We all have our preferences. Back when I was a kid, I read about the tepuis, I think they're called. Buttes that rise up hundreds of meters out of the jungle with sheer walls that have kept people off them for millenia. At the top there are ecosystems unknown to man, and that is largely true to this day, even though we have helicopters.
One of my dreams was to study the unique ecosystems on these lost worlds. I was always thrilled by jungles, the hot, steamy verdant, bustling masses of creatures, and places like Venezuela, Brazil, Indonesia, New Guinea, Borneo, and basically all of SE Asia, Central Africa, and S. America were on my dream list of places to explore and study life. I was raised in Alaska, on islands freshly exposed from the retreat of the glaciers, and while verdant and temperate, a wide variety of species just hadn't had time to find their way there.
Then I grew up and went to Texas. I discovered Palmetto Bugs, and Red Ants. I went to Houston, a massive city built on a swamp. At night it was ~45 degrees and 130% humidity. The air was overstuffed with water vapor, and I was the coolest thing in the environment at 37 degrees. Instead of being cooled by my sweat, water actually condensed out of the air onto my overheated body. It was life threatening, and I was from Alaska. Then I didn't ever want to go to a jungle for any reason.
I still look and remember my childhood dream.
that probably also plays into why I'd prefer Georgia/ maybe Armenia/ Albania over South-America/ Venezuela
also besides South America's climate, economics (georgia, armenia are no socialistic shitholes like south america), just the long way..
it is the "other side of the earth" to me - to georgia or albania I could theoretically ride with my oldtimer motorbike (If I ever get it back, same with my driving license - and my pain allows me to)
you could still study these ecosystems ! wouldnt be the best idea to live in them (untouched ecosystems) anyways :P
but yeah I see you - I'm also more of a cold boy, a viking..
would also tend north normally - but one of my companions wont allow that (he can't manage the cold anymore - even though cold is healing)
have you heard of the big caves in china with giant mammoth trees underground?
I read as a child the lurid pulp fantasies of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and similar authors that conjured vivid hallucinations of cavernous worlds subterranean. Mere reality cannot compete LOL.
The ability of living things to habituate to environments on Earth is astounding. Microbial species live kilometers deep in suboceanic rock, feeding on the sparse resources that percolate therein. While microbes in active ecosystems can reproduce every ~20 minutes, deep in the lithosphere they can only reproduce once in a century.
Archaia is yet remnant in such places.