Its a matter of whether you can be self-sufficient enough to appreciate the remoteness, as well as comfortable/willing/able to travel back to a town for your necessities (or what you consider necessities).
If it was a matter of a 20 minute drive back to town for work/groceries/luxuries, I could do it. If it was an hour through remote terrain that may not even be passable depending on weather, I'd honestly be uncomfortable-bordering-terrified.
These picturesque homes are a lot of maintenance, especially single homes. Broken elevations, water shortages, blackouts, dangerous animals nesting on your property, not to mention it takes shitload of work to actually get a house to the state you see in this video. All of that you have to take care of AND have money to spare for the expenses. You have to cook every meal, you have to clean 3+ floors weekly, you have to tend to those gardens if you want them to look so neat, get gas and automoto repairs regularly to basically not get stranded. These are not meant for single people to live in unless you got a fortune you can spend on people doing all I just mentioned for you.
Not to mention villages and small towns are a whole diffferent bag of worms, and too many people think they'll be living in a munchkin land. Imagine a place where nobody's your friend, but everybody knows who you are and what you're up to, since they got nothing better to do than talk about it.
So you're saying people should want to settle for less. And what other areas are infinitely better? You get to be surrounded by trees and that's it. How is that better? I'm practically a hermit with how little I leave my home so I'm not out living up the nightlife. But with health problems I need to be near good hospitals I can get to quickly. I want to know if my house catches fire people will see it to call for help. You're giving up a lot of safety and convenience to get to be surrounded by trees.
Its not really remote, theres trains that go everywhere in switzerland. Only problem I could forsee is the tourists and Ive heard Swiss people are super uptight about things which is one the reasons its so clean and manicured.
I think part of my thing is I localized it to some of the little hamlets-in-"paradise" we have in Oregon. Lots of big homes that people plopped down out here that are 20 minutes from effectively convenience stores that themselves are 30+ minutes away from actual towns. Its cool in theory, but I don't think I'd be able to do it.
Maybe I'd fare better in the ones in Switzerland. I'd have more access to infrastructure, at the tradeoff of less connection to and acceptance by local culture.
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u/Hailfire9 May 13 '26
Its a matter of whether you can be self-sufficient enough to appreciate the remoteness, as well as comfortable/willing/able to travel back to a town for your necessities (or what you consider necessities).
If it was a matter of a 20 minute drive back to town for work/groceries/luxuries, I could do it. If it was an hour through remote terrain that may not even be passable depending on weather, I'd honestly be uncomfortable-bordering-terrified.