• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    10 hours ago

    Nanning is a city of 9 million, with mountains, countryside, forest, and ocean within 1 hour train ride.

    Kunming is actually in the mountains, but no ocean, and probably my favorite place in the world.

    Da Lat is a smaller city in the mountains proper, and the ocean is ~2 hours away.

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      10 hours ago

      An hour is a pretty long way by train, surely almost everyone has at least most of those things within an hour by train? If you drop mountain to hills then it’s even more accessible.

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        I live in a place that is a 3 hour drive (at 70+ mph) to the gulf, a 6 hour drive to the nearest mountain range (incidentally in another country) and about 4-5 hour drive to the nearest forest.

        Oh, and I’m not in a small town, this is a city of 2.5 million people. With another city of 2.1 million people not too far away with the same issue.