Where would you live and why?

[SusanJillParker]

Forget about the money, if you could live anywhere, where would you live and why?

Hawaii and Alaska comes to my mind because I've never been there. Paris? Rome? Geneva? Monte Carlo? Las Vegas? Wow!

Alas, I'd return to Boston, my home town. Only, instead of living in the North End of Boston, the historic section near the Old North Church, Faneuil Hall, the Custom House, and Paul Revere's House, I'd live in a swanky high rise in downtown Boston.

I'd want a place high enough that it overlooked the Boston Common, Public Gardens, Charles River, the Esplanade, and Logan Airport. I'd need to win more than a million dollars to afford such a place but if I could live anywhere without money being a factor, I'd live in Boston.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I've been to many places, and the only place I love is Spain. At the moment its socialist and broke but I'm a Spaniard at heart.

 

[SusanJillParker]

I've been to many places, and the only place I love is Spain. At the moment its socialist and broke but I'm a Spaniard at heart.

Do you speak Spanish?

I speak the King's English and I still have my Boston accent. Still a proper Bostonian who worked on Newbury Street and had friends on Beacon Hill and throughout Back Bay, Charlestown, and South Boston, as soon as I open my mouth, people know I'm from Boston.

"Hey, are you from Boston?"

"No. I've never been there actually. I've just watched a lot of movies about Boston, the Kennedy assassination, Good Will Hunting, The Departed, The Fighter, Thomas Crown Affair, Boondock Saints, Monument Ave., Gone Baby Gone, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Next Stop, Wonderland, Mystic River, The Verdict, and The Town where actors, except for Matt Damon, Ben Afflick, Mark Wahlberg, and Robin Williams stumble over the Boston accent and never quite get it right. I'm really an actress practicing my Boston accent while hoping to be discovered to play a part in the next Boston movie they make.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Do you speak Spanish?

I speak the King's English and I still have my Boston accent. Still a proper Bostonian who worked on Newbury Street and had friends on Beacon Hill and throughout Back Bay, Charlestown, and South Boston, as soon as I open my mouth, people know I'm from Boston.

"Hey, are you from Boston?"

"No. I've never been there actually. I've just watched a lot of movies about Boston, the Kennedy assassination, Good Will Hunting, The Departed, The Fighter, Thomas Crown Affair, Boondock Saints, Monument Ave., Gone Baby Gone, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Next Stop, Wonderland, Mystic River, The Verdict, and The Town where actors, except for Matt Damon, Ben Afflick, Mark Wahlberg, and Robin Williams stumble over the Boston accent and never quite get it right. I'm really an actress practicing my Boston accent while hoping to be discovered to play a part in the next Boston movie they make.

Kinda sorta. 45 years ago I did. My kids are 1/2 Cuban and speak no Spanish.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Kinda sorta. 45 years ago I did. My kids are 1/2 Cuban and speak no Spanish.

Half Cuban?

Just wondering...Are they into cars, specifically '56 Chevy's? Do they smoke cigars? Do they play dominoes? Is their favorite sport baseball?

Okay, that's all that I know about Cuba and Cubans.

Only, just wondering, did you know Desi Arnez, Ricky Riccardo? Lucille Ball was really tall, 5'10", I think. Also, I think Eva Mendez is Cuban, isn't she?

I don't think that Cuba Gooding, Jr. is from Cuba or Cuban.

What really comes to mind when thinking about Cuba is Godfather II where Michael Corleone goes to Havana to start a gambling casino with Myer Lansky, the Mob's accountant. Now that I think about it, I love Cuba and Cubans.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Half Cuban?

Just wondering...Are they into cars, specifically '56 Chevy's? Do they smoke cigars? Do they play dominoes? Is their favorite sport baseball?

Okay, that's all that I know about Cuba and Cubans.

Only, just wondering, did you know Desi Arnez, Ricky Riccardo? Lucille Ball was really tall, 5'10", I think. Also, I think Eva Mendez is Cuban, isn't she?

I don't think that Cuba Gooding, Jr. is from Cuba or Cuban.

What really comes to mind when thinking about Cuba is Godfather II where Michael Corleone goes to Havana to start a gambling casino with Myer Lansky, the Mob's accountant. Now that I think about it, I love Cuba and Cubans.

their Cuban ancestors came to Florida in the 1890s, and all were Spaniards before migrating to Cuba. None of them speak Spanish anymore.

