Where is your dream place...

[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...

[Bikingmomof3]

A small town, quaint and quiet, in either UP Michigan or Maine.

[pyxichick]

I second both the previous posts. Somewhere woodsy for sure, and cold in the winter, preferably with snow (unlike MN this year )

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.

[TrekJeni]

A small town, quaint and quiet, in either UP Michigan or Maine.

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.

Jeni

[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.

[East Hill]

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