• twinnie@feddit.uk
    107·
    4 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
      101·
      4 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.

      • twinnie@feddit.uk
        3·
        4 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·
          4 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
      49·
      4 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

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      7·
      4 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·
      4 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·
        4 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·
      4 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
    59·
    4 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.

      • Eiri@lemmy.ca
        17·
        4 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·
            4 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·
                4 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·
                  4 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·
          4 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·
              4 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
    24·
    4 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.

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    4 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
      11·
      4 months ago

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

    • randombullet@programming.dev
      5·
      4 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·
    4 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·
      4 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
    9·
    4 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.

  • Turious@leaf.danceEnglish
    6·
    4 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.