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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Interestingly, Nuuk is actually Inuit for ”New York”.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I live in a small town in Northern England, I also have no war.

I'm sure Greenland has politics though, because you know, it's a country.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

no war

Greenland is a super strategic place in the Northern Atlantic "theatre"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Well, i had a good laugh, thanks for that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

This is called an eggcorn.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

you can't just go to these places they will rip off your nuts

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I thought this was someone emulating Wurtz' style

I shall seek punishments in Antarctica

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

wavy building to do concerts

nobody is doing concerts in that are you nuts

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 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.

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