Assuming you could move easily with no concerns about work, where would you live? Cost of living is a consideration.

I live in Chicago now but would probably live in the Raleigh area or southern California. (The latter would be expensive, I know.)

Ideally I'd stay in Chicago but this place is going downhill quickly.

8/22/2016 8:47:13 AM

I think I would like to live in Colorado again

8/22/2016 8:59:06 AM

Sweet Home, OR

8/22/2016 9:07:05 AM

If I could get an EU or UK work visa (not sure how it's affected with Brexit), I'd be gone.

8/22/2016 9:28:05 AM

the moon

8/22/2016 9:41:58 AM

Waterfront village in SW of England in a second..

8/22/2016 9:42:11 AM

In a volcano

8/22/2016 10:11:59 AM

Sydney, Australia. Went there a few years ago and it was such a wonderful city.

8/22/2016 10:18:09 AM

Beachfront on some Caribbean island that isn't too remote but also not too touristy.

8/22/2016 10:25:37 AM

Caracas, Venezuela

8/22/2016 10:29:28 AM

Seville

8/22/2016 10:52:42 AM

The beaches of baraawe, minus al-shabaab and the pirates. Or Paris

8/22/2016 10:52:49 AM

Bozeman, MT

8/22/2016 11:00:42 AM

London

8/22/2016 11:25:38 AM

Quote :

"Seville"

I don't know why you'd want to live in a tiny town in Ohio.

8/22/2016 11:31:40 AM

I'd move from Olympic Village to Olympic Village

8/22/2016 11:34:38 AM

I hear the one from the 1980 Lake Placid games is really nice.

8/22/2016 11:44:38 AM

Some gorgeous old town in Italy or Span, preferably by the sea, but also near enough to a modern city.

Or, some Caribbean, Indian Ocean, or Pacific Ocean island.


[Edited on August 22, 2016 at 11:51 AM. Reason : ]

8/22/2016 11:50:20 AM

Cary

8/22/2016 12:00:58 PM

Off Kaplan.

8/22/2016 12:28:33 PM

Brevard, NC

8/22/2016 1:04:15 PM

If it's a place in Raleigh I wish I could afford to live in Historic Oakwood or Boylan Heights. Kinsey St. would be awesome. Have a historic place with uninterrupted skyline views and still be walking distance to everything good in Raleigh? Yes please.

8/22/2016 1:11:01 PM

Honestly if I did not have to work I would move to Carolina Beach. Not saying I would never get bored with it, but it would take a while....

8/22/2016 1:57:35 PM

Hmmm...maybe OBX? Charleston? Kiawah Island? Carlsbad/La Jolla/Coronado area?

8/22/2016 2:11:29 PM

move there. life is too short not to enjoy it.

8/22/2016 2:18:04 PM

Oh, if we're talking about actually putting our money where our mouth is, then...I'd pick where I live right now. Nice beaches and lots of water; I don't like anything else about it except for one thing: living here allows me to have my daughter live with me half the time --and that makes every other consideration a very distant 2nd.

[Edited on August 22, 2016 at 2:30 PM. Reason : I would apply to grad school and put my house up for sale today, otherwise]

8/22/2016 2:29:32 PM

I'd love to live in NYC.

8/22/2016 2:30:16 PM

...for like, a year, yeah.

8/22/2016 2:30:40 PM

This place : https://www.compass.com/listing/57-montague-street-unit-11c-brooklyn-ny-11201/6d06744f13d26810480e0c99790242ecfbe7d497/

8/22/2016 2:31:21 PM

What's so great about living at or near the beach?

I'm sure I'd get tired of that shit much faster than I would NYC.

8/22/2016 2:32:26 PM

probably nothing if you aren't a beach/water person...

but i love it. other than for 2-7 months at a time while I was in the Marines, I haven't lived more than a few miles from water since 2005. I'm less tired of it than ever! I went sailing yesterday...hopefully SCUBA diving this weekend...been out boating probably 10 times this year, hanging out on islands and beaches. I love looking out at it as I'm driving, or going out flying and cruising up down the beach and around the bays.

