• twinnie@feddit.uk
    11110·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • aname@lemmy.one
      1072·
      3 months ago

      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.

        • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          3 months ago

          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.

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
            3·
            3 months ago

            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.

      • twinnie@feddit.uk
        3·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • aname@lemmy.one
          1·
          3 months ago

          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.

    • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
      521·
      3 months ago

      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

    • Comment105@lemm.ee
      49·
      3 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.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      71·
      3 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.

    • Hector@lemmy.ca
      6·
      3 months ago

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

      • bstix@feddit.dk
        6·
        3 months ago

        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.

    • Who knew?@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 months ago

      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

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    64·
    3 months ago

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

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
      264·
      3 months ago

      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

        • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
          6·
          3 months ago

          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.

          • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            5·
            3 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.

          • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
            2·
            3 months ago

            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.

  • Comment105@lemm.ee
    471·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • FatCrab@lemmy.one
      10·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • generaldenmark
        3·
        3 months ago

        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

        • FatCrab@lemmy.one
          1·
          3 months ago

          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?

          • generaldenmark
            2·
            3 months ago

            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).

      • Eiri@lemmy.ca
        19·
        3 months ago

        Are HOAs even a thing outside of the US ? I know I’ve never seen that concept here in Canada at least.

          • cinnamonTea@lemmy.ml
            4·
            3 months ago

            It’s certainly a thing for owning apartments in a multi-apartment building. We call it Eigentümerversammlung and I hear they’re quite the hassle to deal with, too. Kind of hard to avoid having to have, though

              • tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de
                1·
                3 months ago

                For apartment buildings, yes, because you have shared private infrastructure that you need to make shared decisions about. For detached houses I don’t really get the point.

                • frezik@midwest.social
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  To steel man HOA’s, they take care of common property in a similar way to condos. Anything from street lights, to the sign at the front of the cul du sac, to the playground that seems oh so much nicer than what the city ever puts in. Some even provide garbage service and maintain the streets. Municipalities have been happy to offload this burden.

                  Steel man off: their point is to keep black people out. The superficial niceness is so white people can say how great things work for them, even when they’re only one layoff away from losing it all.

        • bstix@feddit.dk
          4·
          3 months ago

          Yes it is, it’s just not as crazy, but it exists everywhere.

          If several houses share a private road, it will be necessary to make an agreement with all the homeowners on maintaining the road.

          Similarly with privately owned apartments. If they need new windows, it’s generally in everybody’s interest that the entirety of homeowners agree on the colour of windows.

          There are usually some sort of home owners association anywhere where homeowners own part of the common areas.

          It’s still possible to buy a house without one, but many new build suburban sprawl have them by default because the placement off public roads and the developers wanting to have everything look at a certain standard before the houses are sold to individuals.

            • bstix@feddit.dk
              2·
              3 months ago

              It definitely exists in Canada. Mostly in condos, where it makes sense.

              The issue in USA is that they have many more gated communities where the HOAs have way too much power to “manage” the community.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
    26·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
    212·
    3 months ago

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

    • boonhet@lemm.ee
      101·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
        41·
        3 months ago

        Even a few people might be sign of it starting to snowball (heh) so might make the people there upset.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
      12·
      3 months ago

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

    • randombullet
      5·
      3 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.

  • EnderMB@lemmy.world
    15·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • boonhet@lemm.ee
      5·
      3 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

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
    10·
    3 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.