Dream Places to Live

[digital angel]

If you could live any where, where would it be? I would live in a big city that has a higher educational institution or two in it or near it.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Seattle, WA.

Just need the dream life. And the dream wife.


Great minds think alike:
http://intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=8658

 

[xbox]

Virginia, such a beautiful state.

 

[Bird]

A distant nebula.

 

[Claytoe]

Anywhere on the West coast or London. So much money I never need to work again? Mallorca, Spain maybe Buenos Aires.

 

[Stoic Beverage]

Everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

 

[Cavallier]

I still can't agree on the Seattle thing. The jazz music scene is better in Portland......actually, it's probably more prolific in Seattle since Seattle is the bigger city. More bums though.

I want to travel. It doesn't really matter where I "live" since I'll never be home.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I still can't agree on the Seattle thing. The jazz music scene is better in Portland......actually, it's probably more prolific in Seattle since Seattle is the bigger city. More bums though.

I have my reasons for liking Seattle, it's not something objective.

I want to travel. It doesn't really matter where I "live" since I'll never be home.

True, either settle anywhere(and make it personal) or keep moving.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

I'd love to live in California, but because of the tectonic plates and such, I think I'd rather not.
Canada sounds awesome too, but the winters are too long for my taste.

Maybe the south of France is the best option... Lovely food, close to italy(PIZZA), lovely weather...

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I'd love to live in California, but because of the tectonic plates and such, I think I'd rather not.

If you can't handle the plates, get outta the kitchen.

 

[Sensi Star]

I'm one of those liberal hippy INTPs, so California; and if the phony celebrity culture gets to annoy me, then to Colorado it is.

For something more novel however, I would choose near a gorgeous forest in Thailand.

 

[Solitaire U.]

Lived in the Coachella Valley, CA for 16 years. Loved it...nothing but windmills, sand dunes and wide open desert as far as the eye could see, that being far indeed on a typical day. If the local economy wasn't as arid as the region, I'd be content to hang with the snowbirds there for the rest of my life.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

If you can't handle the plates, get outta the kitchen.

Hmm I've changed my mind, actually, I don't know too much about the risks. I would like to know how big the risk is of a major earthquake there...
If it's not too big I'd love to go to California.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Hmm I've changed my mind, actually, I don't know too much about the risks. I would like to know how big the risk is of a major earthquake there...
If it's not too big I'd love to go to California.

The last big one was between 91-93. They're so infrequent that it's a waste of time anticipating them. It's also our only source of recurrent natural disasters, so there's really nothing to worry about in the meantime.

 

[Emil-san]

Top of a mountain. Somewhere beautiful. Possibly asia. Anywhere I can meditate, watch the scenery or just be alone and think.

 

[Chimera]

Somewhere safe, with the person I love, and with a good internet.

Scenery-wise, I'd love to live in a mountainous area or near the sea, on the fringes of a small town with plenty of space to roam. But that part is much less important to me.
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[library]

Somewhere safe, with the person I love, and with a good internet.

This, plus extensive record collection and turntable, in a sustainable house that I built myself, out of the city.

 

[a detached retina]

Everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

Me too. To exist in a state of transit, would be technically everywhere. But it's not really anywhere. Modern nomads.

 

[rm9402]

I think I would love to just travel the world. Just being a drifter, like being in Europe for a couple months
then living somewhere in Latin America the next. That just seems fun to me I guess, if that makes sense.

 

[Claytoe]

I haven't lived in even an apartment for year since I was 17. I am right now on the West Coast of Canada. I moved her about 10 months and have moved already. Its pretty rad here for now. I think I need to accept that I will never be fully content with the where and whys of my life. Travelling constantly was amazing, until I got tired and wanted to stop a little while, then its stressful. Living in Toronto for a few years partying, making friends seeing music shows was amazing, until I want to start building a longer-term life for myself. It will be awesome here until I really face with the prospect of staying in Vancouver for 6+ years, then I will want to go again.

My list of places I would like to be and need to do anything in particular to survive. Buenos Aires, Marseille, London, Mallorca, St. Andrew- Trinidad. All of excellent unique, relaxed, cultures. (London excluded from the relaxed part!)

