If You Could Live Anywhere in the World - Where and Why?

[rjleaman]

It's got to be within an hour or two drive of the ocean, no further inland. I've tried other places over the years, but just keep coming back... But I wouldn't mind bringing the climate of the golden Costa del Sol over here to Atlantic Canada!

[mpvanwinkle77]

West Coast United States is hard to beat for scenic beauty, but I hear the people are snobbish. I love Chicago, but hate the snow and wind. I think if I could live anywhere right now, California ... land of sunshine ... actually, think that's florida.

PAULR how you can stand the UP I don't know. I've been in Chicago for 9 years now and am ready to head south again.

[CruisingDave]

I'd live somewhere where it's warm all year round, but doesn't get unbearably hot.

[Bloggeries]

Originally Posted by CruisingDave

I'd live somewhere where it's warm all year round, but doesn't get unbearably hot.

With a blog about cruising do you have any particular suggestions in mind?

[CruisingDave]

All the places I've been to have been in the 90s during the summer. Too hot for me. Out of the places I've been, I guess I'd go with Bermuda. I'd have to be rich before I could live there though. I guess that's why I put all my million dollars in the bank over in that thread.

[Bloggeries]

Originally Posted by CruisingDave

All the places I've been to have been in the 90s during the summer. Too hot for me. Out of the places I've been, I guess I'd go with Bermuda. I'd have to be rich before I could live there though. I guess that's why I put all my million dollars in the bank over in that thread.

I can see that being a nice but expensive place. I'm looking for high connectivity relatively stable economy and low cost of living.

[PaulR]

Originally Posted by mpvanwinkle77

PAULR how you can stand the UP I don't know. I've been in Chicago for 9 years now and am ready to head south again.

The UP is fantastic during the spring/summer/fall. The winter is a different story, but I have spent my whole life dealing with Chicago's winters I don't see how winters anywhere else could be worse, unless of course you lived in Canada.

[Katalina]

Originally Posted by mpvanwinkle77

West Coast United States is hard to beat for scenic beauty, but I hear the people are snobbish. I love Chicago, but hate the snow and wind. I think if I could live anywhere right now, California ... land of sunshine ... actually, think that's florida.

I live in the Sierra Nevada Foothills in Northern California. Beautiful place, we get all 4 seasons...light. It might snow once or twice, rarely gets above 90 in the summer, lots of beautiful colors in the fall. I am less than an hour from skiing, 20 minutes from putting my kayak in a lake, and smack dab in the middle of some of the best mountain biking in the world. Takes half a day to get to the ocean, but Northern Cali ocean is too cold for swimming without a wetsuit.

I really like where I live, must be why I am here!

I vacationed in Belize once, that was a great country if you like caving and Maya ruins.

Oh, and I'm not snobbish!

[blogexperiment.org]

It's tempting to want to live in a tropical paradise, but where do you go when you need a vacation from THAT? I've been to Thailand which was awesome, and leaving was always depressing, but if I lived there permanently I think I'd get jaded pretty quick.

I live in Chicago and it's good here. Now if I could change the weather, that would be perfect...

[dannii]

I'd love to live in Dublin I went there in the holiday and I just fell in love, I decided to go study law there at trinity. and after I'm done with my studies I want to live in allot of places for 3 to 4 years: Paris, Australia and Tokyo

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