[binary visions]

I recall rural Italy paying people to move to their hollowing out country towns. Not sure wrt remote employment, amenities, etc. but something for y'all to ponder and daydream about

I looked seriously at this. It's doable, the problem is the towns with these programs were doing so because nobody wanted to live there - for a reason. Buy a house for $1, but it'll cost you $60k in repairs to just get it livable, and ridiculous timelines imposed by the limited options for labor and supplies. Hope you're good with whatever wilted produce and canned food the local shop has, during the 12 hours/week they're open.

Some of the towns are pretty, but it's a very pastoral life - great if all you want to do is putter around your place, drink at the one local bar, or sit out and read the newspaper with a cappuccino - but it's pretty limiting. You won't find an interesting restaurant for miles around, and I hope you aren't looking for a local biking club or climbing group or anything.

Not to say a good life couldn't be had in Europe, just those particular Italian programs looked like something that would be lovely for 6 months and provide a lot of nice Instagram pictures... but then maybe be a recipe to start constructing a hedge maze and have conversations with imaginary bartenders.

 

[kidwoo]

You won't find an interesting restaurant for miles around

 

[binary visions]

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Sorry, is it unfashionable to like food now? I'm out of the loop.

 

[kidwoo]

Sorry, is it unfashionable to like food now? I'm out of the loop.

No but reducing entire towns and regions down to the quality of the cuisine it can serve you is the whitest thing ever.

 

[stevew]

@Toshi

 

[stevew]

biggest gripe with denver....it has atlanta traffic...

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Sorry, is it unfashionable to like food now? I'm out of the loop.

Everything us unfashionable to @redwoo.

 

[kidwoo]

Everything us unfashionable to @redwoo.

Sorry to disturb your brunch.

Red? Woo?

hey you're the one who was a paying member of a group with socialist in the name


commie!

 

[SkaredShtles]

Semi-serious thread tangent:

Could Poops' desired life be found in Europe for a reasonable price? I recall rural Italy paying people to move to their hollowing out country towns. Not sure wrt remote employment, amenities, etc. but something for y'all to ponder and daydream about

I don't think you'd want to attempt this with kids, unless you were *fully* committed to homeschooling. Also - I think
Poops may need to work, what with having like 9 kids...

 

[kidwoo]

I don't think you'd want to attempt this with kids, unless you were *fully* committed to homeschooling. Also - I think
Poops may need to work, what with having like 9 kids...

most countries (understandably so) don't want us


unless we're someone totally valuable to society like johnny depp

 

[stoney]

No but reducing entire towns and regions down to the quality of the cuisine it can serve you is the whitest thing ever.

Come to HR. I will let @binary visions define it.

 

[binary visions]

No but reducing entire towns and regions down to the quality of the cuisine it can serve you is the whitest thing ever.

Uh. Okay. Your reading comprehension isn't very good.

I listed a number of ways in which these towns were very isolated and limiting in options. Restaurants seemed like a useful proxy. I also listed grocery stores, bars, and local social groups. Are there specific types of things people like to do that meet an acceptably "non-white" threshold?

 

[SkaredShtles]

Come to HR. I will let @binary visions define it.

Hey... you guys have a Red Robin, right??

 

[kidwoo]

Come to HR. I will let @binary visions define it.

All I know about highlands ranch is that southpark made fun of it in a movie

 

[jonKranked]

Uh. Okay. Your reading comprehension isn't very good.

I listed a number of ways in which these towns were very isolated and limiting in options. Restaurants seemed like a useful proxy. I also listed grocery stores, bars, and local social groups. Are there specific types of things people like to do that meet an acceptably "non-white" threshold?

kevin is like a hippopotamus anymore. he just helicopters poop onto everything in range.

 

[stoney]

All I know about highlands ranch is that southpark made fun of it in a movie

It's worse. Think Danville.

 

[stevew]

All I know about highlands ranch is that southpark made fun of it in a movie

living up to my title....never watched a episode...

 

[kidwoo]

Uh. Okay. Your reading comprehension isn't very good.

I listed a number of ways in which these towns were very isolated and limiting in options. Restaurants seemed like a useful proxy. I also listed grocery stores, bars, and local social groups. Are there specific types of things people like to do that meet an acceptably "non-white" threshold?

My reading is fine, it was a lighthearted joke with the pic. And a VERY long running theme of white people of means traveling the globe and using the "authenticity" of tacos to judge an area's worth. I live in one of these towns who's entire merit is based solely on the quality of the service some asshole from out of town got, all completely oblivious to the people who actually live there.

 

[stoney]

kevin is like a hippopotamus anymore. he just helicopters poop onto everything in range.

Did I ever tell you about when I saw that at the zoo? It was amazing. And disgusting. And fucking amazing. If the hippo's out of the water, stay away.

 

[kidwoo]

Danville.

(I don't actually know anything about danville)

 

[kidwoo]

kevin is like a hippopotamus anymore. he just helicopters poop onto everything in range.

much like you're mean to patriots™


Is it fun to play pretend like that and deliberately not recognize it's always a few very specific things?

 

[SkaredShtles]

Did I ever tell you about when I saw that at the zoo? It was amazing. And disgusting. And fucking amazing. If the hippo's out of the water, stay away.

