i don't understand the desire to run away and live on one's own away from people. i want to live among many different types of people, who will all feed me delicious things. i would be absolutely miserable in an isolated place.

One of my constraints around ‘places to live’ is, I have never, not once in my life lived somewhere where I need to ‘get into a private vehicle and travel somewhere else to food or things’. I’ve always lived in ultra dense big cities (SF being the smallest one), and so that sort of walkable or bus or train type situation, going round the corner in my pajamas to get galangal, or to to the fishmonger, instead of big box stores and cars, is just broadly what I prefer. And there aren’t that many places to live like that this side of the world

I think I would be extremely depressed if I changed that

I couldn’t even walk 10 steps of my house yesterday without my neighbor forcing me to take a giant ‘zongzi’ (Chinese rice ‘tamale’ eaten for some special occasions)

I also got fed homemade soy milk so I’m happy

i think i might be able to live in say, the thai or indonesian or taiwanese countryside (basically somewhere where i am culturally familiar) but i do not think i can live somewhere where countryside means 'nobody like me for 100 miles' and even then i think the step down in diversity would be a challenge too
@skinnylatte
Yeah, that is often underestimated by dreaming of the countryside. It's important there are people who understand who you are. I can see my wife still struggles with that at times, even though it's not the countryside.