I don't ask this in a judgemental way: why would you choose to live in rural Brazil over Germany?
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2025
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If you’re not habituated to cold winters, it can be difficult to live in a place that has them. I’m from New England and live in Germany, so I’m always slightly disappointed by the winter (I’m not in Bavaria), but for people who are from warm places, the cold literally hurts. You adjust to a point, but especially if you’re older or skinnier, it might be a struggle every time.
The winter here is no less disappointing 😁
Job opportunities (in the big city 60km away) and my family lives here. I am moving back to Germany next year tho...
Oh that makes sense. Hope it works out for you.
and now I live so far away that I don't even bother locking my front door
Can you explain what you mean by this to someone who's lived in asphalt his entire life? Is your home so far from others that the likelihood of a break-in is negligible, or is there a different meaning I'm missing?
Yeah that's it, I live 8km from the city center and 300m off the asphalt. The chances of a home invasion here is basically 0, and if they came all this way, a lock won't stop them.
I see.
Here, I walk 5 minutes to get the mail, and pass by ~12 houses, half of which have a Ring doorbell that yells, "HI! You are currently being recorded."
I walk 5 minutes to get my mail and still don't pass my nearest neighbor.
Not being close enough for others to see anything that happens, I'd be locking my doors and I'd also have several cameras too.
Have you ever considered how you would survive prior to ~1999?
Probably just lie around in warm mud drinking cool margaritas while playing endless games of high stakes mahjong.
Ah yes, the year cameras were invented. Silly me.
I was more thinking about modern internet solutions that enable things like viewing a camera remotely that produce alerts for things like movement, and can even show a little clip of what was seen.
Having a camera on site in a rural area is only relevant if you're aware of the happenings, no? because if you're away for a long time, say an 8 hour shift at work... absolutely anybody can come in and tear down your cameras, ransack your house, and light the remainder on fire destroying all video evidence.
A friend I know had her rural home robbed of all christmas gifts under a tree in the 90s. She lived in the US in a fairly rural area (pop ~100.) Houses are all set back from the road. They even tried pulling an extremely large TV out through the front door, but it wouldn't fit.
Cameras wouldn't help... because they stole their computers, all the gifts obviously, and even a small gun safe. This was a former veteran and IT worker's family home and they had for the time fairly bleeding edge hardware. Sure, if the family returned home and caught them red handed perhaps it would have went differently, but disabling camera infrastructure back then in a rural residential setting is trivial if no one is home.
Of course the ideal is to find someplace where you need neither house nor car keys.
the cemetery?
Sounds pretty good tbh. Peaceful, secure, quiet, lots of trees, low taxes.
Im lucky enough live in a place like that. But my house is valued at $4M
So that means it can fit a lot of us? Party at AxExRx's house!
Just become homeless and carless. Then you won't have either keys.
Random question, whats your address and work schedule?
Have to go to work once a week (about 80km), the rest of the week work from home.
Same (kinda), Germany vs US