Where would you live if pricing and jobs weren't a factor?

[sunspotsAZ]

Wow...what a great thought.

I'd have to say
Boulder Colorado
Ashland Oregon
Santa Fe New Mexico (a getaway house)
San Francisco
This is tough!
sunspotsAZ

[mjewell]

Santa Fe, NM
Aspen, CO
or any other gorgeous, artsy, very small city with beautiful summers

[Dancingearth]

I wouldn't pick just one and would have to travel more to decide the two and while I'm dreaming, I'd have a job that I could do from either or no job at all and then I'd make pottery and take more art classes.

One place would have a cabin on a lake where it gets cold enough in winter to cross country ski from the door then come back to a hot tub and fireplace to warm up. And warm enough in the summer to swim in the lake and have a canoe. Probably in Oregon, New York, or Washington.

The other would be somewhere warm in winter. I'd check out New Mexico or Mexico. I lived in Santa Fe for eight years and don't want to move back -- too cold to qualify. Would check out the southern part.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by Dancingearth

One place would have a cabin on a lake where it gets cold enough in winter to cross country ski from the door then come back to a hot tub and fireplace to warm up. And warm enough in the summer to swim in the lake and have a canoe. Probably in Oregon, New York, or Washington.

Minnesota, Wisconsin, upper Michigan... the lakes freeze so you can XC ski in huge wide-open spaces.

[Scribbler]

Not in a city, most likely...in the rural peacefulness, since we're taking the whole "there aren't any liveable wage jobs there" reality out of the equation. Yup, barring job availability, somwhere remote and rural and lovely and quiet.

[landrover06]

1) San Francisco
2) New York

[rtangs]

Laconia, New Hampshire.

I like my big cities at a comfortable distance.

[mslr]

have to add Austin to that list...