What are the best places in the US to travel to in order to go hermit mode in a short-term rental and focus on creative/productive endeavors? I've found that many small towns, while affordable, are full of people who make it their business to know your business, which can become a problem if you're reclusive. Bonus points if there's a beach nearby, although frozen cabins are fine, too.
Columbus, Ohio
>>2844942The desert
>>2844960Which part?
>>2844942>short-term rental Define short-term>and focus on creative/productive endeavors?Define creative/productive endeavors.Anyways there's this youtuber CGPGrey who needed to focus on production, research, project, etc. and what he ended up doing is literally locking himself in a hotel room for a week. He also said there was this one time people started asking him what he did or why he was there and his response was "spreadsheets". Essentially just tell people you do spreadsheet work which required a lot of excel equations from one column that references another column, etc. and they will just leave you alone
>>2844965>He also said there was this one time people started asking him what he did or why he was there and his response was "spreadsheets". Essentially just tell people you do spreadsheet work which required a lot of excel equations from one column that references another column, etc. and they will just leave you aloneGood idea>Define short-term1 month minimum, flexible after that>Define creative/productive endeavors.spreadsheets
Any American suburb basically, hear me out.1. Decent enough quality of life with first world amenities.2. Dreary and pedestrian hostile enough to make leaving your apartment/rental for anything other than a short walk in your isolated neighborhood undesirable.3. While not necessarily cheap, much more affordable than cities/rural rentals with immense variety to find something that suits you.Suburban Americans live like this against their will whether they recognize it or not. It's the perfect place to drop out of society for a few months. It's completely normal to not even know your neighbor or never say a word to the guy who walks his dog past your house at exactly 8:15 am every morning.
>>2845236I NEETed for 8 years at my parents place and nobody batted an eye. You can drop out of society in suburbia easily. I don't recommend it though. It's hard to dig yourself out of that pit.
>>2845236Or else in the downtown of most medium/ small midwestern and Southern cities.Downtown, say, Wichita is probably an awfully lonely place to live.>>2845287>It's hard to dig yourself out of that pit.did you?
>>2845236kek, this soiboi really loves that hustle and bustle
>suburbs are isolated and antisocial>small, medium downtowns are isolated and empty>why is everyone fleeing America, guys?
>>2845302>>2845287America does large cities and rural well. It's the in between spaces that really are insufferable. There is something truly sinister about American suburbia.
>>2844962The American West in general has little curiosity about drifters, because there are so damn many of them passing through and hanging around for a few days, or a few weeks, or a few months. It's very unlikely anyone will attempt to pry into your life, apart from the occasional christkek do-gooder who wants to "reach out". >>2845302I just spent two weeks in North Carolina. Lots of people talk on the bus. Old friends, new friends, complete strangers. They all chit-chat. If anything, the social barriers are much higher in Asia than they are in the USA.