 

[Terynna]

If they had high speed internet then the highlands of Scotland, or a remote area of Ireland. I like the British Isles, but I can't live without the internet, or I would have to do stuff that I don't like to do, like socialize or go outside. So with that in mind, I guess the most remote place possible with the best internet availalbe. Let me know when you find this Utopia.

 

[Claytoe]

If they had high speed internet then the highlands of Scotland, or a remote area of Ireland. I like the British Isles, but I can't live without the internet, or I would have to do stuff that I don't like to do, like socialize or go outside. So with that in mind, I guess the most remote place possible with the best internet availalbe. Let me know when you find this Utopia.

Small towns in Peru, Chile or Argentina the Andes close enough to a tourist town. Maybe 40 minutes outside of Mendoza, Argentina, perpetual Autumn framed by some of the most stellar mountains in the world. The internet won't be blazing fast but money talks there and the services exist in the region. I spent about 3 months in Andes of those nations, its amazing. If you want to feel alone even when you have to be around people any Quecha area in the mountains will make you feel as if you are on an alien planet.

 

[Roboman]

I like where I live. Wouldn't mind a penthouse in Miami tho.

 

[mke2686]

Cali cultivating cannabis for a living with a wife to bake all that green into cookies, cakes etc... oh and maybe a dog but probably no kids

 

[A22]

My SimCity city. Yeah, like Sheldon

 

[Lobstrich]

I'd like to live in Japan, of course I don't know if I would like being there, I think I would. It's kind of funny though, alot of 'white people' that move to Japan move there because they are either fanatic anime fans or because they are just into the whole 'kawaii-nihon' thing. I really hate anime though, I just find Japanese culture interesting, it's landscape beautiful and it's language as well.

EDIT: I'd like to live (almost) anywhere but my own country. I just think Japan was the 'lucky pick'

 

[addiboy]

Sweden - I've got a strange fascination with the place, perhaps because of it's level of sophistication and it's excellent language. I'm from Australia, btw.

 

[Lobstrich]

Sweden - I've got a strange fascination with the place, perhaps because of it's level of sophistication and it's excellent language. I'm from Australia, btw.

Level of sophistication?? Could you elaborate?

 

[Machiavelli]

A very big city. With a lot of fancy lights, big buildings and open-minded people. But your still protected by being blended in the mass, and the city mass is a weird mass so the attention is not on you. (feeling anonymous).

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

Somewhere close to nature.

 

[Melllvar]

This sort of place would suite me nicely:

[bimgx=600]http://www.eslteachersboard.com/webbbs/images/latin-america/pic34.jpg[/bimgx]

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

^that is fucking cool

 

[xbox]

As of now I want to live in an underground hole forever.

 

[Sensi Star]

Sweden - I've got a strange fascination with the place, perhaps because of it's level of sophistication and it's excellent language. I'm from Australia, btw.

Yea, me too. Their culture has a certain sophisticated quality to it that's hard to describe. I picture the place to be filled with castle-like architecture, with the dwellings being cozy and somewhat luxurious. Not OVERT luxury like we have in rich areas in the U.S., but a certain passive elegance that is not too 'loud'. Anyway, that's just my mental image from the little I know about Sweden. I feel the same way about Norway too. The languages are really cool sounding as well.

It is known, however, that the Swedish and Norwegian have among the highest 'standards of living' in the world. I would imagine Scandinavia in general to have a high quality of life.

 

[PennyRoyalty]

I'd live to live out in California, the drug scene out there seems pretty great and the music scene is just fantastic. It's a great place to be for hip hop right now, great lyricists coming out of the west coast.

 

[Sosekopp]

Yea, me too. Their culture has a certain sophisticated quality to it that's hard to describe. I picture the place to be filled with castle-like architecture, with the dwellings being cozy and somewhat luxurious. Not OVERT luxury like we have in rich areas in the U.S., but a certain passive elegance that is not too 'loud'. Anyway, that's just my mental image from the little I know about Sweden. I feel the same way about Norway too. The languages are really cool sounding as well.

It is known, however, that the Swedish and Norwegian have among the highest 'standards of living' in the world. I would imagine Scandinavia in general to have a high quality of life.

It is good to live here, and I don't think I would move to any other country. Just remember to follow the Jante Law and you'll be fine.

