If you couldn't live in America... (apartment, buying a home, buying)

[chaz longue]

...where would you live?

[dullnboring]

1. New Zealand
2. Spain
3. Portugal
4. Canada
5. Italy
6. Australia
7. Norway
8. United Kingdom
9. Singapore
10. Switzerland
11. Argentina
12. Netherlands
13. Costa Rica
14. Malta
15. Mauritius
16. Belgium
17. Germany
18. Japan
19. Hong Kong (yes, I know it's not technically a country)
20. Chile
21. Cape Verde
22. Sweden
23. Denmark
24. France
25. Brazil
26. Uruguay
27. Greece
28. South Africa
29. Cyprus
30. Turkey

Anyways, as someone who loves to travel and just really wants to see the world, I could keep going with this up til 100 probably .

[carolinajack]

denmark
bermuda
barbados
Honduras
Costa Rica
Argentina
Chile
Spain
Italy
Iceland
HK
NZ

[MoMark]

If I couldn't live in America, there's nowhere else in North America I want to live, Canada, Mexico and South America don't appeal to me, so I'd choose my favorite foreign country...Germany.
I have lived in Germany for extensive periods and I love it. My favorite area is in NordrheinWestfallen north of Essen and I could happily live in a country house just outside of Muenster. I've even thought about buying a home there before! Dreams, dreams, dreams!
I still love life in America best, but Germany is my second choice

[escapetacoma]

Originally Posted by chaz longue

...where would you live?

If it weren't for the weather Victoria, British Columbia would be high on my list. Overall - pick a smallish town in western France that's still far enough inland to avoid most of the coastal clouds. Maybe somewhere around Chinon or Loches.

[Crew Chief]

Originally Posted by MoMark

If I couldn't live in America, there's nowhere else in North America I want to live, Canada, Mexico and South America don't appeal to me, so I'd choose my favorite foreign country...Germany.
I have lived in Germany for extensive periods and I love it. My favorite area is in NordrheinWestfallen north of Essen and I could happily live in a country house just outside of Muenster. I've even thought about buying a home there before! Dreams, dreams, dreams!
I still love life in America best, but Germany is my second choice

MoMark, I spent 10 years in Germany courtesy of the USAF; Kaiserslautern and Bitburg/Eifel. I love it there. Even after I retired, my wife got a teaching job in Chemnitz and we seriously considered buying an apartment there. Not sure where in Germany I'd settle because there is somthing nice about every part of Deutschland! My wife went to Cologne University and we really like the city, so that could be a possibility. No, I'd never give up my blue passport either. But I sure loved Germany (maybe if we were rich we would be better off in Luxembourg... )

[Blue Grass Fever]

New Zeeland

Brazil ( or is it Brasil?..)

Italy

Spain

Japan

Well, those are my choices if i couldn't live in the U.S. but had to live elsewhere.

[Winston Smith]

Anywhere in Scandinavia, the Be-Ne-Lux, Canada, Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile.

[recycled]

Originally Posted by Crew Chief

MoMark, I spent 10 years in Germany courtesy of the USAF; Kaiserslautern and Bitburg/Eifel. I love it there. Even after I retired, my wife got a teaching job in Chemnitz and we seriously considered buying an apartment there. Not sure where in Germany I'd settle because there is somthing nice about every part of Deutschland! My wife went to Cologne University and we really like the city, so that could be a possibility. No, I'd never give up my blue passport either. But I sure loved Germany (maybe if we were rich we would be better off in Luxembourg... )

Hey Crew Chief I used to drive with a little convoy a few times a year from my Army outpost up in the Rhoen Mtns of northeast Bavaria down to K-town. We used to go there to steal, err, I mean requisition, parts from an Army can yard near there. That was a pretty good duty station.
Tell me if I'm off on this observation here, cause I've never run across another American that's been to downtown Chemnitz (formerly called "Karl Marx Stadt" when it was still a part of the old East Germany). Doesn't that place make a poster child for the "old East Germany", with respect to the bland concrete urban architecture? It looks a bit like photos we see of Pyongyang North Korea on TV. I drove through there in 2003 on my way to Liepzig, and I see they even left the giant bust of Marx sitting in the main town center as a faded memory. Don't mean to bash the place, but it really stood out (not in a good way) compared to other places in the former East Germany. Maybe they have left downtown Chemnitz relatively unaltered intentionally to remind people that the old East Germany wasn't a socialist worker's paradise?

[lilypad]

At the border of Canada, so I could at least visit.