I am in Europe, and its a wonderful place. Wherever I go there are hundreds of little dots of 100 men which stand as grave markers of the people who quit strat. Most fiefs have about 3000 SD, which means the people are starving, and the 100% crime rate means you'll lose many, many men to cannibals if you meant to briefly enter a village but sorta fell asleep waiting the 15 minutes it took to get in.
But as wonderful as it is, I have been attacked twice by little shit armies that had no chance of winning. All they did was slow me down and weigh me down with shit gear. It could take me months to get back to NA the way its going.