 

[Machiavelli]

It is good to live here, and I don't think I would move to any other country. Just remember to follow the Jante Law and you'll be fine.

Very interesting... I also recognize this 'Jante Law' in the small Flemish cities. It's one of the reasons why I hate the mentality of Flemish people, although there are some differences (Flemish people like to show off with their stuff, but in a very fake modest way).

 

[EyeSeeCold]

It is good to live here, and I don't think I would move to any other country. Just remember to follow the Jante Law and you'll be fine.

All these "Don't Thinks", must be Feelers or something.

 

[Sensi Star]

It is good to live here, and I don't think I would move to any other country. Just remember to follow the Jante Law and you'll be fine.

Now that's a society that I would feel comfortable with. Humility and collectivism is the key to a healthy society imo.

 

[digital angel]

This sort of place would suite me nicely:

[bimgx=600]http://www.eslteachersboard.com/webbbs/images/latin-america/pic34.jpg[/bimgx]

This is nice.

 

[digital angel]

As of now I want to live in an underground hole forever.

Keep your chin up. It will get better.

 

[Lobstrich]

Yea, me too. Their culture has a certain sophisticated quality to it that's hard to describe. I picture the place to be filled with castle-like architecture, with the dwellings being cozy and somewhat luxurious. Not OVERT luxury like we have in rich areas in the U.S., but a certain passive elegance that is not too 'loud'. Anyway, that's just my mental image from the little I know about Sweden. I feel the same way about Norway too. The languages are really cool sounding as well.

It is known, however, that the Swedish and Norwegian have among the highest 'standards of living' in the world. I would imagine Scandinavia in general to have a high quality of life.

You seem to have a somewhat(very) romantic view on how Scandinavia is. I'm part Danish part Norwegian myself, so I don't consider myself biased towards the two countries you mentioned in particular.

Scandinavian standards are above average, I'd say. But We're not any more sophisticated than Italians, French or Germans. If you like Sweden for it's "dwellings" small hill side houses almost like hobbits. Then you'd probably be better off in Norway. It's far more "hilly"(to say the least) there, than in Sweden or Denmark.

EDIT: And the "Jantelov" like Sosekopp mentioned. I've never met a single Scandinavian who liked the Jante law, but it's deep within our mentality, and it sucks. In my opinion, crab mentality is not very sophisticated, rather the opposite.

 

[Lobstrich]

Now that's a society that I would feel comfortable with. Humility and collectivism is the key to a healthy society imo.

It's good on paper, like communism. But like I mentioned in my other post, what we have a crab mentality. There's nothing to be gained from that, everyone who's remotely different is branded arrogant. Anyone who dares to have ambitions is looked upon as if he/she is pretty much on drugs, thinking about far fetched stuff that's "never gonna happen" Man I hate Denmark...

 

[Ex-User (4771)]

I would live outside space time, a place with a portal gun, the fallout universe, the Bleach Universe (if i was a Shinigami with alot of potential, but obviously i would have to work for it), the star trek universe, or Ireland

 

[deadcaribou]

I'm actually thinking about the criteria I should take into consideration to pick the place I want to move to and build a house in 2-3 years (if I ever get the money for that!)
My criteria : nice weather, super quiet place / no neighbors as far as my eyes can see!, excellent internet connection, <1 hour drive from intl airport, <3 hours to the capital city by train, near the sea/ocean, schools for the kids, cheap land.
Some places in the south of France meet these criteria quite closely. Italy would be great to (Tuscany!) I love Asia but wouldn't settle permanently I guess.

 

[PapyrusAirplanes]

On planet Shine, or on Pandora (not considering the atmosphere).

... Oh, Earth? Teton Valley, Idaho or just east of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, near Boulder. In a log cabin with a big dog and a couple horses, and a Steinway baby grand in its own studio, and an entire room for a library and study, and miles of trails on mountainsides, and bonfires, and a bunch of foster kids.

Or Oxford.

 

[Smooch]

Seattle, WA.

I feel inexplicably drawn to Seattle ^__^


Other than that I'd like to travel as much as possible.

 

[Nocturne]

Possibly in Venice, Italy. <3

 

[Dr. Freeman]

A secret moon base.

 

[Kate]

A log house in an almost rural like setting in either Portland, Seattle, or Vancouver.