[jurjenh]

Except for things like volcanoes and earthquakes... Though grantedly that is a different kind of excitement.

You're still subject to much the same kind of media merry-go-round, and subjectively is probably not even that far away.

[eli_gottlieb]

> Except for things like volcanoes and earthquakes... Though grantedly that is a different kind of excitement.

Call me silly, but that really is different to me. There's always some chance a natural disaster will wreck things up for you, but as long as society works together to respond to natural disasters, I feel fairly comfortable coping with that. Likewise, actually, to the terrorism problem in Israel.

The kind of "excitement" I really don't want to live with is the breakdown of social trust: having to worry that my own neighbors or local institutions will turn on me.

[scarygliders]

> Except for things like volcanoes and earthquakes

As someone who lived and worked in Japan for 6 years, lived not too far away from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant (Koriyama city), and went through the M9 quake in 2011 I can confirm this 100%. Life got rather wobbly.

If you live in some location prone to natural disasters, inevitably you will become the news, or at least live in the news.