You don't like Madeira anymore?
hah, so, i've been thinking a lot about which mountain region i want to move to in the future, and i had been thinking only of the eastern rockies and southern siberia
but then as i was randomly reminded of yugoslavia by this youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@kuhinjatanja and i was like, yeah, nah, i know where i'm going... i know the language a bit, i know the culture, i know a lot of their history, i know the land is beautiful, it is nice and cold in winter, and it's in a good spot that won't really change much if the projected axis tilt is in the offing
Ben from SO doesn't really talk much about the balkans but the western balkans definitely are a good spot, although a little close to the mediterranean, that is a small body of water compared to the pacific or atlantic, and the western part of the balkans in particular is very high altitude on average
i loved it in Bosnia, so i guess i'm gonna go back there
just instantly as the thought of the basements full of jars of meat and fermented salad and the smell of schlivovitsa comes to mind and i melt
just need money, so, i must work, and stack, and work and stack and work and stack
until i can buy my little mountain plot and build my bunker and plant my plum grove and build my goat fences and goat dairy and chicken coop and all those wonderful things... build up a big collection of important literature, and build a doomsday library
it's my idea of a great way to spend the second act of my play
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no it's not that, i don't want to buy land here when i know sooner or later in the span of my life it is likely to get hit by kilometre high tsunamis
i've already seen minor stuff on the coast road over to Ponta Delgada, and other people i've talked to about it are also like "yeah, eventually something has gotta happen"
Wow i see, I didn't know that was a concern there, nice to know, planning to visit the island soon in any case 👌
yeah, nah, nothing a problem probably for at least 5 years i think, certainly not if you are at over 300M altitude, there is not a lotta tsunami risk here really, it's an outlier but that's something that cycles suggest is coming in the next few decades
honestly, from the info i've seen it is possible it is actually a safe place in such an event, certainly anywhere over 1km altitude
Same reason I moved away from the ocean. Extreme weather getting worse and worse. We're in the mountains inland now. I miss the culture and the thrill of almost dying several times a year but leaving was sensible.