These kinds of places can look idyllic until itâs 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.
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.
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 whoâs done the small town bit I feel much more for her than you. I love cities, I didnât think I would but once I fell for them I fell hard.
Different people like different places. I canât 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 ainât right for them.
Actually I speak from experience. I grew up in the countryside and Iâve 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. Iâm not talking about nightclubs, Iâm talking about anything at all. Theyâre especially important in cold countries where you arenât 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 đ . I get the sentiment but Nuuk is total overkill if anon is just looking for a peaceful small town
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.
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.