PinkInTheBlue Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I didn't see where anyone had done this so if it was, forgive me. :) I have a list of places I would really like to try living. The biggest absolute on what I would NOT want to live in would be very cold and lots of snow. However, just for fun I would like to try living in the snow for one winter. Just to do it. Also I want to live in Arizona. We have lots of friends there and visit often. We love it. I ADORE Italy and was so brokenhearted about leaving when we visited that I would really like to live there for a couple of months or even a bit more. Biggest draw though: I think I might be a Texan at heart. I don't know for certain where but the political and independent mindset and passion so many Texans have for their state really appeal to me. I love the joke/idea that if the US government *messes* up enough Texas will probably be the state to say "We're out of here!". :) So, where would you like to live? Maybe you lived there before and want to go back or maybe you've never even been there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truscifi Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 A tropical island. Actually, I'd love to live next door to Heather in Malaysia. I want to live in the land of perpetual summer too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simka2 Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 A log cabin in either Kenai or Sitka. 2nd would be a log cabin in Idaho or Montana. 3rd would be in a foreign country :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer in MI Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 We were heartbroken when we had to leave Italy too!!! We LOVED it there. So, Italy is on my list. I can't stand the extremes in weather. So, summers in the south and winters in the north are out. I'm SOOOOO tired to MI right now, I could scream!!!! But, then I think that maybe the reason I love the south so much in the winter is because I live in the north. And, the reason I love a MI summer is because it's SO **** cold/snowy here in the winter.? I don't know, SC? Maybe? But, would I truly appreciate the summer? I don't know!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommymilkies Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Maine, Scotland, England, France, Cincinnati (home sweet home), Madison WI, Boston, Portland OR. All if I had the money. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkInTheBlue Posted February 19, 2011 Author Share Posted February 19, 2011 We were heartbroken when we had to leave Italy too!!! We LOVED it there. So, Italy is on my list. Hopefully both of us can have our wishes come true. :) Even if it's just for a few months. I'd love it! I don't know, SC? Maybe? But, would I truly appreciate the summer? I don't know!!!! I lived in NC for several years and really felt like it was pretty middle of the road. The summers were definitely hot but not quite like here and there were winters but not blizzards. There was ice too many times to suit me though. I loved that there was so much to do within 2 hours of every direction. I just didn't enjoy my personal experiences of living there. Not things that were NC's fault. Unfortunately I still hold it against "him" though. :) Pretty good temperatures though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tammyw Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I wish I knew. I grew up in western Canada, so I lived many years in VERY cold winters. Then I married my military husband and we've lived in San Diego, NC, Hawaii (Oahu), and now back in San Diego. I keep thinking we will end up settling down in either Denver, Seattle, or here. He has three years left. But of course that is just me being totally practical. I'm not sure where I'd choose to live if I weren't being practical - that's a tough one! I liked Hawaii for the three years we were there, but I wouldn't really want to live there permanently - way too hot and humid for me, and too many big and crazy bugs! And it's remote. But it's beautiful. I wouldn't mind spending month there every year, hehe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyCamper Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Seattle, Portland, Bozeman! Scotland, France, Germany and New Zealand sound fun for a bit too! I live in Southern California and long for winter weather. . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keptwoman Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 New York! The galleries, restaurants, parks, pace, Love it! Somewhere in France or Italy, a village with fresh local food and a simple life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Costa Rica would be nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 San Diego Los Angeles area San Francisco Seattle Portland Singapore Lausanne Mombasa Jo'berg maybe Nairobi other than crime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cin Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Maine, Scotland, England, France, Cincinnati (home sweet home), Madison WI, Boston, Portland OR. All if I had the money. :tongue_smilie: Cincy is pretty nice! I'd like to live in Missoula Mt. A nice sized town, and a short drive to Yellowstone, which is my Happy Spot :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funschooler5 Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 New Zealand! We are currently trying to make this a reality. