If you could live anywhere, where would it be and why??
I'd live in Key West, my lifes goal is to live where I never have to wear pants EVER again. :D I'd own no car, very little stuff, and I'd ride my bike everywhere.
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If you could live anywhere, where would it be and why??
I'd live in Key West, my lifes goal is to live where I never have to wear pants EVER again. :D I'd own no car, very little stuff, and I'd ride my bike everywhere.
I'd probably live in a town named Sequim, WA, and there would be no cars there.
or I'd live in Southern Italy; and the dollar would be strong and the Euro weak.
or I'd live right where I am but 90% of my neighbors would move to California
where there's plenty of room :D
I'd live somewhere that wasn't too terribly far from nature- raw nature, not little fenced-in dedication to what once was...
a little, solid, rustic wood and stone a-frame on a lake, gravel roads (or not :p :o ) lots of hunting and fishing, where summers weren't too hot and winters kept idiot people away. :p Maybe near a college campus to get the more liberal feel to it.
...and I concur with everything Queen said except the pants part, b/c I like snow.
The town of Portree on the Isle of Skye, or Grafton Vermont.
I'm living in my dream place but if I wasn't living in Hawaii I prob. would move to Nashwille, Tenn.
Maine or Alaska in the summer, Key West in the winter. Yep, I'd be a snowbird.
Cork, Ireland. I went to Ireland almost 4 years ago and I still get sort of homesick for it. I loved it there. However, I would, of course, be able to afford to live there in a very nice home.
Well, I agree with Queen. I can live in shorts, bikini top and sandals all year 'round. I'm not much for snow but I can live with rain. I'd have a stone and wood cabin in the mountains among the trees, with a lake nearby to kayak in. Nice long winding roads and trails to ride my bikes on. Far enough away from the neighbors so I could walk around nekkid but near enough to town so I wouldn't need my car. I would want to be within an hour or so drive to the ocean. Is there such a place? I'm currently searching... :D
A small town, quaint and quiet, in either UP Michigan or Maine.
I second both the previous posts. Somewhere woodsy for sure, and cold in the winter, preferably with snow (unlike MN this year:mad: )
My sister lives in Key West. She loves it there because of the weather, but she's had to endure hurricanes and I don't think it would be a good place for a road cyclist, since there's only one very busy road out of town. I guess you could take up kayaking instead.:)
Either Boulder, Colorado (bike heaven) or someplace in Maine. Also wouldn't mind somewhere around Ketchum, Idaho or maybe St. George, Utah. All places I'm considering once I retire.
Tell your sister I am SOOOOO jealous! I visit Key West as often as money allows and since my other sporting passions are scuba and kayaking I think it would be nirvana. If I were unattached I'd move there tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by pyxichick
I'd want to live in a quaint cottage somewhere warm all the time, like Queen, but not scorching, drippingly humid/hot (as NC can be in mid-July), car-free, where I could ride or walk or sail or kayak everywhere. I'm thinking Hopetown, Bahamas might be the only place that fits the bill -- there aren't many car-free places around, I've looked. I could handle Mackinac Island, MI in the summer for a change of scenery.
I've never been to Hopetown, or even the Bahamas. Love the BVIs, but there are maniac drivers there. Jost Van D--yke (edited) would work as there are very few vehicles on the very few roads, but it's not very bikeable; it's mountainous, and there is pretty much just one road back and forth (though DH and I did hike around the island once, which was the toughest 7 miles of my life!)
We're toying with the idea of a liveaboard sailing catamaran someday, so we could check out all the islands...taking sailing lessons now. Our Bike Fridays could go along for the ride and be taken onshore in bikeable places! :D
Emily
When I was little I lived in NYC, was happy there but dreamed of living in the country. At age 12 we moved to the country (the same little town I live now) and I was happy there but dreamed of moving back to the city. Then I moved back to the city, was happy there but wound up moving to Puerto Rico. I was happy there for years, then I dreamed of moving back to the little town in the country here. Then I moved back here and realized that there are a lot of places that seem like they would be the absolute best place to live, but in actuality might be better just to visit.
