I’m talking primary residence, ie where you spend the majority of your time, because Hypothetical You is rich and you have many homes.
Personally, the variables I’m maximizing are: freedom, meeting intellectual needs (living in the middle of nowhere is free but the intellectual density is low), and vibe (which is probably a measure of the density of artists).
Reykjavik. The most beautiful place on earth (well, not the city itself, but the island.) The most interesting people, collectively, that I've ever encountered.
Last trip, we met a young woman who was a national-level sharpshooter, the lead singer in a punk band, and ran a business of some kind, I forget what. So many stories like that, random people just so alive and full of agency and curiosity. I agree with vibe being one of your criteria, that's the vibe I want.
Food is terrible, though, and more expensive than anywhere I've ever been. Staggering how expensive it was -- and I mean the prices in grocery stores, not swank restaurants. You'd have to be rich to eat well there.
The puffin is quite tasty though
And those 13C summer heatwaves, and a 6 months long day followed by a 6 months long night. No, thanks. The latitude I live at is already silly enough.
I'd probably buy a large piece of land in Costa Rica. I have many friends there, they're in a valley a bit inland, but not far from the coast and the nearest beach has a bitcoin ATM and a market where merchants accept BTC. Plus it's not far from Uvita, home to the Bitcoin Jungle and Nostrica.
I hear that 14 year olds are all out getting blackout drunk and having easy sex all the time in Reykjavik.
Back to my roots in Italy.
Its a tough question...
Countries that are attractive today (the west) seem to be in a decline. Some so called "developing countries" are on the rise, but when are they ready to be moved into. There will be a time soon that it will become clearer.
Property rights are still most important. And that leaves a few states in the US. That why most of the richest people still live there.
100% on developing countries but if money isn’t an issue you can probably make them ready
Not if they can take all your sh$t
Oh true
Southcoast of Crete where I actually am 3 months every year. It's a small village without traffic. Lovely place to read and write.
I am assuming you are doing this during the winter, which is exactly what I am also planning to try. But I was wondering how do you deal with the cold down there... While temperatures are of course higher than in continental Europe, I would assume that a 10° in an unheated and uninsulated stone house is much more painful than a -20° in an apartment in Eastern Europe...
No, I always stay there from mid of March to the end of April and from October to mid of November. Windy, 2-3 rainy days but lovely weather. Still 8-10 hours of sun and temp between 20 and 26 degrees. The southcoast has its own micro climate
Also, if you don't mind me asking, how do you rent a place for a month or two there? Just AirBnB? I assume that in low season it would be better to just talk directly to the owners and pay for a month upfront.
I know the owner for nearly 20 years now. We have a ''deal''. Got my stuff there and it's easy traveling without luggage.
Makes sense. Exactly what I expected. Guess I'll have to do some work to get to that level, but it could end up being a pretty comfortable 2nd home after that.
Yes. But people there have an instinct for trustworthy guests. You will see when You will be coming back
Do you have any idea how comfortable it would be from January to March? Hard to find this info because it is really not absolute temperatures in bigger cities that matter... Is heating done with ACs?
Might try October, but really it is mid January to mid March I am trying to escape from where I stay, since it is gloomy and all I do is burn wood. October-November is still great, grapes are just getting ripe!
October-November is a great time without any tourism in November. But the winter months are tough. You need a chimney to keep You dry on days with a lot of humidity because houses were mainly constructed decades ago. Dec-Feb I can't recommend
Bad news, but I somehow expected it. Thanks for saving me the trouble. I guess the alternative is an apartment in a big city in Crete during that time, but that kinda defeats the purpose of spending time in Crete.
Yes. The center of Chania for example is deadin the winter season. But one tecommendation in case You go to the south between April and November: make this little boat trip from Paleochora to Chora Sfakion and stay one night in every of these lovely places. No cars, just nature and peace. Here You get a first glance: https://www.sfakia-crete.com/sfakia-crete/ferries.html
Here in Loutro You will spend a dinner You'll never forget in Your life! https://loutro.gr/en/e-loutro
Amazing, thanks! This also answered the question I didn't dare to ask, for being too private - SE or SW? And how to move between places in the SW, since there are no roads.
When my shares in Stacker News pay dividends and i become rich, i would live i nthe Ex Machina House with monthly helicopter drops:
The most unrealistic thing from the ex-machina movie was that the guy who invented and worked on this amazing new thing was actually an alcoholic.
No way you can do all that work while drinking and being hung over.
Good points. In an attempt to devils advocate, he may have become that AFTER his success.
The hedonistic treadmill is such that having all the sex, land and privacy he wanted, he may have gotten extremely bored.
Also, just realized the drunkeness explains his lapse in security, making her too smart and not black boxed somehow until verifiable alignment.
Personally, i have a technique against that.
You honestly can't think of one successful alcoholic? It's not good for you, obviously, but there have definitely been some hard working and prolific drunks. Here's an article that lists a few.
Note how pretty much all of them are not in exact sciences like math or physics, software, etc.
Riiiiiiight.... so they must mean Buzz Aldrin the painter, then?
Wasn't it common for people to drink A LOT back during the space program ?
You're telling me the ruskies were not alcholics.
I agree with you in general, and personally.
Oh and Mcaffee....lol
He became an alcoholic after coming back from the moon. No similar success story after that.
Oof. Yes to the things, no to the Ex Machina.
