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[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 months ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] funkless_eck 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Grew up in a small village. Immediately moved to a big city as soon as I could.

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[–] imaqtpie 51 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (2 children)

total overkill

One might consider it the nuuklear option

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Obligatory

"Nuuk-u-lar"! It's pronounced "Nuuk-u-lar"!

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That has been pretty much my life lately here in Ottawa. I'll take boring any day over busy, overcrowded cities.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Suicide rates in Greenland are among the highest on the planet. It may seem idyllic but it's apparently crushingly lonely and oppressive.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At least not for another 20 years or so anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not with that attitude Anon won't.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Often the best opportunities in life are the scariest

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (26 children)

Seattle has cooler weather and mostly speaks English

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Yeah but Ireland also has social healthcare and workers rights

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

It's a lot harder if you have a family.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

That's the kind of picture that would get you a great career in Hallmark Christmas cards.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

literally abandoned

So the library shut down, then?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

It was figuratively abandoned too

They took the mannequins

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

no war

Greenland is a super strategic place in the Northern Atlantic "theatre"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I live in a small town in Northern England, I also have no war.

I'm sure Greenland has politics though, because you know, it's a country.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure they'd love to have random immigrants who moved there just because it looked nice on online photos

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I thought this was someone emulating Wurtz' style

I shall seek punishments in Antarctica

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It won't be calm for long with all those toddlers running around, climbing things and getting into a ruckus

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

you can't just go to these places they will rip off your nuts

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interestingly, Nuuk is actually Inuit for ”New York”.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

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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