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No, I wouldn't move. I'm good with where I'm at. My town has 2 stoplights. It might get a third in a few years. I live 20 minutes from this:







One of my co-worker's kid is in this BBC article:
North Carolina's thermal inversion and rare sea of clouds

The few things to complain about are a lot of people are wanting to move here now and driving up the price of housing. The bicyclists on the road. Try passing a pack of 20 to 30 of them on curvy roads! You aren't.

Anyway, to minimize any encounters with others on my hikes in the woods I usually start my walks around 6:45AM. The tourists and non-early birds usually don't start getting into the woods until around 9ish. I found out that you find better solitude in the time, not the place of your choosing.

Those are amazing photos Chef! Thanks for sharing.

One of the nice things about Glasgow is that it is big enough to have pretty much everything that you could want without being a mega-city such as London, NYC etc. It still feels like a pretty small city - it's really an accretion of previous villages & towns which probably helps. Obviously, the internet & internet shopping has rendered some of the benefits of large cities moot but as PanzeyerMeyer mentions they do have cultural benefits.
You can also be out of Glasgow into the countryside or seaside in 20-40 minutes.

Even locally I struggle to identify somewhere "better" to move to than where I have lived for ~30 years without a significant financial input and/or a larger property than I need/want or something else that I consider being worse than currently situated.
If finances allowed though, I would like to summer in Scotland but winter somewhere further south, perhaps a different country every winter ... The west of Scotland in winter has short daylight hours & can be somewhat grey & wet (not really cold though by many Canadian/US & European standards).

Winter & healthcare concerns I guess are indicative of SimHQ's demographic profile these days.

Yup. SimHQ does seem to be largely populated by codgers these days. As Seinfeld would say though; "not that there's anything WRONG with that".

Yeah we are definatly the Shady Acres Retirement Home for Simmers. That's why I like it. How long before we have a shuffle board and Canasta thread forums? When will PM's list your top 10 medications thread starts?

Well I'm only 49 so hopefully it will be a good while before I post that!

When I feel the need for additional culture, I go visit oldgrognard.

I had a chuckle at that, and then looked at my current list of medications

Sounds a lot like Jackman. We have a small grocery store, a hardware store, 2 general-type stores, a gas station/convenience store, a NAPA, a few restaurants, and a few bars. 800 or so people, probably 75% of local jobs are forestry or lumber-related. I’m making good money at what I’d have to say is the best employer in town, working on trucks, trailers, and logging equipment. We’re right in the middle of the mountains of western Maine, the next closest town has 30 people, and the closest traffic light is about 70 miles away. It’s not uncommon to drive 30 miles at night without seeing another car.

Looking north toward Jackman (to right of the pond) from 3717’ Coburn Mountain last July.


Looking west toward Canada from the summit of 3639’ Boundary Bald Mountain last May.

While bushwhacking up Boundary Bald Mtn on snowshoes, Jan 2019. Looking west.

Yeah, at my advancing age, medical care is certainly a concern, and something that my friends that have that remote place are a little worried about. That's one reason I like the idea of being near a larger city. Also, I think growing up in a small city got that out of my system, and I like the idea of a larger city.

Here, I have been able to meet astronauts, go out for rides on a nuclear sub and an aircraft carrier, see The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, and even Gwen Stefani in concert, stuff that would probably never have happened where I grew up.

Since we're posting photos now, here are a few to illustrate my point:

This is the bustling metropolis of the city where I grew up:


And this is the downtown area from the city where I live now:


But just a few minutes drive from my house, I have places like this:




And with just a few hours drive, I can see stuff like this:


So I think I get a pretty good combination of urban and natural environments.

A friend move to Hawaii last year. She now regrets it, Wants to return to the States.

Did she say why? I know the cost of living there is quite high.

She's already in the States.

I guess he meant "continental US".

In a "money is no object" scenario I'd "move" alright - as in I'd have no house and be travelling all over the place doing things until I got too old for that lifestyle. After that I'd settle somewhere but I'd have no idea where - nearly anywhere can be a fine place to live if you've got plenty of money (and the ability to just get up and leave if you don't like it).

Cost too much and there is dirty beggars and derelicts every where.

Huummmpf. I’m just a dumb grunt.

I would move to Texas. But it's not going to happen, my wife hates spiders and snakes. Also I'd likely have to give up my Canadian health care. It's far from perfect, long waits are the norm. But it is free.
My sister is a snowbird, lives in Canada, but goes to Florida for the winter. But I am not in the position to own 2 homes. (she and her husband to own 3 properties).