Suicide rates in Greenland are among the highest on the planet. It may seem idyllic but it’s apparently crushingly lonely and oppressive.
Anon wants to go to Nuuk
Submitted 8 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 8 months ago
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 8 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
Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
At least not for another 20 years or so anyway.
piccolo@ani.social 8 months ago
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Could be that you’re just one of the people who aren’t affected by it.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not with that attitude Anon won’t.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
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
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
doingthestuff@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s a lot harder if you have a family.
alehc@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Lot harder if you are from a third world country.
Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Not with that latitude either
umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
frezik@midwest.social 8 months ago
That’s the kind of picture that would get you a great career in Hallmark Christmas cards.
Comment105@lemm.ee 8 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.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
literally abandoned
So the library shut down, then?
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It was figuratively abandoned too
They took the mannequins
FatCrab@lemmy.one 8 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@programming.dev 8 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
repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 8 months ago
no war
Greenland is a super strategic place in the Northern Atlantic “theatre”
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 8 months ago
no politics
This anon has never attended a HOA meeting and argued with their fascist neighbors about building a playground.
Eiri@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Are HOAs even a thing outside of the US ? I know I’ve never seen that concept here in Canada at least.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Time to blow up their swingset in retalation.
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I live in a small town in Northern England, I also have no war.
That is your Greenland has politics though because you know it’s a country.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Greenland is not a country though, it’s part of Denmark, although it has autonomy
Hupf@feddit.org 8 months ago
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 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 8 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.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Even a few people might be sign of it starting to snowball (heh) so might make the people there upset.
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I thought this was someone emulating Wurtz’ style
I shall seek punishments in Antarctica
nutsack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
wavy building to do concerts nobody is doing concerts in that are you nuts
SSJMarx@lemm.ee 8 months ago
wavy building to do concerts
nobody is doing concerts in that are you nuts
Frank Gehry, you madman! You made the Walt Disney Concert Hall far too wavy!
atocci@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Bill please come back
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 8 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 8 months ago
It won’t be calm for now with all those toddlers running around, climbing things and getting into a ruckus
randombullet@programming.dev 8 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.
nutsack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
you can’t just go to these places they will rip off your nuts
EnderMB@lemmy.world 8 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 8 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 town of the country 25 km away
MadBob@feddit.nl 8 months ago
I remember reading a news story about a group of hikers who’d accidentally got off the last train at this station: www.osmap.nl/#15/56.7603/-4.6888
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Interestingly, Nuuk is actually Inuit for ”New York”.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fact of the day. New Yorkers have 50 different ways to say go fuck yourself.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 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.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Well, i had a good laugh, thanks for that
Turious@leaf.dance 8 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.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
step foot
Bone apple tea!
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 8 months ago
lowered_lifted@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I have this same feel about Aland, or some little mountain towns in Mexico.
lowered_lifted@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
there’s a lot of cool little towns oop north though like may I interest you in Gaspe, QC?
lowered_lifted@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Dildo, Newfoundland is a little sleepier but probably fits the bill
nick@midwest.social 7 months ago
Fuck, does it look cold there. and I live in friggin Ohio!
10_0@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Save up and go live there, you have nothing to lose anon
PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
A bag of potato chips costs like $30 in Nuuk
tjebutski@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It only costs 35 kr ($5.20)
twinnie@feddit.uk 8 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.
lauha@lemmy.one 8 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.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Grew up in a small village. Immediately moved to a big city as soon as I could.
twinnie@feddit.uk 8 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.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 8 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
Kacarott@aussie.zone 8 months ago
One might consider it the nuuklear option
Comment105@lemm.ee 8 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.
maps.app.goo.gl/XsBiTGU5qMxJzzCb8?g_st=ac
HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 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 8 months ago
That has been pretty much my life lately here in Ottawa. I’ll take boring any day over busy, overcrowded cities.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
They’re making new people at a surprising rate in some of the places most impacted by climate change. You may need to adjust your expectations as resettling the residents of these at-risk places becomes a bigger effort.
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Oh shit what? No drunk people roaming around the streets? What a nightmare
bstix@feddit.dk 8 months ago
A bottle of Jaxk 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.
lowered_lifted@sh.itjust.works 7 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