Where is your dream place...

[Trekhawk]

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.

[CyclChyk]

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............

[Tuckervill]

Even though it needs a new roof...

Karen, dying for Spring and blooming azaleas...

[snapdragen]

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.

[emily_in_nc]

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

[Blueberry]

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!

[Tuckervill]

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

[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

[LadyinWhite]

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.

[Pax]

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.

[Bikingmomof3]

a workshop so I can start making jewelry again. Near lots of good cycling roads/trails.

You make jewlery? I love handmade jewlery. Let us know when you get back to making it.