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keptwoman Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 New Zealand! We are currently trying to make this a reality. :001_smile::thumbup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 A small town about two hours north of here. Sounds achievable doesn't it? Unfortunately family politics prevent it. :crying: Now I could think of a few places I'd have holiday homes if I were on a jetsetting income :) Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibbygirl Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Well, as long as we're dreaming.... :D One dream I've always had since I was a kid was to get a sail boat and sail around the world, stopping in each port of call for as long as I wanted. There are so many places I'd love to see, but don't know if I'd want to live there since I've never been. I have a fascination with the Azores islands, Belize, Costa Rica and tons of those southern pacific islands that all look like post card pictures. I'd like to see a few in the Lesser Antilles as well like St. Lucia and maybe Dominica or Guadeloupe. I'd also have to be sure to go to the Bahamas because I have a dear old friend that lives there and has been inviting me to come visit her for years! If Cuba were free, and not all screwed up I'd go there too to see my family and all the places that my grandfather and great grandfather used to tell me about. I'd like to go see Asturias, Spain too where my family came from before going to Cuba. I think I need a bigger boat. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamee Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Our goal is to get back to Italy in a few years. We'd LOVE to live in the north this time though, up in the mountains, not too far from Venice. (I'd LOVE to live in Venice, but that's just not practicle and I'm not sure I'd like it come tourist time.) Right now, we're thinking we may not go back to the US to live. We can't decide on just the right place, but if money were no object, I'd like a large plot of land in Sonoma County.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingersmom Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Chiang Mai, Thailand Hong Kong Paris Venice or Rome England Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Hawaii in the winter. PA is great for spring/fall. Nova Scotia for the summer. That would be my dream world I think... Or maybe New Zealand. Hubby wants to live on a sailboat sailing in the south pacific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I lived in Monterey, CA for a couple of years. That's where I would like to move to - maybe for retirement? Definitely not in our near future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astrid Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Scotland Sweden Iceland Finland Norway England Ireland Coastal Maine and believe it or not.... Frankenmuth, Michigan. We went to a big dog show there and just fell in love with that little town! astrid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Portland. Even dh is open to moving there, should a job opportunity come up. Reasonable access to a great hs organization, a cloth diaper store, a secular "Sunday school", and Voodoo Donuts. What more could a liberal hs mom want?!?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Big Sur. Or Carmel. If most of the other folks would leave and go somewhere else. I would also want another home on the beach in Santa Monica. But make most of the other folks either leave town or get off my beach and freeways. :-) San Francisco would be cool, too - hey, I DID live there for one semester in college. Yosemite - ahhh! JFS in Il the native Californian longing for HOME!! ( and if not Ca., then outside Cody, WY on a ranch with horses!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Why Chiang Mai? I have friends there. I think I could live there too. Dawn Chiang Mai, ThailandHong Kong Paris Venice or Rome England Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I think I would prefer Malibu, or maybe even up further to Pismo for my get away home. Dawn Big Sur. Or Carmel. If most of the other folks would leave and go somewhere else. I would also want another home on the beach in Santa Monica. But make most of the other folks either leave town or get off my beach and freeways. :-) San Francisco would be cool, too - hey, I DID live there for one semester in college. Yosemite - ahhh! JFS in Il the native Californian longing for HOME!! ( and if not Ca., then outside Cody, WY on a ranch with horses!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamrachelle Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Ooooh, Chaing Mai is gorgeous. I want to live half the year on a beach (any beach, I'm not picky) and the other half of the year in the mountains. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athomemom Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I secretly or not so secretly long to move to Italy. Where I can drink coffee and wine & be warm. I can look at the mountains and the sea! SIGH. Divine, I tell you divine!! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I'd like to live someplace tropical (because I am freezing right now) or in another country for awhile. It would be neat to spend a year or two living in Europe (if I were independently wealthy) and could travel all over seeing the different sites. I also love Ireland and the culture so would like to live there. I am a country girl at heart and have always lived in a rural area but I have often thought it would be neat to live in a city like Washington DC for about a year to take advantage of all the city has to offer that you just don't get to do in a weekend trip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane in NC Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Half Moon Bay, CA... Lyme Regis... Definitely coastal for me although an apartment in a city like Paris or London would be fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sahamamama Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Heaven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ester Maria Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 (edited) Sicily. And no, I'm not kidding. It's painfully beautiful... and so different from the sad sight of vulgar, dirty, overpopulated, filled-with-tourists, macolata Roma trying to perserve at least some of her dignity in this barbar age which doesn't suit the beauty of that city. Sicily still has some simplicity to it, some correspondence of the territory with the "soul" of the place... (You know I'm in a bad mood in the rare days in which I don't like Rome. :D) Edited February 19, 2011 by Ester Maria Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
