If you could live anywhere, where would you live? (places, Canada, people)

[Bydand]

Originally Posted by jkmewright

You know, I think about this alot. You see these posts in other areas and I often wonder "What if we just up and moved there?..." The Maine forum is particularly interesting to me as are some other New England states. But I just think about what I would miss if I moved...

Humid summers - preferable to $500-600 a month fuel bills and snow shoveling- thus HOT and HUMID is a good thing to me

Mountains and lakes - where would we run the ridges and play in the water on the same day? What about that farmer's stand on Flat Top Mtn where we get our pumpkins every year?

Traffic is GOOD here, silly goofy drivers but still good.

I can afford my house!

The ocean is 6 hours away BUT you can swim in it since it's warm enough most of the year.

Where else can you find monster trucks, rock crawlers AND mud bogs? It's a redneck heaven!

There are so many things I love about this area that the farthest I can EVEN imagine moving is only 25 minutes away lol

Wow, you NAILED my area except a few minor details.

Winter heating is about $250 for 2 months and $125 for about 4 months, then no heating OR cooling costs.

No Ocean, but a crystal clear 22,000 square MILE lake with hundreds of miles of sugar sand beaches is 6 miles away. To put that into perspective; Lake Michigan is about the same size of Mass, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware combined. And it is #3 in surface size of the lakes on our borders.

Change the location of the farmers market from Flat top mountain to Freesoil.

Other than that, yep - right on the money for my area as well. From mud bogs to the monster trucks (plus toss in motorcross racers). Rednecks to yuppies. I also wouldn't move anywhere else in this Country.

[I LOVE NORTH CAROLINA]

Originally Posted by nomoresnow

I'm exactly where I want to be - SW Florida with my favorite fella.

We moved from Northern NY about a year and a half ago and haven't looked back. Life is very good.

I hope I can say this someday!! I would be just as happy to be in Eastern Tenn as I would North Carolina.

[Miss Blue]

I am satisfied with where I live, our house is paid for, 3 of my four children are very near , 7 of my nine grandkids are nearby and my home has always been theirs too. My first great grandbaby is also nearby..
"Home is where the Heart is" and my heart is wherever my family is I love the beauty, the solitude and the friendliness of the mountains

[MidwesternBookWorm]

If I could live anywhere in the world, it would be right where I'm living now, which is Madison, Wisconsin.

My spouse and I grew up in a seriously economically depressed Midwestern state. We loved our home state, but we hadn't a snowball's chance in a hot place of ever being able to make a decent living there. As young marrieds in our mid twenties, we moved to another state for the sake of jobs and taking care of family (his folks had retired there and needed care). We hated it there. Stayed for 18 years anyway, because family is family, but when we lost the last of the family members living there, we started looking for the place we could move to please ourselves. It took us over a year of research, visits, planning, job-hunting and preparation, but we managed it at last just about a decade ago.

When you find the spot that feels "right" to you, it's worthwhile to do everything within your power to transplant yourself there. I can attest that living where you feel as though you fit makes a world of difference to your quality of life. Our perfect spot wouldn't be for everyone, and I'd never ever suggest that it would be, but living here sure makes us happy. And I don't ever plan to leave.

[ptsum]

This is my house in the wintertime, this is in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountain, moved up here about 3 1/2 years ago from the Metropolitan Washington, DC area, I have no traffic, I have no close neighbors and I enjoy the peace and solitude and I'm only 4 1/2 miles outside of town and my wife and I enjoy it immensely.

[115db]

Thats a tough one because there are so many places Id like to be....just within the US, not including Canada. But probably would narrow it down to either northern Alabama or southern Wisconsin.

[Rapture]

I would like to have a place in NYC and maybe one somewhere in CA on the beach so I can go back & forth.

[thefer]

I'm fairly satisfied where I am.
I always though I'd like to move back to SC where I was born and raised
but since my Grandparents have passed away it just isn't the same.

[whatnow]

Originally Posted by Travel'r

Chicago. I have always loved this city -- cried when I moved back home (family's not there.) When I took the plunge and moved there, I loved it even more than the Florida beach towns I lived in, which I appreciated a whole lot. (I like the heat.)

Don't know why, Chicago's just special. Love the people, the town, and walking along Wacker It was the first place I ever got on an airplane to spontaneously visit when I was young. I just love that town.

Family wants to plan cruises, vacations... , I just want to go back to Chicago.

I was raised just outside of Chicago and go back once a year to visit family and relatives. I loved your post. I love, love Chicago! I run into too many people up here (Minnesota) who think Chicago is awful. Well, not so! They just need a tour guide I guess! Anyway, before I read your post I was thinking - this may sound silly but, Chicago. But then I remembered how much I love Newport RI so Chicago got bumped to second place. Hey, second city. ha! ha! Later....

[Whyte Byrd]

I don't know about the US but I'm looking for a new place to move to. If you hadn't said the US I'd say Ireland.