Suicide rates in Greenland are among the highest on the planet. It may seem idyllic but it's apparently crushingly lonely and oppressive.
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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
At least not for another 20 years or so anyway.
Climate change doesn't change how much the sun shines. Where I live it has been getting noticeably warmer during my lifetime especially in the colder months, but this hasn't changed that it's dark in those months.
Right,, but in 20 years, the dark places will be hot in the summer, but the sunny places will be dangerous much of the year.
Arizona already has real problems, water, asphalt melting or burning people, more heat stroke.
SAD sucks, but if you can get outside most days and treat it with meds if needed, moving away from desert is gone be necessary in the not too distant future.
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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.
Often the best opportunities in life are the scariest
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
It's a lot harder if you have a family.
Lot harder if you are from a third world country.
An Indian guy rode his bicycle to Sweden about a girl.
Yeah, but anon wants to improve his life and find peace, not going to cross the planet for something so nebulous. The Indian guy had nookie on offer. That's a man with a mission.
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looks pretty cozy alright
That's the kind of picture that would get you a great career in Hallmark Christmas cards.
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.
literally abandoned
So the library shut down, then?
It was figuratively abandoned too
They took the mannequins
no war
Greenland is a super strategic place in the Northern Atlantic "theatre"
I'm sure they'd love to have random immigrants who moved there just because it looked nice on online photos
If it's only a few people? Who cares. I wouldn't. You want to occasionally get some new blood in your community.
If hundreds of people start moving there, it's gonna turn to shit eventually.
Even a few people might be sign of it starting to snowball (heh) so might make the people there upset.
I thought this was someone emulating Wurtz' style
I shall seek punishments in Antarctica
wavy building to do concerts
nobody is doing concerts in that are you nuts
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you can't just go to these places they will rip off your nuts
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
I visited Faroe. Absolutely love the place. Everyone is so kind and nice. The landscape is otherworldly. I would absolutely go back and visit again.
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
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Googling it, there's an e-reader, New Nook, Nook'n go, Tom Nook in animal crossing, a milk farm in Peterborough... but yeah, the city exists.
I've always had an obsession with maps, which as an adult has brought me to wanting to visit the "extremes" of the world. Far north, far south points of things. But I'm not the adventurous type so a lot of those places are just never going to happen. Nuuk has always been high on my list of places that would be neat, while not being impossible to get to comfortably.
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