Why do you not want a loving sexbot with perfect body symmetry in every major racial group, are you racist or something ?
lol, You have seen that movie, right? It's an allegory of the abuse of a cult leader on their victim. Honestly, I haven't even watched it all the way through because it's so transparent what the script is from the first 20 minutes. It's a variant of the Midas Touch fable, or similar, about the trap of material satisfaction without any soul or principles to rely on, it boils down to reptilian power relations.
NOPE. wow.
You should watch it through, you missed the real message.
After you watch it, consider how many movies you've skipped over like this and how your life is a sham.
Ecstasy, knowledge, power, abundance... all of them tools used by the psychopath who wants to be the centre of attention, the locus of control. Maybe it's because I'm in my middle years and my libido isn't as big a driver of my motivation, I would suggest that there is a big gulf between charisma and genuine sexual ecstasy, and that the sex is just the tool used to soften up the victims to make them oblivious to what is really going on.
The reason why I turned it off, was because I could see within the exposition the hollowness of every character in the play, that the robot was being portrayed as a victim but also is involuntarily programmed to play the same power games with the visitor as she was trained to do by her master. To me it was just another variant of the cult leader story, and the inevitable evil that follows their apotheosis (in their mind).
I turned it off for the same reason I turned off Scarface before the end of the first act of the play. It was just porn for people who fantasize about being powerful, and this is a kind of cult in itself, I have seen and interacted with many such people. Just go talk to "satanists" and other types of edgelording. They think this mind games shit is fun, and think the resultant horrors are the punchline.
It's only funny if you don't realise that's what is going on around you every day, in the media, in the town, in the country...
That's not what the movie is about ! Nor Scarface.
Please consider that you might be going through life completely misunderstanding everything !
The cage is for your safety !
It's morbid, to dwell on the inevitable entropy of the universe, without any hope of better.
Life is already dark enough without spending 2 hours watching some of the worst kinds of human behaviour, without any sense of justice or closure or resolution.
If you don't get it, I don't have time to explain it to you.
Spaceship. I'd build a asteroid home and make a retirement community in space
switzerland or el salvador
+1 on sui
already there....
Somewhere sunny and evenly warm throughout the year, a small island in the Caribbean.
Regardless of if I had a decent amount or a lot of money, I'd go live in the Dominican Republic.
Some place where the people aren't so perverted as to have lawns of grass that need constant mowing and blowing. Where I currently live, they mow and blow their lawns whenever the temperature is above 50F -- yes, even when the grass is totally dormant and no leaves have fallen for months. I can only assume that the majority of people in my neighborhood are totally deaf due to old age, because they all pay for the loudest possible lawncare (e.g. 2 mowers and 2 blowers for 30-60 minutes) and they are all okay with the volume of noise.
somewhere coastal and obscure, maybe portugal or greece
Where I live now but I would buy a vacant lakefront lot and build my own house from the ground up if I sat next to the fiat printer.
Nashville. Music & Bitcoin Park.
Superman's Fortres of Solitude in Antartic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_of_Solitude
i’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be one place.
we’re all multi-faceted and so i think it makes sense that we have different places that serve different aspects of our lives.
switzerland for outdoor adventures, austin for bitcoin discussions, japan for food, etc…
Somewhere different every few weeks.
You're probably a bitcoin millionaire, already looking at a certain country and want to find a safer place. Am I on to you? )) Seriously, Switzerland. The US is good too
The most important aspect regardless of where in the world: your neighbors/community
Money isn't an issue?
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Venezuela is a great country, best weather on earth, amazing scenary and happy people everywhere.
that is...not...what i know about venezuela lol.
I know.
The economy is bad as shit, but the country itself is great!
That's good to know !
I was asking the same question myself, will there be a place where they respect your financial freedom and free speech? Good luck living in any country which is a WEF ally.
I would live in a village close to the water.
In that situation I would probably live in multiple cities around the world, I wouldn't stay in a single place for too long, maybe one or two months at each place, depending on the weather and other factors.
I would also not just forever start from zero, I would have maybe around 6 main cities around the world.
In a VAN.
Anywhere that anarchist hillbillies are the majority of residents. Usually that comes at the cost of isolation and reduced access to markets but I'll take the solitude of a wilderness any day over the loneliness of a crowd.
I guess here in California even though I like talking smack about it. Family's been here since the gold rush. All buried here. It's enough.
I would just move back in a nice but readonnable in my home city in Switzerland, to be close to family and friends. The most basic house there is around 2 millions, resonnable nice one 3 to 5 millions. In any case you must be lucky to find any house well located there. A 3 bedroom appartement can cost 3k+ easily, and nice one more lile 4k+ once all cost added, I couldn't afford it for my family so we had to move to a cheaper area (about half these prices).
Same latitude that I am no matter the country but in a house like this https://imgprxy.stacker.news/jFKOwcCgXu8KfcMne9WSIkluLxSwiRr_nknTAZ1PB3A/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29ueWVhdHJhbnNmb3JtYXRpb25zLmNvbS93cC1jb250ZW50L3VwbG9hZHMvc2l0ZXMvMy8yMDE4LzA4LzAzLUFmdGVyLVdvb2RidXJ5LVJlbm92YXRpb24tU3B0LUN0LUFkZC5qcGc
It's not. Texas.
Vice City circa 1986.
San Diego. 70 and sunny every day! Great food culture access to the pacific.
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