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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Mon, 31 August 2026, 20:29:04
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Something inside Tp4 is saying, Tp4 , you should go to Siberia.
No one goes outside.
It's all about staying indoors.
In case of zombies, they will freeze before crossing mongolia. and those mountains.
The drawback of course, in a world sparse of energy, Places like Canada / Siberia may not be economically sustainable.
But perhaps, with climate apocalypse, they would become temperate in 30 years time.
Also minimizes problems with pandemics, at least for now.
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You'd ****ing hate it tp. Imagine not having internet 6 months out of the year.
And good luck getting deliveries on time... or at all.
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The more Tp4 looks into siberia, the better it seems.
You can buy a soviet apartmnet for next to nothing. No bugs, it's cold 9 months of the year.
The 1 problem is the people eat alot of meat, high diabetes/cancer/heart disease place. So it's a tragic sort of lot healthwise.
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I'm not so sure. From what I've learned Siberia is about as far north as where I live, but unlike Western Europe they don't get the benefit of the Gulf Stream to stabilise their climate. So, it does supposedly get very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter.
No bugs? Really? Northern Sweden and Finland have moors that are highly infested with mosquitoes in the summer -- and Siberia is by land from here. Iceland has managed to stay mosquito-free though, because it is an island.
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Few enough bugs to be hassle free. Surely it's not 100%.
But the cost of living, wayyy lower.... Tp4 wants to go there, start gam3r cafe.
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They literally have a term in Siberia that translates to 'mosquito tornado'
and the Artic genes are HUUUUGE
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Point is, we should go take out $20m loan, and go be slumlords.
Heck you can even do it in the US.
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The trouble in the US is there aren't any supr nice soviet Khrushchevkas you can buy.
It's at best mobile homes, which are okkkkk, but they're not easy to rig up for central management.
For example, with mobile homes, the distance is farther per person, so if you need to provide good internet, You either got alot of wires, or lots of repeaters, with less utilization and is messy.
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I think you have the same semi-romantic idea of living in Siberia, as I do of being a nomadic yak herder in the Mongolian tundra.
fun to dream of who we might discover ourselves be under that big-open-sky
that's a hard-dedicate. I don't have the balls to do that ****.
You gotta have nothing to lose, or infinite lives
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I don't have the balls to do that ****.
A week in the high desert a couple of times a year might be pretty satisfying.
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Looked into Yakutsk.
At first it looks cool, but they have a winter smog problem, where the mining/oil extraction would settle dust/debris in the winter, and because there's little wind, and they're in a bowl space of a valley, perhaps months long, they get bad pollution.