Where would you live?

Where is this, again? Greenville?

I suppose I take for granted the almost non-existence of the gun nut population where I live.

 

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I honestly don't know why New England still puts up with the rest of the country

 

It's pretty bad out where I live. I can tell when Fox News goes to commercial by the frequency of the gunfire.

 

I’ve mentioned Italy, but specifically Venice or Tuscany would be nice.

 

We've got gun nuts all over down here in South Florida. We've got a weird kind of diversity here. It's mostly immigrants (I've got no issues with them, except I don't know how they survive outside Miami without knowing English), and rednecks. The rednecks are usually the gun nuts.

It's funny because I hear in other countries it's rare to see houses everywhere with their county's flag on their lawn. It's everywhere here. That and firework and gun stores. In my neighborhood, I don't know half the time if what I'm hearing is gun shots or fireworks. And it doesn't need to be a holiday either. It could be on a Tuesday night at 3am. The rednecks here are the most obnoxious people. They love trump and guns and 'merica and if you disagree, they look at you like you killed their puppy.

I'd love to move to Canada or even Ireland, maybe. I hear a lot of other countries pay their citizens to go to school and I'd like to take advantage of that so I don't have to go into enormous debt to get an education. And maybe if I decide to have a child, get sufficient maternity leave.

 

Maybe Scandinavia too.

 

where i would live, isn't a specific location on this planet.

and i seriously do not want hot summers.
at all. nor long ones.

i'd rather have mild, or even not so mild, winters,
long springs and falls, and almost no 'summer' at all.

there ARE several places i have lived, that i THINK i would rather be living then where i am.
both politically and climatologically. (which i think there's a better word for that, but i don't remember what it is)

all places change, and even northerly and high elevation places seem to be getting hit by heat waves recently. (in the northern hemisphere currently)

where would i live AFTER the ecopocalyps?
well the choices would be something i built myself,
a palace of strangeness (think winchester mystery house except each corridor and room built by someone else who lives there, including of course, if i did, that would include me)
or the public shelter space of a village, if i were to actually live in one.

because there would be no oil nor coal available because of there being too small of a population to extract or process them, but tons of ruins to raid for whatever you could find, make use of, or want. including things like solar panels and storage and charging systems.

windmills and other things too of course.

futures are one of those things i think of, have almost always thought of, in a more global then personal sense.

 

Maybe I should make another thread asking where people would live after the apocalypse lol I actually am interested in hearing everyone's ideas on that.

 

I have thought about living in Scandinavia but the realisation of the price of alcohol is a huge turn off especially in Norway which I have friends who live up north in Trondheim.

I'd most likely stay exactly where I am, except if I had to change anything I'd move out onto our property away from the town a bit. But I really like my corner.

We had a corner of land for me to build on but it was kind of more convenient for me to buy a place that had everything I ever wanted rather than building a new home. We were living in a tiny wood cabin on the property and enough was enough lol. Plus, I had cousins come down annoying me all the time which could be painful at times and my uncle always thought of us as oddballs so I had to move from the fam, 5mins away lol.

 

well for me, apocalypse, is eco-pocalypse, because i don't see some god floating down out of the sky, or another really big war.
anything can happen of course,
but environment, that's already happening now.
we're destroying what our own existence depends on. not everyone wants this to happen.

but even our sheer numbers alone, and multiply those by our transportation and power from burning fossil fuels.

the more we can change away from that and the sooner, the less severe the speedbump is going to be,
but we've already passed too many tipping points to imagine we can dodge that bullet entirely.

 

yep, so like, where would you live?

 

My man posts eight paragraphs but doesn't answer the question in any of them

 

I've lived in Oregon my entire life. (Grew up in the coast range, lived in the south Willamette Valley since then, and spent long stretches in central and eastern Oregon. I love the high Oregon desert!) I've traveled all over the world (both on business and for pleasure) and I've never found any place that I'd rather live than where I am. (Although I'd love to spend more time in northern Scotland, if I could afford it.)

 

Unfortunately Scotland has one big problem..

 

It's full of Scots?

 

"you're a mad man..."
Heh heh hahahahaahaa I have come to the right place then

 

I'm getting a little tired of New England winters. So I hope to go somewhere warmer (but not hot). I was in Santa Barbara, CA and really loved the weather there and it's a perfect sized city with lots to do. But it's expensive. Of I ever expatriates, New Zealnd all the way!!

 

Please nobody say Florida. All I can think about is how hot it is here and how anyone survives without a working air conditioner. I feel like I'm about to have a heat stroke.

 

What you didn’t enjoy those 3 nor’easters in a row which caused massive coastal erosion, heavy rain, and in one storm heavy wet snow which brought down trees
and powerlines leaving tens of thousands in the the cold and in the dark?