Korea outside Seoul
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The food is so damn good. Loads of veggies (plus kimchi) even I just ordered gukbap.
I asked this question a bit ago and the best answer I got was Japan. I wasn’t worried about clean air but if you’re away from the cities or even on an island like Okinawa that should do it. Food is healthy and affordable and it’s not in the tropics so none of those illnesses.
Japan! That would be an awesome way to go about it. The two questions I’d have is, how affordable it would be and whether or not there’s radiation in the air (although I don’t know much about this, and maybe thinking that way makes me a bit over cautious)
I am not sure about the waste water thing, I’ve never looked into that, but from my research on Japan so far, apartments seem less expensive than or maybe just around the prices I’ve seen in Spain & Portugal. So lower end of EU prices. I’ve heard that groceries are cheap in Japan but eating out can be around Western Europe prices. But I have not been yet, I’ve just been researching.
There's no radiation issues, its not even a concern. It's rather affordable at the moment with how low the yen is (151 to 1USD). That said, accommodation can add up as it's hard to rent a place with a tourist visa but food is phenomenally delicious and shockingly cheap for the quality.
You do have mosquito borne illnesses there (just different ones). No escaping from them, sorry.
Andorra
This might be the answer
Eastern Europe usually has lower prices and you can find some hidden gems
Maybe have a look into the blue zones? People there often live to 100. The blue zones are Okinawa (Japan), Sardinia (Italy), Ikaria (Greece), Loma Linda (USA), Nicoya Peninsula (Costa Rica).
Loma Linda? I used to live one town over in San Bernardino. Can't say I remember people living to 100. Surely someone might have noticed!
Watch the new docuseries on Netflix. I think it’s called Live to 100: Blue Zone or vice versa.
Perhaps it's true but I suspect that if there was one town in S. Calif. that people lived to 100 in every news media, and there are plenty there, wold be all over such a story. I only lived three miles away myself, I may be immortal! Actually both towns are at the end of the LA basin and have always suffered from extreme afternoon air pollution. Maybe pollution is good for you.
FYI I did a bunch of research on the Blue Zones (I got sucked into a rabbit hole) and the community-oriented nature of these communities contributes just as much to if not more than the food. So the diets here aren’t necessarily better than reasonable diets anywhere else.
I also remember reading about a tight knit Italian community in Pennsylvania that ate a standard (read: horrible) American diet but were significantly healthier, and once they weren’t as isolated anymore, their health metrics became the same as everyone else.
Parts of Phuket are great. I can share a good wellness resort name of you wanna dm me
The most important thing is the food.
So any place where the food is halfway real is good.
If you come from the United States, the advantageous parts are not aware of how horrendous their lifestyle is in terms of health, I was there and I had to make a ridiculous effort of time and money to eat out without ending up obese.
Lake Tahoe, California. Lake Taupo, New Zealand. Byron Bay. Costa Rica.
Mauritius!