have cheap food, coffee and are a great way to meet new people (regular events etc).

I was in a similar rut. I&#x27;m now in a co-working space. It isn&#x27;t in any way a startup hub type environment, just a couple of freelancers and small businesses sharing space and resources, but it has made the world of difference to me.<p>I have people I get to chat to, have lunch with and most importantly of all, I get out of the house and go to work, then come home again at the end of the work day. I rarely switch my computer on at home anymore. It is a lot more healthy.

What city are you in? What do you do? Lots of people see stuff on HN so you should at least post a short bio&#x2F;resume :)

I use my local hacker space (HackerDojo).

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