I love to ski, and curvy mountain roads are fun with a sports car or motorcycle...and that's great scenery too, but I think I'd rather live at the beach and vacation to the mountains. I certainly see the case for the opposite, though.

8/22/2016 2:41:17 PM

new zealand near a beach

8/22/2016 2:44:56 PM

I always wonder about living on one of the main hawaiian islands...anyone have any experience with that?

also if I wasn't american, I think I'd want to be an australian

8/22/2016 3:25:44 PM

Life ain't bad in California, but I really dig the PacNW and could see myself just as happy in Seattle.

8/22/2016 3:47:43 PM

^^ Yeah, I've been on the big island for the last 2 years. It's not great to be honest. Expensive, isolated, and takes a very special type of person to really love it. It might work as a retirement destination, but I'm ready to be out of there.

Oahu might be better because of Honolulu so there's more going on, more access to the things you don't ever really think about (more than a couple things at the movie theater, selection of places to get groceries, etc) but Honolulu is a nightmare of its own because of overcrowding, traffic, etc.

Hawaii is awesome for a month or so, lots to see good beaches, etc. but after that the charm wears off pretty quick.

8/22/2016 5:21:58 PM

I like to explore and be mobile, so NYC would suite me very well. A beach or near water I'd get bored after like a week. All there is to is drink alcohol, and (stuff involving)water?? Sure it's fun and do like that kind of stuff, but I would not want to live there. Much more life and things to do it a big city for me.

8/22/2016 5:37:38 PM

It's not even that, it's the fact that you don't have the option, and you're 6 hours behind the East coast, 3 behind the west coast.

The time difference is a big deal, which you might not realize at first. Nobody wants to watch the NFL at 7am or have to avoid twitter spoilers all fucking day to watch game of thrones.

8/22/2016 5:46:06 PM

Ah, never thought about these things!

8/22/2016 5:51:05 PM

I wouldn't mind moving to the southwest somewhere just to be closer to the national parks in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona.

8/22/2016 6:01:05 PM

National parks are for communists.

8/22/2016 11:15:11 PM

^What is wrong with national parks? I would like to see the Mighty 5 of Utah, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Glacier, and White Sands NM before I die.

8/22/2016 11:49:25 PM

Don't say that around your republican buddies, they will inform you national parks are just wasted opportunities for fracking and rare earth metal mining.

8/22/2016 11:52:24 PM

^I side with Republicans on a lot of issues, but they aren't always right. We can survive for quite a while without having to worry about tearing up our national parks anytime soon. I'm pretty sure most politicians on both sides are cool with having national parks.

8/22/2016 11:56:25 PM

of the places I've been? Telluride.

8/23/2016 2:11:10 AM

#1 san diego, ca (preferably LJ or beach towns north like solana/encinitas)
#2 islamorada, fl (though only w/ a boat)

i would like to be on/near the ocean, currently living in a landlocked country...

moving to the south of france in october though, so maybe that will suffice

8/23/2016 12:16:17 PM

Denver

Major airport, baseball team, somewhat walkable city area, proximity to awesome outdoors shit for all seasons

8/23/2016 12:22:50 PM

I like the surrounding areas of Denver (especially Boulder), but I find Denver proper to be one of the most overrated American cities I've been to. It has all the problems of big cities (traffic, homelessness, sprawl) but not as many of the charms. I liked the breweries I went to and once you head west on I70 or north towards Ft Collins, the scenery improves drastically, but overall it's kind of an ugly, Great Plains city imo.

8/23/2016 2:25:10 PM

Somewhere in Colorado near mountains.

If I was single, I'd already be there since I telecommute full-time now.

8/23/2016 3:09:20 PM

Telluride barely qualifies as real life

by far the most idealistic town I've been to, that also doubles as the most beautiful

8/23/2016 3:20:46 PM

^ not the first time I've heard that. Haven't been there yet.

8/23/2016 4:13:39 PM