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.
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.
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"!
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.
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.
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.
looks pretty cozy alright
That's the kind of picture that would get you a great career in Hallmark Christmas cards.
no war
Greenland is a super strategic place in the Northern Atlantic "theatre"
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.
Greenland is not a country though, it's part of Denmark, although it has autonomy
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
you can't just go to these places they will rip off your nuts
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
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.
Interestingly, Nuuk is actually Inuit for ”New York”.
Fact of the day. New Yorkers have 50 different ways to say go fuck yourself.
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.
I have this same feel about Aland, or some little mountain towns in Mexico.
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