Nowadays, after 19 years of living back here in my little rural town, I like daydreaming about living in places like France, Quebec, Maine, Vermont, etc. But I know I'd want to be back here after a while....at last I am content where I am. -probably because I am (finally) happy on the INSIDE. :rolleyes:
But i'd love to visit France and Italy one day... ;)
A cottage on a lake in the mountains. Big mountains. Lots of pine trees.
But, we'd have to keep a sailboat somewhere - after we finish the Circle Route, it will be there for us when we need to smell salt air again.
An old house on small acreage in Tasmania with a view of the mountains and perhaps the D'Entrecasteau Channel. Mild summers, cooler winters and the purest air in the world to breathe. :)
I want - a 2200-2500 hundred sq ft house on the beach (perhaps Florida) with lots of glass windows (kinda like the house in the movie Sleeping with the Enemy) - and then I would want a cabin to vacation in on Sebec Lake in Maine..... (where I married my man).............
All with tons of land for my doggies to frolic of course............
Even though it needs a new roof...
Karen, dying for Spring and blooming azaleas...
Someplace green, with a creek or river. Nothing too big, a cottage for me and Chloe, with a room for the occasional guest. Room for a small vege garden, oh, and a workshop so I can start making jewelry again. Near lots of good cycling roads/trails.
Karen, what a darling house! Just the cottage-y style I love. :)
I absolutely love our house in the woods, too, especially the secluded setting (11 acres), many birds, huge hardwood trees, deer, and trails all around us....but I have wanderlust as well. I'm kinda like Lisa says she used to be. Whatever lifestyle/setting I don't have, I crave. I live in a rural area now, so I crave city life, where I could walk everywhere and have coffee or a glass of wine in a quaint cafe along the street, or pop into a bookstore. I live in the woods, so I crave the beach, the islands, water all around me, blues instead of browns and greens. I'm content and happy where I am most of the time, but I don't want to die having lived in North Carolina for all of my days.
There's just too much more to see and experience, and a vacation isn't always enough time to really experience a place.
Emily
Very well said Emily!Quote:
Originally Posted by emily_in_nc
Thanks! It's the house I used to draw when I was a little girl, lace curtains and everything. It was a long-suppressed urge to own an old dame, that I didn't know I had until I saw this one. It looks really nice in the spring, with lots of old roses planted by former owners, and honeysuckle and peonies and mums. Lots of mums. :O The garden needs a lot of work.
Yes, I've thought about what I'd do if it were only me. Would I live on the beach, in the city, or in some funky little area of some midsized place with lots of interesting people?
I've decided it's just too expensive to live in those trendy places, so I'll live where it's cheap and then I'll have the money to VISIT all those places as much as I want! That way I'd never get tired of one place, and can experience variety. I get a thrill just *thinking* about traveling. :)
Karen
noooooo....there's room here? where?Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
Me, somewhere I can garden, ride of course, don't have to shovel snow, places I've liked have been Santa Cruz, Oregon, Central Coast but I still have not seen the East Coast in a while.
I'd rather have a small house and large'ish yard, like to live around quirky progressive people, artsy folk, music and art nearby.
Sea (ocean) view, hills behind (green), biking-close to a library, a bookshop, a pub/bar/cafe and a supermarket with good fresh-produce and natural/health/vego foods departments.
Weather is irrelevant - that is just a matter of clothing, and I can pick up any language in 3 months.
Thought-provoking thread, btw; as I am happy where I am (we are).
Colorado.
Hopefully things will work to move there around 2010-ish... though I really will miss the East Coast.
Basically I'd love to live in a large town/small city that has a distinct main street/neighborhood feel to it. I'd like to be able to ride my bike everywhere in town, to have 'my local coffee shop' and 'my florist' and lots of mys. I'd like to live in a small quirky house with a little porch that has lots of windchimes hanging off of it.
