So you want to leave the United States... Why and where would you most like to live? (real estate, living in)

[International Playgirl]

I have moved out of the country and found that there is a pretty fair amount of us who do this kind of thing. I was curious what other people are motivated by and where Ex-Pat's are headed for their "greener grasses".
My Utopian Quest landed me in Mexico, and we love it!

[Steve-o]

Norway. Beautiful cities, peace and quiet, gorgeous green scenery, wonderful people, etc. Norway has also been ranked as the "most liveable country" in the world before (last year I believe).

My dream city would be Alesund (pronounced ole-uh-soon). Gorgeous beyond comprehension...

[tahiti]

Originally Posted by Steve-o

Norway. Beautiful cities, peace and quiet, gorgeous green scenery, wonderful people, etc. Norway has also been ranked as the "most liveable country" in the world before (last year I believe).

My dream city would be Alesund (pronounced ole-uh-soon). Gorgeous beyond comprehension...

Oh please! Alesund is a tourist trap - head over to Denmark, far better scenery without all the hokey tourist stuff.

How bad does it sound for me to say that last picture reminds me of the Norway Pavillion in Disney?

[Steve-o]

Originally Posted by tahiti

Oh please! Alesund is a tourist trap - head over to Denmark, far better scenery without all the hokey tourist stuff.

How bad does it sound for me to say that last picture reminds me of the Norway Pavillion in Disney?

Riiiiight, the planners of Alesund intended the city to be a tourist destination, way back in the days before airplanes and cruise ships. It cant help the fact that its a destination now largely in part to its magnificent beauty.

And the Mayan temple in the Mexico Pavilion at Disney isnt going to make me not want to visit the real deal sometime now, is it? Disney saw beauty and replicated it, same thing Vegas has done over and over and over again. But theres NOTHING BETTER THAN THE REAL THING.

[desertsun41]

I suspect once this thread gets going you will see lots and lots of choices going to Canada. You could count me in. I did and found it hard to get going due to so much red tape so I gave up. I would live up in the Okanogan Desert on Lake Kelowna in BC.

Mexico? Not unless you were Mexican. But even Mexicans running away from their own place of birth. From what I read and what people who lived there tell me. I would rather live in the Vietnam jungle.

Besides, Americans are forbidden to own real estate in Mexico by law.

[Lillietta]

Canada for sure - British Columbia

[dfrench8456]

i wouldent want to leave this country but if i did i would want to go to Canada Toronta to be more exzact

[Beliy Plashik]

I would live in Moscow, Russia or Kiev, Ukraine. Moscow is more of a world city, but I think Kiev is much more gorgeous when it comes to scenery.

Kiev Population: 2.7 million inhabitants by official estimates while some much higher.

Here are some pictures of Kiev. (Sorry I do not know how to post pictures unto threads)

http://www.andrewlmoore.com/images/photography/Motherland-Kiev.jpg (broken link)
http://pages.prodigy.net/l.hodges/kyiv_lavra.jpg (broken link)
http://www.besig.org/events/conf2004/images/dp/medsized/kiev%20from%20the%20lavramed.jpg (broken link)

http://www.abride4you.com/members/15...ded/kiev-4.jpg

[jonjj]

I lived outside of Mazatlan, Mexico for three years and would do it again in a heartbeat if I didn't have so many responsibilities. I also thought about living in Canada. It is so much cleaner and the cities are much nicer.

[TerrySRA]

Either in Canada or Australlia