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