As far as fictional societies to live in goes it's hard to beat an optimistic sci fi setting lmao.
Although I might choose the Ascian civilization from FF14, as long as it's before the Final Days. Eternal life and post scarcity powered by magic, and the way most people self actualize is by literally creating life like gods. If it's early enough I would travel to other planets myself and possibly avert the apocalypse altogether.
But if you're living on a planet far from the fighting, sure there might be a slight change in your day-to-day, but you wouldn't be consumed by it. Even living in the Alpha Centauri system would be far from the fighting but close enough in to be a core world in the Federation.
well, technically, FC assimilated Earth happened in an alternate timeline, but you make a good point about the Domino War and wanting to avoid that. So, yeah, Iβd want to arrive after that ended.
Bad thing about the shire is, in the books particularly, I get the feeling that the Hobbits are super judgy and talk shit about each other constantly behind their backs.
Which, given that the shire is so small and insular, checks out. What else are they talking about after they finish up about the weather or wondering when Gandalf will show up with fireworks again.
I moved back to the farm and my fucking god, everyone knows what everyone else is doing to the finest detail. It's a little creepy. Oh, and anyone without a Facebook account has to be hiding something.
I don't think it's canon but didn't Tolkien write sequels where the Hobbits are forced out of the shire by the expanding humans, eventually turning back into the nomadic harfoots they once were?
The Culture. Live as long as you want, as whatever gender you feel like at the moment, doing whatever you want, with all the recreational drugs you could ever want on tap in your brain, and no scarcity on a living ship touring the galaxy looking for interesting places.
Probably one of the future utopias, where there is no need for material wealth, where we have reached the point of being able to upload (and download back again) our consciousness, so we can have virtual worlds and real ones. No scarcity. Where we've mastered wormholes for travel.
TBH even during Voldemortβs era I donβt think many normal folks were impacted except if they were in the wrong place at the wrong time or briefly when they took over the Ministry. So itβd of been pretty minor overall for your average wizard I think (correct me if Iβm wrong, been a while since I read the books).
Same but then I remember that Anhk-Morpork is supposed to small awful. I'd visit but I can't say I
I'd want to live there. But if I could bring some luggage that'd be great.
In my opinion there are so many better options for a tabletop fantasy RPG setting that don't involve hereditary magocracies in all but name and other bullshit, or at least make it less glaringly miserable for those living in it.