Leave Delft?

Question

Should we leave Delft? If yes — when, where to, and how.

Dimensions

• Location / lifestyle — what’s wrong with Delft, what’s wanted instead. Climate, density, pace, nature access, social fabric.
• Wife — joint decision. Not Denys’s call alone. Her stance is the dominant constraint until known.
• Son Alan — schooling continuity, friends, language, stability during formative years.
• Work / income — current income source’s geographic constraints. Remote-friendly? Tax implications of moving?
• Nature-business viability — nature-business is values-aligned around nature / body / grounding. Different locations enable or block this very differently.
• Financial runway — what’s the cushion for a move, and what does the making-money $350K-by-2031 target imply about timing?

Constraints

• ? Wife’s current stance on leaving / on candidate destinations.
• ? Alan’s school year and any school-change windows.
• ? Income geographic dependencies (employer, contracts, tax residency).
• ? Financial runway / move cost.

Options

(Empty. To be populated as candidate destinations emerge. Not Claude’s to invent.)

Current lean

Denys wants out. No specifics on where, when, or how. Not yet aligned with wife. As of 2026-06-29.

Open sub-questions

• What is actually wrong with Delft? Name the specific dissatisfactions — without these, no destination can be evaluated.
• What would a good answer to “where instead” look like? What are the must-haves vs. nice-to-haves?
• What is wife’s stance, and what does she need to even open the conversation?
• What’s Alan’s situation that constrains timing (school year, language, peer group)?
• Is the desire to leave actually about place, or is it about something Delft happens to symbolize? (Cross-link to psyche-observation — geographic restlessness as a pattern worth watching.)

Linked hubs

big-questions · making-money · nature-business · psyche-observation

Decision log

• 2026-06-29 — Question raised. No options, no alignment with wife, no specifics yet. Filed as a big question rather than an inbox item because of multi-dimensional and multi-person nature.