Where in the World?

[BucksMaster]

Happy with the country you live in or would you rather live somewhere else?

Discuss,please,in 300 words.Or more or less.

 

[yossi]

I'm content where I am, but I wouldn't mind giving another country/state/city a go.

 

[Tiamo15]

I got the chance to move to wherever I wanted in the United States due to a very flexible career. From what I've learned in past experiences, I wanted to experience all the seasons somewhat, yet not be so cold in the winter... Preferably be somewhere where I can enjoy the outdoors... With no mosquitos... Be in somewhat of a central location so I can travel or packages can travel quickly throughout the states...

I chose Colorado! It's been perfect for me, I love it here. I even lived in the mountains for a bit and although it was so beautiful, it was challenging. I now just have the mountains as a beautiful backdrop to where I live. The weather is almost always perfect (especially love the months of September and October) and even in the deepest of winter, the sun will come out and melt the snow off my driveway and brighten my day. I'm close to so many hiking opportunities which is one of my favorite pasttimes. Friends and family love to visit when they come to Colorado to ski, or I simply go visit them in their preferred ski resorts.

2/3 of 300 words

 

[InternationalFunboy]

This question is one of the reasons I wish I'd been born rich. Or at least come into a windfall the size of mountains after I'd struggled enough to appreciate it and not piss it away. Enough that working everyday for a living was not strictly necessary, and the unfortunate filling of ones creative and wanderlust-driven recesses with TPS reports and flair could be avoided altogether for months and months. Because in that time I'd be planning where I would live next. Denmark, Greece, Italy, Canada, the Yucatan, Wyoming, LA, Charleston, Prague, New Zealand, Budapest, and the holy grail of the homing beacon I call a travelling bone, a magical as-yet-named Baltic seaside villa where I could touch the northern lights at night. I'll get there eventually, just a bit slower than I might if raindrops were wishes.

 

[Oh_That_Guy]

I see no reason to leave the US. It's not perfect but it's closer to perfection than most. Not all but most. If I really absolutely had to move I'd probably go to one of the cold northern European countries like Sweden or Swissland or Pot Land or whatever the hell they call those places over there.
Seems like everyone is happy there. Probably all the legal weed.

 

[pensivepoet]

Maybe Ireland

 

[BucksMaster]

Maybe Ireland

North or South? They are somewhat different in lots of ways.

 

[snugglestruggle]

I'm thinking more of When and not Where in the world I'd like to live.

 

[pensivepoet]

North or South? They are somewhat different in lots of ways.

Wherever the best sweaters and cheapest pubs are.

 

[BucksMaster]

Wherever the best sweaters and cheapest pubs are.

They have different currencies,of course, so that will depend on the exchange rate at the point of time you moved there.

 

[Not Normal]

The country I was born in is fairly embarrassing since 2000... And other parts of out history as well. Its the place I'm from, and that's fine. I'd like to try to live in Canada or England. I'm too old to learn a new language, but Denmark really interests me. I know someone who emigrated there and has stayed and loves it.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Recidiva]

I don't think I could trade where I am right now. Living in the house where I grew up that my father built and my mother renovated. It's a beautiful spot on the earth with four even seasons. Violets in the grass in spring. Beautiful warm summers with animals in the yard, deer, squirrels, chipmunks, groundhogs, foxes...and bears. Fall is perfect for Halloween and winter is perfect for Christmas.

I've lived in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Florida and California. I've visited every US state except for Hawaii. I love my country and the people in it, and I extend that sense of loosely patriotic camaraderie to most people around the world, who know their country is flawed, but love their roots in it anyway.

Anthem, from "Chess" - A Russian contemplating defecting...resonates with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBlTUOL8WlY

"No man, no madness
Though their sad power may prevail
Can possess, conquer, my country's heart
They rise to fail
She is eternal
Long before nations' lines were drawn
When no flags flew, when no armies stood
My land was born

And you ask me why I love her
Through wars, death and despair
She is the constant, we who don't care
And you wonder will I leave her
I cross over borders but I'm still there now

How can I leave her?
Where would I start?
Let man's petty nations tear themselves apart
My land's only borders lie around my heart"

There are lots of places in the world I'd like to visit, but I feel less inclined to travel, having done so much of it in young adulthood, moving 11 times in so many years. Now I am enjoying deep roots.

My back yard a few weeks ago:

http://i.imgur.com/10RBNio.jpg?2

Plus. Bears.

http://i.imgur.com/OCs0t8H.jpg

Plus foxes.

Sometimes I look around through those back windows and think "I live in Narnia"

http://i.imgur.com/b0NnzG8.jpg

 

[doctor_insanus]

Canada. England. Iceland. Denmark. Sweden.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Recidiva]

I don't have deep roots. I live many miles from my 'ancestral' birth places, and my roots , while deep, are confusing and jumbled. I like that I have connections with lots of places, but it would also like to feel sense of 'home' more than I do. I was educated in at least five countries and three continents before I was double figures, until I started a boarding school: which was the most settled I was, school and university, until we bought this home. My family roots ....my knowledge of where I come from, and where I associate from my own time and connection, is strong. But where I feel 'home?' Is nowhere. For Gianbattista he feels different,from similar start. he is at home in at least three places.

I can make a home wherever I am, and that's a talent I got from moving around a lot. I know how to make a space my own, and hopefully lots of travel can grant that.

I kinda like that my idea of a great vacation is to stay home now.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

I am quite content where I am, but I would like to travel more. I do have some interest in relocating once my children have grown, but that won't be for a few years.

 

[thør]

I like where I life. I've traveled a bit and really haven't found anyplace that I would want to call home. Anchorage isn't a great city, but it has the necessities.

 

[Riles]

Comparatively, Canada is a pretty fantastic country to live in but if I could spent a month or two sailing the Greek islands or something similar I would gleefully do so.

 

[spacekowboy]

My family, my friends are all here. I'm not picking up and moving to another country. I have thought about moving out of state, however. It is Damn expensive to live in California but seeing as how I just bought a house here I will boot be moving any time soon.

 

[Recidiva]

My family, my friends are all here. I'm not picking up and moving to another country. I have thought about moving out of state, however. It is Damn expensive to live in California but seeing as how I just bought a house here I will boot be moving any time soon.

Have touchy!

And I heard boot in a Canadian accent.

 

[spacekowboy]

Fucking Christ.

I need a lit break and my glasses.

 

[warrior queen]

I was born in Austria, naturalised Australian at age 7, and grew up on a yacht (travelling around the world) from age 9 to early 20's.
I have been to many, many countries and lived longer-term - a year or more - in 7 of them.
I identify as a child of the planet.
It doesn't matter to me where I live, so long as I have the basics and some comfort.
For the last 6 yrs I have been in Tasmania and it feels just as much my home as any other place I have lived in the past......with gentler summers

 

[Lord Pmann]

Ireland or Norway.

 

[ryan8558]

is Carmen SanDiego?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1EIUP8tvbE