quoting nevent1q…dwcuon today's show at space weather news, this nice little table to explain the aspects of the disaster cycle, magnetic excursion and pole shift was shown:
https://youtu.be/w83iwM9SdmA
i had been pondering which regions were good candidates and i knew about the rockies and mongolia but i never heard Ben talk about how the Balkans was also part of the good candidate areas (probably extending up to the Tatras in czech/slovakia and the carpathians in the north east and south-eastern parts of russia
maybe eastern bosnian mountains like the area i was looking at - near Kalinovik (a ski town in south east bosnia) and looking at the mountains in the region, eastern serbia and western romania also look good
i really liked the eastern mountains of serbia. had a really pleasant encounter with an old lady driving an ancient old commie tank of a car and an auto electrician in the town Despotovac after i rode on the back of a train from the plains of central serbia south of belgrade.
as for current circumstances to live there, i already know the place and have a fairly good grasp of the language already, it has fairly easily survivable conditions now and would only really change to become southern hemisphere after the change, so, about the same conditions, stable. and not EU, but close to bulgaria which is handy for certain things
next puzzle is then to figure out how i get me and my cat there :) perhaps i should skip the boat plan and just charter a boat, for probably less than the cost of buying it, maybe $5000 or so, and just ride straight to Split or something and then organise transport up and across into Serbia via Bosnia
i'm kinda releived about this new information because my absolute favourite part of the world, and a place where i had a quite magical experience, was the eastern mountains of Serbia. in fact i can say the places i liked the best in the world that i have seen so far, were all around there, on the west of bulgaria near Mount Rila, there is a very interesting pyramid mountain (which was probably a pyramid once) called Rtanj, and nearby, i passed through a town called Despotovac, which is at the foot of a high altitude area more or less directly east of Belgrade.
i really liked serbia a lot though, more than bulgaria, the culture and my experience with living there as a foreigner, and the fact that i have learned enough of the language already that within a couple of years i would be fluent. i can't say this about here in madeira at all, portuguese is a very strange language, similar sound to serbian but a whole mangled different version of syntax, and a really illogical phonetics rules.
i'm going to stay here for the next year, as i have secured this rental for that time, and stack my guts out, hopefully by the end of the lease i will have around 20-40k euros of sats to hand, and then i'll organise my transport for me and my little fluffball, stay in a cheap mountain country hotel, and try and line up myself a little plot way up in the hills close to the border with bulgaria