Where is your dream place...

[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.

[LadyinWhite]

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.

That makes sooo much sense to me. Growing up landlocked, when I first moved to the Jersey shore my nose wrinkled at the salt smell that hangs thick in the air on campus when it's misty. Give me the down home smell of manure. Now, 22 years later, I couldn't imagine living away from the water. We have a sailboat that we keep in Maine at the family summer place and between that and the shoreline here all year, I've become a beach girl. It's true the beauty of the green mountains or the fire red of the leaves in the fall, still takes my breath away but so does the bright afternoon sunshine dancing off the water, the sound of the waves and yes ladies, I've been known to lose my breath catching a glimpse of tan broad shoulders strolling here and there along the boardwalk on a lazy summer day. (Why do you think I wear those cool riding sunglasses? )

Riding along ocean avenue is still my favorite place to ride. Windy as all get out half the time but car width shoulders (on the road!!) in both directions, flat and tracing the waters edge for miles makes it irresistable. Scores of roadies of all types, skill levels, sizes, and outfits joining me.

If only the ocean was WARM! and clean.. I'd settle for clean!! LOL
T.

[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!

[Kimmyt]

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!

Oh now you simply MUST tell! Unless you're keeping it a secret! alas, I'm pretty sure it's not near Colorado Springs.. but that would just be too easy!

K.

[snapdragen]

Oh now you simply MUST tell! Unless you're keeping it a secret! alas, I'm pretty sure it's not near Colorado Springs.. but that would just be too easy!

K.

Boulder maybe?

[five one]

Originally Posted by Kimmyt
Oh now you simply MUST tell! Unless you're keeping it a secret! alas, I'm pretty sure it's not near Colorado Springs.. but that would just be too easy!

K.

Sounds like Estes Park, possibly Steamboat Springs. Aspen WAS that way until the celebrities found it in the 70's. I worked there the summer of 1970. It was wonderful.

I grew up in Littleton in the mid-50's through the 60's. If I could have that place back again, I'd move in the heartbeat. It's grown too much, unfortunately. The core of the town I remember is still there, but it doesn't have the same feel anymore. Time marched on. I'd still move back, though. What's left of my family is there.

[IFjane]

Sounds like Estes Park, possibly Steamboat Springs. Aspen WAS that way until the celebrities found it in the 70's. I worked there the summer of 1970. It was wonderful.

I grew up in Littleton in the mid-50's through the 60's. If I could have that place back again, I'd move in the heartbeat. It's grown too much, unfortunately. The core of the town I remember is still there, but it doesn't have the same feel anymore. Time marched on. I'd still move back, though. What's left of my family is there.

five one - the problem with ski resorts is you have to pay resort prices to live there. Steamboat is nice, so is Aspen - I've spent time in both. I absolutely love Breckenridge. In fact, my son has a house there - but it's too expensive & too touristy. No, this small town is even better as far as I'm concerned....
(is the suspense building?? )

[IFjane]

Boulder maybe?

Sorry ladies - I've been offline since I posted earlier. The town is closer to the Springs than Boulder (both wonderful places, by the way - but not nearly in the mountains enough & too big a town for me).

ok....if I tell do you promise not to overpopulate the place before I get there?

[five one]

The chances of me getting back to CO permanently are nil, so feel free to divulge your secret place .