YoMomma ·
i fancy Israel but to each their own.. my small town in nw florida isn't bad in terms of pricing and space just a bit empty for now but growing faster lately you'd probably be happier some place like the west coast of cali .. it's super pricy out there but if you had a friend to crash at or a pre approved job placement you could land on your feet out there .. lots of peace nature type groups out there that seem your speed not to mention the beach and mild weather
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swirlie · 31-35
@swirlie how was it for you?
Where I went in Greenland was a very secluded west coastal town that is very close to Canada's Baffin Island, a town called 'Qaanaaq'. That town lies at the entrance to a meandering fiord and which for the most part is an ice-free zone during summer. Fortunately we went there in July. This place lies a short distance north of Thule Greenland.
I'm self-employed in the nautical marine business and I went to Qaanaaq to have a look at purchasing a heavily damaged private ocean yacht that had made it that far without sinking, after striking an ice berg somewhere along its journey and basically limping into the closest public port, which is just inside the fiord and slightly inland of Qaanaaq.
I went there with my two business partners and a girlfriend of mine from Sweden who's a propulsion engineer for Volvo Marine in Sweden. This was to be a fact-finding mission which would only last about one day at the most, possibly two if things looked hopeful.
As it turned out, we spent 5 nights there in total because Qaanaaq is like a small town with all the modern conveniences of life, including a swinging hot spot in the middle of town. There, you can disco-dance until 5am to all the top 40 hits from 1970 and do it beneath a giant rotating disco ball hanging from the ceiling that adds a special ambiance to the Club's energy.
Yes, there I was showing off all my pent-up disco moves on the octagonal wooden dance floor until I finally earned the "Dancing Queen of the Month" award, which included a picture of me in the Club's front window for 30 days to follow! Yes, I was truly humbled!
They have a supermarket there, a hardware store, post office, utilities commission, tour boat operator, large marina for large pleasure boats, plus hourly mini-bus service for those who desire to hang out on a glacier to sunbath in a concave-shaped ice cavern.
Those ice caverns are shaped like a cereal bowl and their concave shape directs all sunlight toward the center of the bowl as it reflects off the ice where it can get quite hot and create ice melt which is like bath water! This of course meant that us 3 girls in our party of 4 were wearing bikinis while hanging out in the bottom of the bowl with my lone male business partner... but only until the sun started to tilt and things cooled off pretty fast!
Then, we took the mini-bus back to town where we stayed in a 3 star hotel on the main street... which was clean, efficient and quiet with no bells or whistles, but had a great 24 hour restaurant.
FreeorLonely · 51-55, F
FreeorLonely · 51-55, F
@Boeing I near Vancouver and we get similar weather so I’m used to it, but I think it rains less there.
KatyO83 · 41-45, F
@FreeorLonely really? have you seen our next Prime Minister?
jackjones68 · 51-55, M
How did we get to where we are ! Why do we make a home in a world that is home?
Does any other creature on earth make a home like how we do ?
Why do we alone love to build a wall around us ? Why do we alone wish to remain in a state and not be nomadic like other creatures ?
Doesn't us make us the Aliens on earth?
Does any other creature on earth make a home like how we do ?
Why do we alone love to build a wall around us ? Why do we alone wish to remain in a state and not be nomadic like other creatures ?
Doesn't us make us the Aliens on earth?
Boeing · 36-40
@in10RjFox Get out "where" ... ? Out to a nomadic lifestyle, that is the context of our conversation.
By nomadic lifestyle what do we mean? Nowadays digital nomads living in expensive hotels in Thailand? Circus caravans, the gipsies, the Mongolian tribes?
In our history -which we can agree that we can doubt about- it is said that there have been historically nomadic tribes and non-nomadic.
I grew up on a greek island. It's warm here, even in the winter, there is the sea around, there are water springs, it is a loving land, why to leave? People around the Mediterranean have similar experience. People stay at their land, they create songs and dances about it, they love their land.
There are communities around the world that are cultivating values that we agree with mostly, caring for the earth and the soil, providing for all, natural foods, less pollution, beautiful environments.
One doesn't need to be a nomad but I see your point of ownership. That later creates the will to put up the first fence, that later becomes a border of a country that exists in our own imagination and we draw lines on the land. And then we fight each other, just like animals do, when one pack goes to hunt at the territory of another for resources. We are not that different, only that we carry greater knowledge and egos, and as you point, looking at What's Next, we fill ourselves with fear and greed, to want more, to store houses with goods and gold, for the winter to come and for the next of our lives and even store goods for the lives of our children and their children.