 

[oggbashan]

Barrenjoey Road, Palm Beach, north of Sydney, Australia:

http://www.palmbeachrealestate.com.au/property.php?propID=258

Some of my Australian relations live on Barrenjoey Road, but they have a private jetty and tidal swimming pool.

 

[seth6138]

Lake Murray SC; http://lexington-lakemurray.blogspot.com/

 

[SusanJillParker]

Barrenjoey Road, Palm Beach, north of Sydney, Australia:

http://www.palmbeachrealestate.com.au/property.php?propID=258

Some of my Australian relations live on Barrenjoey Road, but they have a private jetty and tidal swimming pool.

I agree with you about Sydney Australia. Only, with Australia home to 9 of the 10 most poisonous spiders, not to mention snakes, I hate spiders.

Whenever I enter a room, I'm armed with a can of spider spray and a flashlight. I can't even imagine putting my foot in my shoe in Australia and being bitten by something hairy and that has eight legs.

Don't get me wrong. I've had sex with a bearded man before who felt as if he had eight hands but spiders...Eww!

 

[DreamCloud]

In a drab boring place. It makes vacations more pleasurable.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

A horse farm in Western Kentucky.

 

[SusanJillParker]

A horse farm in Western Kentucky.

Did you watch the TV series (one seasosn only) Lucky with Dustin Hoffman?

It's all about horses and horse racing. They show some shots of horse farms in Kentucky but I think it takes place in Nevada.

Good show.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Did you watch the TV series (one seasosn only) Lucky with Dustin Hoffman?

It's all about horses and horse racing. They show some shots of horse farms in Kentucky but I think it takes place in Nevada.

Good show.

No. My horses wouldn't race, that's cruel.

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

I've lived in Fort Wayne IN, Baltimore, San Francisco, and London. Now I live in rural Oxfordshire with my husband, two horses, four dogs, his pet pig, and an idiot miniature goat called Roger, and there's nowhere else in the world I'd rather live than here in the rural heart of England.

 

[SusanJillParker]

No. My horses wouldn't race, that's cruel.

Damn!

That's like owning a Mustang GT and never moving it out of first gear.

"Did you see Susan's new Mustang GT?"

"Yeah. I didn't think I'd like an orange car but the black stripes really set it apart."

"Only, she drives so slow. She drives like an old lady."

"She drives like that because she doesn't want to ruin her car."

"Ruin her car? She's ruining her car by not shifting to second, third, and fourth gear."

Same premise but different animals, one is a horse and the other is a Mustang car (lol).

Then again, if you feel that way about horses, you shouldn't watch the movie as a horse is put down after breaking a leg.

Have you watched the movie Buck? It's about Buck Brannaman, the real horse whisperer and where Robert Redford learned what he did to make the movie Horse Whisperer. If you haven't watched Buck and love horses, it's worth seeing.

 

[Nathan_Brazil]

San Juan Islands in winter, Glacier National Park in the summer.

 

[GoldenCojones]

Texas

I'd home port in Corpus but live on a sail boat and sail around the world. It is actually my wife and my retirement dream. Only ten more years to go. <sigh>

 

[FantasyXY]

I know this is kind of boring, but I'd live right where I am now.

I love my home and where I live.

 

[SusanJillParker]

I'd home port in Corpus but live on a sail boat and sail around the world. It is actually my wife and my retirement dream. Only ten more years to go. <sigh>

Obviously, you haven't watched the movie with Robert Redford, All is Lost, where he nearly dies at sea, even though he takes every precaution.

And...obviously, you haven't seen Dead Calm with Nicole Kidman where she's kidnapped by a pirate and he forces her to do dirty, nasty, and despicable, sexual things that I would have loved to do with Billy Zane (lol).

...And what about the Titanic? We all know how that ends.

"Yeah, that's what I'm talkin' about."

Lastly, have you forgotten about Peter Benchley's Jaws or Herman Melville's Moby Dick? ...And what about Pinocchio? He gets swallowed whole by a whale. And what about Peter Pan's Captain Hook? Huh? What about that? Now, you're thinking twice about leaving land.

I'd rather stay in my high rise in Boston with a view of the Boston Harbor. Yet, then again, there was that movie, the Towering Inferno with Steve McQueen and The Tower where a helicopter crashes in a skyscraper. Then, of course, there's 9/11 and the Twin Towers.

God, is there no where that's safe?

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

Damn!

That's like owning a Mustang GT and never moving it out of first gear.

"Did you see Susan's new Mustang GT?"

