Do you want to live in the city or country? Either way, why? Is there a specific place you’d like to live?
I’d like to leave the United States first. Someplace diverse where I can walk or use public transit, and that has clean water and air. If there’s wilderness, hiking trails, or any other kind of nature relatively close that would be pretty swell.
A city. Or a small town with city level amenities and reachability. Some place where I don’t need a car for regular and even some irregular errands.
I’m quite pleased with where I am right now, a provincial capital in NL. If I’d have to scale down, Houten looks quite promising. If I’d be forced to scale up and leave the country, the four places that pop to my mind that interest me are Freiburg (DE), Vienna (AT), Helsinki (FI) and Oslo (NO).
I want to stay here in germany, Augsburg or maybe move to Hamburg or Aachen.
But if political it keeps going down then i have to sadly leave for my own safety
Literally anywhere without property taxes so I don’t have to earn money to own small piece of land. Just to be able to grow my crops, breed my animals and don’t care about anything. Don’t have to be big land. Just amount that I can survive without owning any money. That would be nice.
The Shire
A nice little cabin in the woods and by a lake.
Far enough from the nearest town that I don’t have neighbors, but close enough that I can reasonably make a grocery run each week.
I lived in Suburbia as a child. Happiness is a thin veneer over the contempt the majority of neighbors feel for each other.
I lived in rural towns for much of my young adult life. Monopolized utilities and services, as well as the issue of small-town indoctrination, were reliably present.
I currently live in a metro. The rampant corruption and vehicle-oriented culture are noxious.
I guess I want to live in outer space. It’s pretty quiet up there and I’d imagine it doesn’t really smell all that bad.
I currently live in a metro. The rampant corruption and vehicle-oriented culture are noxious.
Not all metros are that shitty. IDK about corruption, but at least in Europe there are cities with less car-oriented culture.
Ireland sounds nice
I want to live here in the US in Florida, but in the timeline where Al Gore actually got all the votes counted and won. We are in “uptown” of a mid size city and it’s awesome, I don’t like living in the country but having a yard and garden is nice, and I don’t need to drive much as we are close to many amenities.
City would be my second choice, I do enjoy living in a city, walking to bar or grocery, everything right there and so much to do.
A stable country with solid social safety nets where the people I love are not considered criminals simply for existing would be ideal.
Beyond those requirements, I could live in a cabin in the woods, a trailer in a park, a mansion in the countryside or an apartment in the city. It wouldn’t matter as much.
Sounds like good decision making there.
I want to live in an area that has a great music scene. It has to be clean and pleasant with plenty of community engagement and friendly people. I have to be able to afford a home, food, healthcare, and some things that I and the family just want. I don’t want to be scared for myself or my transgender kids, or my wife. I don’t want to be scared of the government or the people who wanted this version of it.
Basically, I want to live in United States that was promised to me when I was a kid. No matter where it is.
EDIT: Or Cicely, AK.
Converted croft on a remote Scottish island with horizon all round, facing west so I can watch the sun go down.
What is a croft in this context?
Crofting refers to the land ownership system which is unique to Scotland, and a croft is technically a peice of land, but I’m talking about a crofter’s dwelling. There are a huge number of these derelict centuries old stone buildings which would’ve traditionally housed both livestock and people. They often have a cow shed at a lower level connected to the main dwelling so the heat would rise from the animals.
Gotcha, thanks for the explanation!
I want to live on a sailboat and be nomadic.
I’m thinking of moving to Mongolia one day. Vast open spaces and a bitter cold winter. It’s nice to be forgotten by the world.
I lived there for a while, it’s very cool, it feels like going back to the wild Wild West. Bonus points if you like to drink, deduct points if you’re a vegetarian (they mostly just have meat dishes).
Reminds me of when I was up in Iqaluit (far north in Canada). The best way I could describe it is imagine Mos Eisley if it were on the planet Hoth.
Yeah that’s very accurate! I forgot to mention the fighting, they fight a lot there.
That’s the impression I always come away with - similar to Montana or one of the Dakotas in the US. How was the language barrier?
Hmm I don’t remember it being too bad, but I was very used to traveling at the time. Work-wise I was able to find well educated staff with a good enough knowledge of English to work ok so it was all good.
I only do well in cities. I need diversity, culture, community, and transit. You don’t get that in the middle of nowhere.
I think you can get a pretty good community in a remote place, but “the middle of nowhere” has some flexibility; it’s very true that if you’re nowhere enough, you probably won’t have enough people for a community.
