A few years ago I moved back to my hometown to reconnect with family and old friends during a lull in my career. I believe that was a mistake. I get along reasonably well with my parents, but my extended family is selfish and insane - the type who turn on you as soon as you can't do a favor for them on the spot. My friends have also been completely out of the picture since covid; there's only two I care about at all at this point. I think I've exhausted the potential opportunities here, and I'm ready to move on.

I went through financial hardship and lost almost everything. The good news is that when I make money, I make a lot of it so I'm sure I will bounce back. But if I'm destined for the bad ending and have to work retail until I die, then at the very least I don't want to do it here. I have enough stuff to sell that I could raise decent funds for relocation, and I have a paid off vehicle. I would like to have a family of my own one day, but I'm already middle aged and realize that the odds of finding a suitable partner are close to zero. It would be nice and I'm open to it, but I have to be realistic.

I haven't traveled much; I've always been a bit of a workaholic. I don't even have a dream place I want to move to, so I figured other peoples' dream locations would be a good way to start a list. If you had to start over - little to no money and no relationships - where would you go? What kind of peace in life would you hope to find there?

>>33389017 (OP)
I would've dropped out, gotten my GED, gotten started in the trades, made early investments in crypto, cashed out when the getting was good. Then I'd do whatever the fuck I felt like.

>>33389017 (OP)
I'm 35 and live at home with basically no money and no friends. I work a bullshit job, but that's about it. So in a sense, I'm in situation you've described. No money, no attachments. Except it doesn't feel like freedom. I can't just put my finger on a map and go on an adventure. I don't have the money. Even if I did - to what end? I could escape my current trappings, but I can't escape myself.

Sometimes it feels like I'm not from here, which I know is just a coping mechanism. Even so, I fantasize about leaving this world and returning to wherever it is I'm from.

>>33389017 (OP)
I'm 35 and live at home with basically no money and no friends. I work a bullshit job, but that's about it. So in a sense, I'm in the situation you've described. No money, no attachments. Except it doesn't feel like freedom. I can't just put my finger on a map and go on an adventure. I don't have the money. Even if I did - to what end? I could escape my current trappings, but I can't escape myself.

Sometimes it feels like I'm not from here, which I know is just a coping mechanism. Even so, I fantasize about leaving this world and returning to wherever it is I'm from.

>>33389088
>Sometimes it feels like I'm not from here, which I know is just a coping mechanism. Even so, I fantasize about leaving this world and returning to wherever it is I'm from.
So real. I spent the whole day today driving back from one of those adventures, thinking exactly that.
I want to see my home when I die.

>>33389017 (OP)
OP, I'm one of those freaks that isn't human and doesn't belong here.
But I'd suggest the mountain west. You'll feel better and the people aren't so bad, and the air and water are clean and will do you good for a little while. Colorado, Idaho, or Wyoming/Montana if you have more money.
Also try a foreign country where the social life is better, because that makes it easier to find friends and a wife. My family's home country, for me, would be on that list. Try southern or eastern europe, or latin america.

>>33389088
I don't think freedom is about being able to do. I think it's about the ability to be. What good is adventure if there's nowhere you wish to return to? The only reason to go somewhere new and explore, is the hope of finding a place with people who you feel some attachment to. People you care about, and who care about you in turn. People you are comfortable around and look forward to being with, or if you are a loner, a place where you feel at peace.

The hardest thing is of course figuring out money but you don't need that much if you're just one guy. You just need a small edge through talent, personality, or grit.

First and foremost you have to figure out what the place you want to belong to looks like. That's what I'm working on.

hometown is important there the house i broke into, there the house were we partied, there the bush were that one thing happened with lacey, hometown is special but leaving is painfully even if they hate you it still feels like a type of love like a watchful celebrity love to hate thing

>>33389017 (OP)
>thought it was a picture of Dio
>just some bitch

I would go to either stopping the human race starting or stopping me from being born

>>33389017 (OP)
Your thinking is ass-backward.

Get a job first. Then move to where the job is.