"Yeah. I didn't think I'd like an orange car but the black stripes really set it apart."

"Only, she drives so slow. She drives like an old lady."

"She drives like that because she doesn't want to ruin her car."

"Ruin her car? She's ruining her car by not shifting to second, third, and fourth gear."

Same premise but different animals, one is a horse and the other is a Mustang car (lol).

Then again, if you feel that way about horses, you shouldn't watch the movie as a horse is put down after breaking a leg.

Have you watched the movie Buck? It's about Buck Brannaman, the real horse whisperer and where Robert Redford learned what he did to make the movie Horse Whisperer. If you haven't watched Buck and love horses, it's worth seeing.

Your analogy doesn't really hold up; some breeds of horses are bred for speed over set distances, this is true, but many other breeds are not capable of racing because of the specialized breeding programs over the centuries that made them what they are; my horses, for instance, are Lipizzaner-Andalusian crosses, 18 hands high, bred for size, power, and endurance; they were originally bred to carry a rider into battle, to be a formidable weapon (hence the moves the Spanish Riding School of Vienna still trains their pure-bred Lipizzaners to do in the show-arena), and fight alongside him, or defend him if he was unhorsed.

That kind of genetic heritage doesn't make for a speedy horse, but it does make it extraordinarily well-suited for the arena; Lipizzaners can pull-off tricks of strength, control, and balance no race-horse or quarter-horse can hope to match, just as I wouldn't expect my horses to make anything but a pitiful showing if pitted in a straight race with a thoroughbred race-horse or quarter-horse. I couldn't hope to train a quarter-horse, or one of my husband's polo ponies, to safely take 1,6 meter gates in the arena, and I doubt you'd want to ride one of my horses if you were trying to escape a sheriff's posse...

 

[SusanJillParker]

Your analogy doesn't really hold up; some breeds of horses are bred for speed over set distances, this is true, but many other breeds are not capable of racing because of the specialized breeding programs over the centuries that made them what they are; my horses, for instance, are Lipizzaner-Andalusian crosses, 18 hands high, bred for size, power, and endurance; they were originally bred to carry a rider into battle, to be a formidable weapon (hence the moves the Spanish Riding School of Vienna still trains their pure-bred Lipizzaners to do in the show-arena), and fight alongside him, or defend him if he was unhorsed.

That kind of genetic heritage doesn't make for a speedy horse, but it does make it extraordinarily well-suited for the arena; Lipizzaners can pull-off tricks of strength, control, and balance no race-horse or quarter-horse can hope to match, just as I wouldn't expect my horses to make anything but a pitiful showing if pitted in a straight race with a thoroughbred race-horse or quarter-horse. I couldn't hope to train a quarter-horse, or one of my husband's polo ponies, to safely take 1,6 meter gates in the arena, and I doubt you'd want to ride one of my horses if you were trying to escape a sheriff's posse...

I bow to your horse knowledge and yes, of course, I agree with you but I was specifically referring to horses used for horse racing.

 

[sr71plt]

I know this is kind of boring, but I'd live right where I am now.

I love my home and where I live.

Somewhere overlooking the harbor in Sydney ranks high, but I'm with FantasyXY--I picked out where I wanted to live already and moved there when I retired.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Damn!

That's like owning a Mustang GT and never moving it out of first gear.

"Did you see Susan's new Mustang GT?"

"Yeah. I didn't think I'd like an orange car but the black stripes really set it apart."

"Only, she drives so slow. She drives like an old lady."

"She drives like that because she doesn't want to ruin her car."

"Ruin her car? She's ruining her car by not shifting to second, third, and fourth gear."

Same premise but different animals, one is a horse and the other is a Mustang car (lol).

Then again, if you feel that way about horses, you shouldn't watch the movie as a horse is put down after breaking a leg.

Have you watched the movie Buck? It's about Buck Brannaman, the real horse whisperer and where Robert Redford learned what he did to make the movie Horse Whisperer. If you haven't watched Buck and love horses, it's worth seeing.

They will be working horses, American Quarter Horses...taking the grandkids for rides and pulling wagons and carriages. Plus cropping the grass in the front yard when needed.

 

[Hypoxia]

Antigua Guatemala.

Because fabulous.

 

[legerdemer]

Barcelona - near or close enough to everywhere I love to be, great food, good wine, affordable (mostly), urban but close to beautiful countryside, mountains, and sea.

At least until I pick up and go elsewhere.