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.
Actually I speak from experience. I grew up in the countryside and I’ve also lived in huge cities. Places to have a drink after work provide a hub for the community where you can relax and meet people in the area. I’m not talking about nightclubs, I’m talking about anything at all. They’re especially important in cold countries where you aren’t likely to just sit in your garden and talk to the neighbours over the fence.
They’re especially important in cold countries where you aren’t likely to just sit in your garden and talk to the neighbours over the fence.
I live in a small town in northern Europe. I don’t see the problem.
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
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“Nuuk-u-lar”! It’s pronounced “Nuuk-u-lar”!
Can confirm.
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.
We went on holiday in Iceland, the place where we slept one night had the nearest gas station 160 km away, the nearest grocery store at more than 300 km. I loved it for a few weeks, but I would not move there.
Better not forget the eggs.
That has been pretty much my life lately here in Ottawa. I’ll take boring any day over busy, overcrowded cities.
overcrowded cities.
They’re making new people at a surprising rate in some of the places most impacted by climate change. You may need to adjust your expectations as resettling the residents of these at-risk places becomes a bigger effort.
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.
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
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
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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Could be that you’re just one of the people who aren’t affected by it.
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seasonal affective depression
I’m just saying that not everyone is affected by it. I’d say most people are just fine. For example, in Finland that rate is 10–30% who get some symptoms without the depression. For the SAD overall, I found this
In Greenland, the northernmost territory of North America, the frequency of SAD has been found to vary from 6.9 to 11.5%, and highest in northern municipalities
So you could move to Greenland and be totally fine. Though I guess where you are coming from can affect it.
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
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.
Nerd
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Not with that latitude either
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
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).
Ah, very interesting. Appreciate the insights!
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
Bill please come back
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
I remember reading a news story about a group of hikers who’d accidentally got off the last train at this station: https://www.osmap.nl/#15/56.7603/-4.6888
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.
Interestingly, Nuuk is actually Inuit for ”New York”.
Fact of the day. New Yorkers have 50 different ways to say go fuck yourself.
Well, i had a good laugh, thanks for that
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.