I was driven towards this lifestyle out of my wish to experience the world in a low budget, working a little, working with what presents itself in front of me, studying, volunteering, clearing myself. It is a highly rewarding but also tough live for the body.
To not have access to much warmth always, to not have regular meals, to sometimes getting misunderstood by different cultures and environments, there are plenty of challenges in that nomadic lifestyle and of course I am not a master of it. A nomadic tribe is most certainly having lots to offer to each other, than being a solo nomad, that I can imagine.
But what I say about comfort is at the base of this and I am taking all this time to write and to talk to you because I believe, from my personal experience, that comfort is a great value of our civilization.
If you go along and follow a nomadic lifestyle, you will understand by experience what a prolonged time of minimal comfort does to the human body and psych.
Sure gurus speak wonderful words when they say things like "you can only truly rest when you are truly tired" and this is true, the connection to life is deepening .. but investigate for yourself more regarding what we call "comfort".
I'm talking from the feminine side as well, we're known to look for more comfort - understandable, bleeding, carrying children and all.
There are prolonged sequences of comfort moments that make for domesticated animals,
there are prolonged sequences of not enough comfort moments that make wilder animals.
(I include human when I refer to animal.)
We all get bruised more or less, some more some less.
By nomadic lifestyle what do we mean? Nowadays digital nomads living in expensive hotels in Thailand? Circus caravans, the gipsies, the Mongolian tribes?
In our history -which we can agree that we can doubt about- it is said that there have been historically nomadic tribes and non-nomadic.
I grew up on a greek island. It's warm here, even in the winter, there is the sea around, there are water springs, it is a loving land, why to leave? People around the Mediterranean have similar experience. People stay at their land, they create songs and dances about it, they love their land.
There are communities around the world that are cultivating values that we agree with mostly, caring for the earth and the soil, providing for all, natural foods, less pollution, beautiful environments.
One doesn't need to be a nomad but I see your point of ownership. That later creates the will to put up the first fence, that later becomes a border of a country that exists in our own imagination and we draw lines on the land. And then we fight each other, just like animals do, when one pack goes to hunt at the territory of another for resources. We are not that different, only that we carry greater knowledge and egos, and as you point, looking at What's Next, we fill ourselves with fear and greed, to want more, to store houses with goods and gold, for the winter to come and for the next of our lives and even store goods for the lives of our children and their children.
I was driven towards this lifestyle out of my wish to experience the world in a low budget, working a little, working with what presents itself in front of me, studying, volunteering, clearing myself. It is a highly rewarding but also tough live for the body.
To not have access to much warmth always, to not have regular meals, to sometimes getting misunderstood by different cultures and environments, there are plenty of challenges in that nomadic lifestyle and of course I am not a master of it. A nomadic tribe is most certainly having lots to offer to each other, than being a solo nomad, that I can imagine.
But what I say about comfort is at the base of this and I am taking all this time to write and to talk to you because I believe, from my personal experience, that comfort is a great value of our civilization.
If you go along and follow a nomadic lifestyle, you will understand by experience what a prolonged time of minimal comfort does to the human body and psych.
Sure gurus speak wonderful words when they say things like "you can only truly rest when you are truly tired" and this is true, the connection to life is deepening .. but investigate for yourself more regarding what we call "comfort".
I'm talking from the feminine side as well, we're known to look for more comfort - understandable, bleeding, carrying children and all.
There are prolonged sequences of comfort moments that make for domesticated animals,
there are prolonged sequences of not enough comfort moments that make wilder animals.
(I include human when I refer to animal.)
We all get bruised more or less, some more some less.
@Boeing 😱That was some downpour. What you describe is called a "settlement". Nomadic lifestyle is not just going from place to place, but also mingle with different kind of people. It must not be the same group where you move like a herd. You go to a place where people come from different places and you get to know complete strangers and the group splits .. like a constant scatter gather.
ScreamingFox · 41-45, F
The clouds
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Boeing · 36-40
@StygianKohlrabi why Ireland and @swirlie how was it for you?
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StygianKohlrabi · 46-50, M
@Boeing it's in the news a lot lately. lots of opportunity and a great time to emigrate. can you speak Danish?
@Boeing it would…
Boeing · 36-40
@pituitarypendulum that is a good answer, thank you.
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