Where is your dream place...

[Pax]

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. I'd own no car, very little stuff, and I'd ride my bike everywhere.

[mimitabby]

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

[Kitsune06]

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 ) lots of hunting and fishing, where summers weren't too hot and winters kept idiot people away. 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.

[rocknrollgirl]

The town of Portree on the Isle of Skye, or Grafton Vermont.

[pepe6599]

I'm living in my dream place but if I wasn't living in Hawaii I prob. would move to Nashwille, Tenn.

[Bad JuJu]

Maine or Alaska in the summer, Key West in the winter. Yep, I'd be a snowbird.

[Meaux]

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.

[Xrayted]

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...

[Trek420]

90% of my neighbors would move to California
where there's plenty of room

noooooo....there's room here? where?

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.

[margo49]

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).

[Kimmyt]

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.

[guanajagirl]

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.

[emily_in_nc]

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.

+1

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".

Emily

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

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.

Kimmy, you just described our little house and our little town (except for the being in Colorado part).

[IFjane]

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.

Kimmyt - that town does indeed exist in Colorado - I found it last summer and my dream is to live there someday. Very artsy/funky town, mountains, cycling & a river runs through it....it's gorgeous. Parks, (did I mention cycling?? ) and it seems everyone in town owns a cruiser - up to 50 parked outside restaurant/bars at night!