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Legal Nomads
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Legal Nomads is a personal blog at legalnomads.com about culture and health. Since 2016, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Why are there so many cats in Istanbul?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Legal Nomads for city and travel posts, including a Saigon street food post and a post on Istanbul's free-roaming cats. Commenters cite it as related reading on those topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Award-winning travel stories and photo essays, resources and tips, and long guides to eat as a celiac around the world.
Most-linked posts?
- Why are there so many cats in Istanbul?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-20
What Hacker News says?
On the same subject, Jon Myers wrote a great blog post a number of years ago about living and working in Saigon that opened up many remote worker's eyes to the city: https://medium.com/digital-nomad-stories/bootstrapping-in-sa... And because I'm getting nostalgic, here's a great post on the incredible food there: http://www.legalnomads.com/2014/06/saigon-street-food.html
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on “The caffeine curse: why coffee shops have always signalled urban change”Submitted Why are there so many cats in Istanbul? as a story · 122 points
HN discussionhttps://www.legalnomads.com/istanbul-cats/ "In addition, the documentary looks into the history of cat domestication, and how in the middle ages the church tried to get rid of cats due to their association with witches" only difference is, now it's "toxoplasmosis and cat scratch fever" instead of witches. Do you have numbers on the prevalence of those ills? As compared to well-known rat-borne illness?
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on “New York City hiring top rat killer”Submitted The lumbar puncture that changed my life as a story · 101 points
HN discussionRelated [to Istanbul's cats] article: http://www.legalnomads.com/2012/03/istanbul-cats.html
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on “A documentary of extraordinary lives of cats in Istanbul, where cats are free”Submitted A Brief History of Fish Sauce as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dengue Fever Is Growing Worldwide. Don't Delay Testing Like I Did as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Spinal Tap That Changed My Life as a story · 2 points
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