I don't know if it exists, but I hope someday to find this town/house.... and hopefully find that it exists in Colorado or some other mountainous area!
K.
My dream place... In the great country of Texas of course;) Maybe around the San Antonio area or Austin. Not city though, out in the hills. Pref on a lake with a ski boat parked and enough wakeboards and gas to keep me busy all summer.
Back to home, England. Lancashire would be my first choice (although not necessarily where I was born, Swinton). Yorkshire for a second choice.
But England.
East Hill
Born and raised in Vermont, all I want is to live some place where winter means 65 at its coldest. Some place with a beach close by and amazing snorkling (my absolute favorite thing to do.). I'd never tire of it. A place to ride would be an added plus but if I had to choose between clear warm waters with reefs below and cycling, I'd take the water in a heart beat.
Hear, hear! I was talking motorcycles with the captain of our scuba boat one time in Key West (he had a Ducati tattoo), I asked him how he could live in such a small place without having his bike and endless miles of roads to ride anymore...he pondered the question for a moment and turned his gaze to the ocean, he swept his arm towards the sea and just looked at me and smiled.Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyinWhite
You make jewlery? I love handmade jewlery. Let us know when you get back to making it. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
Trek,Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
You just described Yellow Springs, Ohio. :D
Lance Armstrong's house. Any one of them. :D :) :p
That sounds like Mom's house :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
Sonoma's pretty cool, and it's a nice small house with a largish yard. But I'm happy where I am. Four seasons, all with lots of weather to talk about. Just the right size town -- there's theater and symphony and plenty of movies to choose from, but you can walk everywhere and there are woods and lakes and fjord all around. Pretty much perfect, long as I can travel and visit other places too. Still ... wherever you go, there you are.
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Originally Posted by Kimmyt
I always tell myself I will live in a place like this one day. But for me, it needs to be warm, most of the time at least. And I'm not sure where to go about finding such a place. I'm hoping we'll stumble across it in our travels and just know "this is it". :o
Emily
There are quirky, progressive people in Ohio? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3
My in-laws live there, and the parts I've seen/been to (many times) are quite traditional and conservative. They live outside Canton and in Highland Heights (DH's parents and brother, respectively), so admittedly, that's a very small slice of Ohio, but I do always think of it as conservative and traditional as a state... Then again, the county I live in in NC is a blue county in a red state, so I guess there can be pockets of progressive folks just about anywhere!
I've never heard of Yellow Springs -- it sounds neat. Is that where you live, Jennifer?
Emily
Kimmy, you just described our little house and our little town (except for the being in Colorado part). ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kimmyt
Emily,Quote:
Originally Posted by emily_in_nc
Yellow Springs is where my not so local bike shop is located. :) It is indeed an artsy, quirky town. :cool: I live about 20 miles south west of Yellow Springs, in a city which is unfortunately very conservative. *sigh*
I'm just hoping to one day get to choose where I live at all!!! I think Augusta, Ga is on the list as well as Middle Texas (Austin, San Antonio, etc). Being married to a career Army Officer, I haven't EVER gotten any choice in where I live. We've only owned our own home one time (and that was only for 3 years). Key for me--NO SNOW!!!
So pretty much, I'd be happy to be able to pick out where I live, and actually buy a house I want to live in, rather than settle for something that will "do for now".
Sigh---when will that happen??
Oh my ladyfish I read this and thought that is me. Im married to an Airforce Officer so I know your pain. I just keep telling myself one day I will get to decide and it will be sweeeet.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by ladyfish
The house I grew up in is located 15 miles north of Mackinac Island in the UP. I would like to live on Mackinac year round. In the MIDDLE of the island where the locals live. I could ride in the summer (although I would have to get off the island to do any real riding and snowmobile and cross country ski in the winter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bikingmomof3
Jeni