what are the most remote cities in the world? like, dont really have many neighboring settlements of comparable size for a very far distance, located in somewhere people don't think about much, etc. places like Anchorage or Petropavlovsk?
@jk well, not a city
@amphetamine it looks really cool! but yeah i'm looking for places that are kinda self-contained, look more or less like a modern city, maybe 150k+ population, modern conveniences, e.g. you could forget for a moment that you're in an extremely odd part of the world for a while, and then you're like "ahhh, wait, what the hell"
@jk 
secret expat destinations
@jk longyearbyen? as a bonus for this one, nearby is the northernmost statue of lenin, if that's your thing
@jk also as a bonus, unlike most remote places (for instance greenland), longyearbyen has an undersea cable so it gets fast internet.
@jk Indianapolis in the barren flatwastes of southern Indiana
Winnipeg
@jk im tired and dont know as many cities/towns as i should tbh but Svalbard maybe?
@turbodragon pretty good suggestion!
@turbodragon @jk I like how Svalbard is a visa-free zone... Any human can live and work there provided they can reach the frozen hel-hole.
@jk Albuquerque is pretty isolated. no other cities close to its size in New Mexico.
@jk Juneau AK
@jk and Honolulu for different reasons
@jk I've heard Perth is the most remote city in the world?
@SuzanEraslan @jk In terms of geographical distance, probably yes. I always noticed that my friend from Perth had a feeling of isolation from the rest of the world.
It's possible that other places in Siberia and north of Mongolia are less distant from city centres than Perth is from other major Australian cities, but sometimes isolation is less a function of distance, and more of transport connectivity.
Just as the relative distance of taking three flights to get somewhere around the corner.
@jk there're a handful of towns in iceland > 10k population that aren't reykjavík. i'm not sure if that's really the kind of thing you're looking for, though.
@jk Elko Nevada, most of the towns nearby are dead or dying
@jk kiribati