With the understanding that it would still be dead and burned out (even though there's no logical reason for most of it to be that way), I wish this game had more wilderness. And a crossbow. My first character is about as outdoorsman as it gets, but it's because it suits me, not because it suits the game. I'm living in the boathouse beneath the lighthouse settlement, simply because it vaguely resembles a cabin. I thought I had found a home in the south westernmost settlement, but it was filled with children, whom I obviously could not dispose of. I understand and appreciate that Fallout is about destroyed civilization, but I want to roam the wilds, sometimes.
Also, I'm pretty sure I've seen every part of the map, now. Far Harbor can't come soon enough.