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These kinds of places can look idyllic until it’s 5:30pm on a Friday and the only place to get a drink closed half an hour and the streets are all empty. Then they start to feel pretty boring.
City dweller reviewing a small town lol
Peace and quiet is not a minus. Peace and quiet is exactly the point of those places. If I wanted night clubs and people on the streets, I’d live in a city.
Grew up in a small village. Immediately moved to a big city as soon as I could.
It’s funny - I live in a big city because I have to and I constantly complain about it to my friend who wanted to move to this city so much that one day she just drove here with almost no money and no place to stay. I don’t think she’s very sympathetic.
And as someone who’s done the small town bit I feel much more for her than you. I love cities, I didn’t think I would but once I fell for them I fell hard.
Different people like different places. I can’t live the life I want rurally without a lot of drives to cities. I know people in the boonies who would never move an inch closer to a city. Some folks are born in a place that ain’t right for them.
grew up in a smol place and know this well, it feels like a prison especially if you have no cash to get drunk with
I think you need to look up Nuuk.
It’s small, but it’s still the capital of Greenland. It has like 6 bars and several are open before 17:30 and well into the night on Fridays.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/XsBiTGU5qMxJzzCb8?g_st=ac
Also, anon is delisional if he thinks Nuuk has no politics. I’d imagine they even argue about Trump. I know rural Norwegians do.
Especially considering the fact that Trump seems interested in dissolving NATO.
There are plenty of small towns away from the world that aren’t in Greenland 😅. I get the sentiment but Nuuk is total overkill if anon is just looking for a peaceful small town
total overkill
One might consider it the nuuklear option
Oh shit what? No drunk people roaming around the streets? What a nightmare
A bottle of Jack Daniels costs about DKK400 on Greenland. That’s about $60. It’s tax free though.
People do drink less than the average in EU, but despite this, alcoholism and drug abuse are serious issues on Greenland.
Fuck, does it look cold there. and I live in friggin Ohio!
I have this same feel about Aland, or some little mountain towns in Mexico.
there’s a lot of cool little towns oop north though like may I interest you in Gaspe, QC?
Dildo, Newfoundland is a little sleepier but probably fits the bill
Suicide rates in Greenland are among the highest on the planet. It may seem idyllic but it’s apparently crushingly lonely and oppressive.
seasonal affective depression… if you are going to move somewhere remote, move into a desert or rainforest (i.e. near the equator), not places like Canada, Alaska, Siberia, or indeed Greenland
Idk about greenland but in faroe and iceland a surprising amount of people are moving in because its a very calm place. The birth rate is also good(at least on iceland, idk about faroe) so the population is actually growing pretty steadily.
It won’t be calm for long with all those toddlers running around, climbing things and getting into a ruckus
Nuuk is fairly remote, but it’s literally the capital and I’ve heard it’s developing nicely.
Imagine moving much farther north to Illorsuit, it was literally abandoned a few years ago.
I believe they are completing their modern international airport this year or next? Which should make Nuuk, and Greenland, far more accessible and thus help its tourism industry. From my understanding, it’s also very hard to immigrate to.
AFAIK Greenland immigration laws are the danish immigration laws, as Greenland is part of Denmark. And yes, we do have very strict immigration policy here
Yea, but Greenland is also autonomous so its laws do diverge from Denmark’s in a lot of ways. I’m not am expert or particularly knowledgeable on either, though, so just pointing it out because i don’t know where those deltas are. I don’t think you can actually own land in Greenland, for example, and rather long term lease plots from the government is perhaps one case?
Sure it is autonomous, but most things are still taken care of by Denmark, such as police, medical needs etc. even immigration to Greenland is applied through Danish authorities.
I think they mostly follow Danish laws, with some exceptions, (Greenland does not accept refugees as an example).
no war
Greenland is a super strategic place in the Northern Atlantic “theatre”
no politics
This anon has never attended a HOA meeting and argued with their fascist neighbors about building a playground.
Are HOAs even a thing outside of the US ? I know I’ve never seen that concept here in Canada at least.
In Germany there is no such thing.
It’s certainly a thing for owning apartments in a multi-apartment building. We call it Eigentümerversammlung and I hear they’re quite the hassle to deal with, too. Kind of hard to avoid having to have, though
Not with that attitude Anon won’t.
Facts. Picking your ass up and moving to a country, even without knowing the language and little money is possible. You just have to make a lot of trade-offs for it to happen.
Source: I did it
It’s definitely something I wanna do (I live in the states) but it’s also definitely something I’m deathly afraid of. Always thought Ireland would be nice since I’m a fan of cooler weather and they mostly speak English already (thanks Britain), though it looks like Irish is starting to become more common again.
Seattle has cooler weather and mostly speaks English
Yeah but Ireland also has social healthcare and workers rights
Seattle is a shithole, let’s not punish him
Found the Fox News watcher
Found someone who hasn’t lived there during CHAZ
🙄
cope and seethe harder dude, or maybe move back to moscow idaho
Remote can exist practically anywhere.
My in-laws retired and moved to France, in the rural south. It is eerily quiet because no traffic goes near their house, and they are 30 mins drive from anything like civilization. They do have a small restaurant (that loves putting froe grais on everything), a hairdressers, a travelling doctor, and (weirdly) a bowling alley that doubles up as the local bar and a place to buy stuff - all for less than a hundred people.
You can get really remote in the UK too. Some parts of England are 30 mins from anything like civilization. Some parts of Scotland are only accessible once a day by boat, and if you go really up north you find wooded areas where people die because you’re surrounded by miles of nondescript woodland.
Live in Estonia. Went on a bicycle trek once. “Hmm, I’ve barely seen any cars today. Like even on asphalt roads.”
Second biggest city in Estonia was 25 km away. It wasn’t even a remote location and there was just nobody around
