# If You Had To Move Away, Where Would You Move To? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 25, 2008, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-move-away-where-would-you-move-to/439057 "2008-02-25T08:30:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-move-away-where-would-you-move-to/439057/81 "2008-03-05T05:35:39Z")
Pittsburgh. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-move-away-where-would-you-move-to/439057/82 "2008-03-05T08:01:20Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] Apparently there is something not quite right with me. People _want_ to live someplace that’s warm? I get all the warm I can handle July and August, and while it may be a dry heat, it’s still heat. [/QUOTE] You’re not looking at it properly: They’re the weirdos, not us. 😉 1. If I could stay in NYS, I’d flip a coin, between Ithaca and the Albany area. If I had to get out of NYS, I’d try for Vermont, near Burlington - but not actually in the city, if I could avoid it. Though, without a car, I might have to choose city living. 2. For foreign lands… the answers vary. Part of me says that the Faroe Islands would be fun, but the cost of living there would probably be prohibitive. Scandinavia would also be fun. Chile might be good, too. At the very least I’ll be outside the band between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-move-away-where-would-you-move-to/439057/83 "2008-03-05T11:35:11Z")
**In Country:** As much as I am a lifer in Michigan Outside of the economy, weather, Lions and potholes, it’s awesome to live here. I’d probably keep it Northernly and give a go in **Vermont.** (never been there, just sounds nice. **Outside US** Northern Europe. Central Europe. Southern Europe. I’d just get some kind of caravan and live out of that. ---
**Author:** ![Lunar\_Saltlick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Lunar\_Saltlick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lunar_Saltlick)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-move-away-where-would-you-move-to/439057/84 "2008-03-05T13:51:52Z")
I currently live near Montreal, and in Canada I’d love to live in the Georgian Bay area, maybe somewhere on the peninsula, or on Quebec’s north shore, somewhere near Havre Saint-Pierre. But I just love hiking in the mountains, so I might wind up out west, and spend my days bagging peaks. I’ve lived in Toronto before, and Vancouver, and I could do that again, as long as I didn’t have to work. Outside the country, I’d split my time between Paris and San Fran, again with the idea that I don’t have to work. At times, however, I get a hankering for the desert. I could easily live a nomadic life on the edge of the Sahara, at least for a year or two, or hunker down for 20-hour nights in Iqaluit. Iqaluit gets a bit too much precipitation, but that’s OK…compared to Vancouver… ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-move-away-where-would-you-move-to/439057/85 "2008-03-05T14:15:19Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] I will make it a two-part question: If you had to move away from the city/town/area where you currently live but could go anywhere else: 1. Where would you move to in your home country? 2. Which country would you move to if you had to leave your own? (Feel free to explain why you chose the new locations, if you wish to share.) [/QUOTE] 3. Barcelona. 4. … assuming I can get the remote for the freaking a/c, Costa Rica (Guanacaste or Central Valley). Heat, I can live with. Wind, no problem. Rain, that’s ok. But the contrast between 38ºC outside and 18ºC inside makes me real sick real fast. Oh, and no cilantro on my food please, thank you! What do you mean why? Neither of those is a location where one would have to justify wanting to move, if you ask me, that’s why! There’s a bunch of places in the US I might have liked to live in, but the legalities involved are much more painful for me than moving to Costa Rica. Quite a few places in Canada I’d love to visit, but my idea of “bleeping cold” is theirs of “early summer”. Italy is full of Italians, given the similarities I’m not sure it counts as a different country except in terms of being legally able to call each other a foreigner. And I’d rather not move to a place where I don’t speak the local language. ---
**Author:** ![Contrary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@Contrary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrary)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-move-away-where-would-you-move-to/439057/86 "2008-03-05T14:30:29Z")
[QUOTE=Pixilated] home country move - Manhattan, KS nice little college town [/QUOTE] First I’m impressed you even know about the Little Apple. Second, why on earth would you choose Manhattan over Lawrence? I got my bachelor’s at KU and my master’s at KSU and I would pick Lawrence any day over Manhattan because Manhattan really truly is in the middle of nowhere. And you have to drive almost three hours to get to a real airport . . . ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-move-away-where-would-you-move-to/439057/87 "2008-03-05T14:34:34Z")
I’d go live in the sand on the Isle of Man, because I think I’d be happy there. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-move-away-where-would-you-move-to/439057/88 "2008-03-05T16:06:55Z")
1.) Seattle or Maine 2.) If I could get a job for an international company I’d love to move to Saigon. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-move-away-where-would-you-move-to/439057/89 "2008-03-05T16:26:05Z")
I used to rent a house(with some friends) on the waterfront in Bremerton, Washington. It had a beautiful view of the bay, the traffic was light and the neighborhood was quiet. The ferry dock was just a short walk away, so I could visit friends, shop, go to Pike Place Market or party and not have to worry about getting home. I’d go to some great science fiction conventions on a regular basis-Rustycon, Norwescon and the occasional Westercon, and drop by the SCA fighter practices. That’s where I’d go. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-move-away-where-would-you-move-to/439057/90 "2008-03-05T20:07:25Z")
1. Hawaii (miss the weather, flora/fauna and nice people, would probably get outdoors more there) 2. Japan (chance to get to know family/remaster language, cool stuff, a nice amount of wtf-ness to get acclimated with) ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-move-away-where-would-you-move-to/439057/91 "2008-03-05T20:16:14Z")
I had a dream last night about living in a little college district in Nashville, Tennessee…which happened to look exactly like Lemon Grove, California. How odd. Must’ve had this thread on my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-move-away-where-would-you-move-to/439057/92 "2008-03-05T23:10:14Z")
1. In the US: Montana or Wyoming. Somewhere that has trees, mountains, some form of water and a crapload of snow in the winter. 2. Out of US: Back home to Canada. The west coast of Vancouver Island would be ideal. I’d settle for Banff/Jasper though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-to-move-away-where-would-you-move-to/439057.md?page=4)