 

[kidwoo]

been there

 

[jonKranked]

much like you're mean to patriots


Is it fun to play pretend like that and deliberately not recognize it's always a few very specific things?

yes, and you always seem to materialize when those topics come up as if someone said your name 3 times like beetlejuice

 

[kidwoo]

yes, and you always seem to materialize when those topics come up as if someone said your name 3 times like beetlejuice

I didn't materialize anywhere, I was talking about locations to move just like everyone else in this thread. Been posting about other things related to that the entire time.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

Sorry to disturb your brunch.

Red? Woo?

hey you're the one who was a paying member of a group with socialist in the name


commie!

You wrote 47 paragraphs raving about qualification for redneck status, remember?

I do not think that the concept of communism is without merit. I do think that the Russian's implementation of the philosophy was Russian.

Now go back to your blowsnower and your brodozer and your big powered sled.

 

[kidwoo]

You wrote 47 paragraphs raving about qualification for redneck status, remember?

I do not think that the concept of communism is without merit. I do think that the Russian's implementation of the philosophy was Russian.

Now go back to your blowsnower and your brodozer and your big powered sled.

I was correcting rideit, resident of the wealthiest community in the nation, that's different

I thought you were referencing the earlier red/blue state stuff.

You do know I don't own a brodozer right? My truck has all the clearance of a dodge caravan. I've had mountainbikes that cost more than that truck did.

 

[stoney]

That has a surprisingly far range.

 

[stoney]

Colorado conversation -> that direction.

This thread >^><<~∆><€$°

 

[Poops McDougal]

Colorado conversation -> that direction.

This thread >^><<~∆><€$°

I started this thread with clear eyes and an open mind; I knew full well what would happen eventually.

 

[binary visions]

My reading is fine, it was a lighthearted joke with the pic. And a VERY long running theme of white people of means traveling the globe and using the "authenticity" of tacos to judge an area's worth. I live in one of these towns who's entire merit is based solely on the quality of the service some asshole from out of town got, all completely oblivious to the people who actually live there.

Fair enough.

The second part of your post - the fact that this is a real problem with stupid privileged travelers - is why it didn't land as a joke.

I stand by my comment about the rural Italian communities being a barren wasteland of entertainment, cultural, culinary, educational, or even grocery options. If you don't mind spending all of your time gardening and reading, though, it's certainly a cheap place to live.

 

[6thElement]

I started this thread with clear eyes and an open mind; I knew full well what would happen eventually.

My quote about compressing a fork to fit it in my bag for a flight has turned into a train discussion in the DH forum.

If you don't mind spending all of your time gardening and reading, though, it's certainly a cheap place to live.

That works for @SkaredShtles as long as he's not tested on the reading part

 

[SkaredShtles]

My quote about compressing a fork to fit it in my bag for a flight has turned into a train discussion in the DH forum.

That works for @SkaredShtles as long as he's not tested on the reading part

They told me there would be no tests.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

I was correcting rideit, resident of the wealthiest community in the nation, that's different

I thought you were referencing the earlier red/blue state stuff.

You do know I don't own a brodozer right? My truck has all the clearance of a dodge caravan. I've had mountainbikes that cost more than that truck did.

Yes I know, but that won't stop me from giving you shit.

 

[Toshi]

Language barrier, but Japan's also offering at least their citizens money to move to the countryside. Cheap houses in hollowed out places, and probably not as run down if my stereotypes hold true.

There are more than 8 million empty homes in rural Japan, and local governments are selling them for as little as $500 in a bid to lure residents

In Japan, local authorities are giving away renovation subsidies to incentivize people to move into the country's rural areas.

www.insider.com

 

[boostindoubles]

Not sure. The people I know there all are in the Meridian/Boise area, and I'm not sure I'd want to live there. Also, the "too red" thing is primarily why I'm looking closer at CO than ID at this moment.

If you road trip through WA, make sure and plan a stop in good ol Yakima. We are a strange mix of things but good for that quasi rural living and fresh fruit.

 

[kidwoo]

I stand by my comment about the rural Italian communities being a barren wasteland of entertainment, cultural, culinary, educational, or even grocery options.

Sounds like heaven. Should keep the patagonkies out.

Living in a resort town during covid with pleadings from the hospitals to not come here because the staff were sick and dying, and then watching the condescending outrage from an entire population bitching about the service, literally not caring about people dying because they wanted to go skiing or biking or some shit snapped something in me that will never go back. Maybe I was naive but the condescending entitlement directed towards everyone living in a rural area was something I'll never forget (or forgive). Much of this town was part of the 'fuck all y'all, I quit thing going on. You can only take so much screaming at your face for minimum wage.

So much news taken up with wage and housing talk, but none of it about the community, and all of it 100% focused around only how it affects 'the service'. Similar in execution, but I think locusts are less destructive than entitled white people.

 

[kidwoo]

I knew full well what would happen eventually.

you move to colorado?

 

[Poops McDougal]

you move to colorado?

That we'd wind up talking about hippo shit.

 

[kidwoo]

That we'd wind up talking about hippo shit.

"we"


How old are your kid(s)? The one red/blue state discussion definitely worth having is the bullshit some of them have enacted since the repeal of Roe v. Wade. I don't have kids but if I did, there's no way in hell I'd move to one of those handmade's tale states. That would take idaho off the list.