Well, I’ll be pipped! That’s exactly where I want to live! A world where major crime consists of stealing a policeman’s helmet on Boat Night, where one can always drop into Market Snodsbury for a meal cooked by Anatole if somebody hasn’t stolen him, where only a cow-creamer and a ukelele will make my life complete. Bally nonsense.
I say! Touch of strong language old girl. Steady on.
Not impossible; it just won’t be his own excrement.
Meanwhile, I’m avoiding Hades and Crematoria from Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick, respectively.
Barsoom’s low gravity might be neat for a while, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
I’d like to say I’d miss you guys…but I don’t like to lie.
Okay, so it’s the very least bad fictional place to live in. But nobody can tell the truth*, everybody is bullying or being bullied by somebody, all of the women are either idiots or manipulative shrews, nobody seems to contribute anything to society, no one would dream or working, some people are in debt up to their eyeballs, and the happiest day of your life is when an aged relative stiffs it and leaves you everything.
Oh, and many if not most of the people you know are inbred morons (with money).
Gahhh! I’d run for my life.
But the cars are gorgeous.
*I mean, really. What’s the worst that could happen if Bertie simply said, “Sorry, old thing. Bit of a misunderstanding. Not going to marry you, you see? It’s as simple as that. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to the links,” or something.
I’d just get a job writing for Milady’s Boudoir and marry Bingo Little.
The worst thing that ever happens to anybody there is the threat (never carried out) of a beating.
Unless you really think you’ve got what it takes to be the Humongous (or Auntie Entity), I’d give the world of Mad Max/Road Warrior a miss.
Can I avoid *the Emberverse *in the 20-30 years after the Change? I have no confidence in my ability to survive without modern technology!
Not only that, but even a complete wastrel with no money and no income can live comfortably by inviting himself to the homes of acquaintances he barely knows for as much as a fortnight at a time.
See, I was brought up that if you have to stop at a fast-food place to use the restroom, you are morally obligated to buy something. So I think I would be very uncomfortable just sponging off old college chums that way.
…On the other hand, if I were brought up with that kind of money to burn, it (money, that is) probably wouldn’t mean anything to me, so sponging would be no problem at all. Hmmm.
But these people have money and education and tact and manners and honor and all that rot, and yet they are constantly stepping on one another, inviting themselves over, demanding somebody do something for them or lie on their behalf – arggh!
But they all have servants upon whom the sponging devolves. It’s easy to invite someone to spend the night when it’s Madge who has to put the sheets on the bed and Jeeves to open the champagne and make the hangover cure in the morning and Osgood to brush the lint off the dinner jacket.
Add to the places to avoid list: Bad Street, Atlanta, GA.
But rather than worry about avoiding so many places, why not just set the destination as one of the pleasure planets in the ST: TNG universe and be done with it?
I don’t need a cutesy nickname to watch My Little Pony–I’m a girl!
Oak, obviously I would have [del]given[/del] lent you a continua buggy of your own and told you to amuse yourself (and to come save my ass when I got in trouble).
That said, I think you’re wrong about the Trek pleasure planets. Unlike Earth, Vulcan, & Betazed, those places require money. (Okay, credits, but it’s the same thing.) Also, the farther you are from Earth, the more likely weird stuff is to happen – particularly if it’s a place where a starship is likely to stop for shore leave.
Best stay on Earth & vacation on Risa.
Minas Morgul. Even without the Nine.
True that. Also the New New New etc. York from “Gridlock.”
In my travels as an Intergalactic Gladiator, I’ve once visited Apokolips. I have no desire to return there.
Dragon’s Egg is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t live there. For long.