having actually lived in many other places, actually there is a lot of areas you can just roam around in very often, most parts of the balkans there were hiking tracks and forests and parks, but the language thing is not easy... having said that, spanish is probably one of the easiest languages to learn, as it's really close to english in its grammar and many of its latin roots

personally, i don't want to ever live in a city anywhere ever again... i mean, out of all the cities i've lived in, probably Sofia was the best and Sarajevo was runner up but my most fond memories in strange places have been rural or semi-rural

there is always land that is unsuitable for urbanisation or agriculture or industry everywhere, too slopy, too high altitude, too rocky, everywhere, but you often don't see it mentioned in information about the places... i remember walking through some amazing semi-wilderness parkland in italy in several areas both in the north and south of the country

the other side to this is whatever your job is, if you are stuck in a location for the work, you have to have savings to make a transition to elsewhere

i'm right now in this position, but i got into a semirural area and i've integrated pretty well with the local people but i do want to go somewhere colder, more high up, and where english is the first language, and i don't want to even have as many people around me as i have now, i'd rather barely even hear their vehicles in the distance let alone not even that, if possible

that takes a lot of organising and planning, so, i think it's not just fear but not enough time or priority for the change, and not enough savings

the most evil thing about the fiat system is how it steals savings, and the most beautiful thing about bitcoin is how it gives it back