journeytolily Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I've always dreamed of living in either England or Scotland, since I was a kid. Those would be my first picks. Then, I think Italy, and any of the Scandinavian counties. Holland, Germany or Belgium seem interesting to me too. Okay, I guess somewhere in Europe! LOL! Veronica Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TammyinTN Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I would love to live in Alaska, Maine...hubby not so much. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mejane Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 The UK. I want to wander the moors. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 If my DH could get a decent job there, I'd move to one of the college towns in New England like Hanover, NH in a heartbeat. Some place that has some of the cultural amenities of city living without all the crime, congestion, and other problems of a big city. Some place relatively close to family so we could see them more than twice a year but far enough away so that we have our privacy ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbie Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Kaui or England Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvbnhome Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 For those who voted Italia...where would you/have you lived in Italia? I would have to say somewhere in Europe...or Thailand (because our 19 year old dd is there right now):) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibbygirl Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 The UK. I want to wander the moors. :001_smile: Just don't go off of the path during a full moon. ;) :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mejane Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Just don't go off of the path during a full moon. ;) :D LOL, no kidding. I love that movie. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ibbygirl Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 LOL, no kidding. I love that movie. :D :) Me too. hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 Manhattan, NYC, NY or New Zealand or Alaskan interior Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted February 19, 2011 Share Posted February 19, 2011 I don't think I'd want to do this for a period of more than two years because I like living near my extended family, but Denmark would be wonderful. Dh's grandfather was Danish and due to the fact that his father (great-grandfather) died when grandpa was only nine months old and his mother, in desperation, married a man who wanted nothing to do with grandpa and placed him in an orphanage, we've got no contact with his relatives there. I really think it would be neat to spend some time in the country and I'd love to see Copenhagen. Dh would like to live in Australia as a second choice to Denmark or New Zealand. DD is in love with New Zealand because of the Lord of the Rings movies having been filmed there. I think "enchanted" would be a good word to describe this. DS #1 would like to live in Germany, ds #2 Denamrk, and ds#3 Israel - we are not of Jewish heritage, he is just fascinated with the history. Faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keptwoman Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Hubby wants to live on a sailboat sailing in the south pacific. Your hubby and my hubby can live together, it's my idea of hell!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaichiki Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 I'd like to live someplace tropical (because I am freezing right now) Me too! :coolgleamA: You'll be needing these! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingersmom Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Why Chiang Mai? I have friends there. I think I could live there too. Dawn I was there in December. We loved it!! My kids think it is just magical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowperch Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Nantucket, MV or Block Island, year round. In a big old farmhouse, on acres, with horses. Paris, in the 4th South of France Venice Costa Rica Belize Senegal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlebug42 Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 I want someplace in the mountains, small town feel with bigger city convenience and in the eastern half of the US. It also needs to be a place with four definable seasons and summers that don't get too hot. I loved living in Austin, Texas when I was there but could not live permanently with summers that hot or with fire ants. While not mountains, I have family living in Eagle River, Wisconsin and I think it is just gorgeous there. I would consider it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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