Where is your dream place...

[Trek420]

bump! The subject of "best places to live" came up and this thread is great

[snowtulip]

Thanks Trek, your "search" skills are excellent!

[silver]

the beach! Alabama or Floridapan handle.

[MillieNZ]

Funny......... i filled in the questionare and it brought up Portland as my ideal spot to live............................. which is where my SIL lives and where Tim is keen to live should we move back to the States

[Bad JuJu]

the beach! Alabama or Floridapan handle.

Well come on down! I live here, on the bayshore at roughly the center of this map (northwest of Pensacola, halfway between Pensacola and Milton).

[IFjane]

Well come on down! I live here, on the bayshore at roughly the center of this map (northwest of Pensacola, halfway between Pensacola and Milton).

I was in Destin for four days in October - absolutely gorgeous! Sun, sugar sand, sun....margaritas.....sun....

Silver, it's wonderful - the only drawbacks I see are 1. it is FLAT as a pancake and 2. there is lots of traffic....

Disclaimer: Observations are from a hill hater/lover and a mountain/rural area lover. Still....at 12 degrees outside right now, that warm sun is REALLY tempting!

[Bad JuJu]

I was in Destin for four days in October - absolutely gorgeous! Sun, sugar sand, sun....margaritas.....sun....

Silver, it's wonderful - the only drawbacks I see are 1. it is FLAT as a pancake and 2. there is lots of traffic....

And 3. Hurricane Season!

Actually the traffic decreases and the relaxed rural character of the area re-asserts itself when you escape the tourist-choked streets of Destin, and there's an occasional modest hill to be found if you head inland a bit. But even we get some chilly weather--31 degrees when we got up this morning! Still, I guess that beats 12 degrees!

[IFjane]

.....HOW COULD I FORGET??

And I was there right in the height of hurricane season - but the weather was calm and beautiful.

JuJu - I am sure it is a wonderful place to live. It certainly was wonderful to kick back for a few days with some GF's and act like none of us had a care in the world.

Also, believe me, at this point I will take 31 over 12 any day!

Spring.....please come!!!

[silver]

Well come on down! I live here, on the bayshore at roughly the center of this map (northwest of Pensacola, halfway between Pensacola and Milton).

OMG! We were so close to you. I don't know how you got that map to work, but we were staying at a condo at approx. Sanchez Lane and Gulf Beach Highway. Are you doing the pensacola triathlon On April 27th (?) We've got the condo and I'm planning to do it. I'm getting pretty excited about it. I wonder if I'll need a wetsuit? I think I may have to find one.

My parents live in Gulf Shores and I love the area. Sure the tourists can be annoying. But I love it there!

[tulip]

Europe: Brittany, Bordeaux/La Rochelle or thereabouts (Charente-Maritimes), somewhere in Ireland, Portugal.

US: on the east coast, near the water, south of Maryland, north of Florida. Edisto Island, SC is awfully nice, as is the Chesapeake Bay.

From time to time, I think I'll go back to Nicaragua where I spent a week on a sustainable coffee plantation in the cloud forest. It's fantastic there.

[Bad JuJu]

OMG! We were so close to you. I don't know how you got that map to work, but we were staying at a condo at approx. Sanchez Lane and Gulf Beach Highway. Are you doing the pensacola triathlon On April 27th (?) We've got the condo and I'm planning to do it. I'm getting pretty excited about it. I wonder if I'll need a wetsuit? I think I may have to find one.

My parents live in Gulf Shores and I love the area. Sure the tourists can be annoying. But I love it there!

OMG back atcha, Silver! I'd love to meet you when you're here in April! I'm not a triathlete (never learned to love running), but I sometimes go as a spectator. And my cycling buddy often works the transition areas. I'd love to come and cheer you on. Go TE!

AintDoody, another TE-er, was here last year, and we were just able to squeeze in one casual afternoon ride together.

Definitely let's get in touch when it gets closer to the date. I'll PM you with my phone number.

Oh, and back on topic, MY choices of places to live include coastal Maine, coastal SC, and Portland, OR, for vastly different reasons. Where I'll end up--who knows? Looking to retire in maybe 5 years, then we'll see.

[Aggie_Ama]

I have discovered my Nirvana, unfortunately so have all the people getting rich off Dell. My husband's family owns a lot of property in Stonewall, TX. It is near Fredericksburg but so quiet. You sit in his Oma's living room and can see the farm road but then there is about a 1,000 acres behind the house. If you look towards the road there is a big picture window and you can watch the goats play.

Unfortunately, they have started selling "ranchettes" out there- 5-10 acres where some city folk can raise cattle and pretend to be ranchers. Just too many of those popping up for this native Texan. Love you all but please go home. The cycling is great but the winters are a little bitter for me. So since I can do what I want.... I would have a beach house in Key West or the sleepy little Texas town of Port Aransas.

[Trek420]

Thanks Trek, your "search" skills are excellent!

Why thank you. Finally a use for my font of worthless trivia like "when we discussed this what were a couple of the words in the title?"