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

@skinnylatte right there with you. My retirement dream is to live someplace interesting where I don't have a car. Unfortunately I am probably too big (6'4" and extremely clutzy) to live in a typical high density city apartment with my spouse, so I'm still trying to figure that out.