Although I live in Santa Cruz, my real home is atop a hill outside Grass Valley. The view is spectacular, on a clear day you can see from Sacramento to Oroville from certain places.
I want to move in with Ginger. Wow, did you guys click on that picture?
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Actually it’s an anglicised form of Dún Eideann which is the Gaelic name for Edinburgh.
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I live in Dublin, Ireland. It’s OK.
Boston is a lovely city.
beautiful, crotchety old baseball park
Old Ironsides, the USS Constitution, and the Bunker Hill Battle Memorial
Ok, Kyla. But you have to sleep on the couch.
I live in London. It’s okay.
I still plan to emigrate to Sydney, though, so I’d agree with TheLoadedDog. One day in the not-too-distant future I’ll be soaking up the Australian sun again.
<sigh> That’s what I get for trusting a Dunedin tourism website. 
Ginger is almost right, but she is fixating on the mountains… she is missing places like the Whaleback, Cypress Hills prairie and badlands. Mountains are just so showy… you need to visit the prairies to appreciate how gorgeous this part of the world is… other places may be pretty (and I don’t want to 'dis what other Dopers find attractive) but they lack the sheer scale.
PS, I hope my links actually work for once…
I’m quite sure this is the best spot in Canada, and I’d put up an arguement for the rest of the world too. Within a day’s drive, we have real desert, huge lakes and the Rocky Mountians. Closer to home, an hour will get you to the North Shore Mountians, the Fraser River (walkable from my house) Stanley Park, the Pacific Ocean and downtown Vancouver. There are a number of lakes and smaller rivers in the area too. I was born here and I’m not budging!
Here’s why the Monterey-Big Sure area is spectacular. A short photo tour:
- the waterfall that falls into the sea at Julia Pfeiffer burns park. The fall (McWay fall is the only major fall (8 stories high) in California that falls into the sea.
- The redwoods and Coast range forest
- the cliffs along the coast
Point Lobos
- The ancient cypresses (one of two small, restricted locations where the Monterey Cypress is native)
- China cove, My favorite beach in the reserve.
- The cliffs meeting the water.
Monterey
- Cannery row
- the city itself
- The historical buildings: Custom house, the many adobes
- Colton hall, where the state’s first constitution was signed
Hey we never said they were 100% accurate (not even 80% :D). I live in that fine city and I have to say that it is a great place to live :). If you ever get the chance the trip out to Lanach Castle its really an amazing drive, only thing is just keep going when you reach the turn-off and the scenery gets even better
Actually, Ginger is right, although “the most beautiful place in the World” is not just one place. I should know. I lived near The Canadian Rockies for years.
My country sucks. I live in america.
You mean the one to her website? Yeah, she is hot and I wouldn’t mind moving in with her. 
Please tell me you’re joking…
I live in Seoul… yesterday and the day before it was so smoggy that you could barely see across the street! (only a very slight exaggeration!). Long live the US!!!
Why I love where I live…
*We’ve got one end of the Great Ocean Road just down the road.
*Whales come to Logans Beach to calve every year, and you can get a really close look at them.
*I can drive 10 minutes and be at Killarney, which has a lovely, secluded beach - I’ve walked there at sunset after a hot day, and the only footprints on the beach have been mine and a few seagulls’.
*We have some damn fine restaurants (and the Melbourne Herald Sun says our local hamburger joint, Kermonds, makes the best hamburgers in Australia, if you want something a little more casual).
*Timboon Farmhouse Cheese is just up the road.
*Rush hour lasts around five minutes.
Sometimes it can be hard to see what is special about a place until you have reference for comparison.
I’ve only had the chance to visit the US a few times; fleeting visits for the most part, though I did get to live there for a few months last year. So… from the perspective of an ignorant foreigner here’s some things I found gorgeous/appealing/fascinating/fun in the US:
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[li]Driving through the rolling hills of Wisconsin, from Kenosha through to Lake Geneva, visiting * Old World Wisconsin* en route. The lake itself was stunning on a hot August day, and I didn’t believe my local guides when they told me it freezes over in winter.[/li][li]The green copper roofs of Milwaukee’s gothic-styled buildings.[/li][li]Heading down the I-5 from Vancouver to Portland through Washington state. The geography of such as scale, such broad brush-strokes, and looking so unlike home.[/li][li]Mount. St. Helens. Words fail me. Twenty years on and still an alien landscape.[/li][li] Denver. I have to get back there are have a chance to really look around. I was only there long enough to know that it should have been longer.[/li][li]Chicago! The museums, the lake… first time I saw Lake Michigan was flying from Chicago to Milwaukee at night… lights blazing to the left, just darkness to the right. It would have been easy to believe this was the coast and that the lake was an ocean.[/li][li]Stopping on the way from Davenport to Des Moines in Iowa to photograph genuine red barns. Getting directions mixed up, resulting in being lost amongst vast fields of corn.[/li][li]Galena, Illinois. That is a truly beautiful town.[/li][/ul]
Or, if your interests don’t run to geography:
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[li]Watching the local Ice Hockey team on Saturdays, for little more than the price of a movie ticket. Go Mallards! :)[/li][li]Halloween parade in Davenport, IA. So strange… just like a Santa parade, but with more ghouls and without the happy little elves. Shops filled with more candy than I have ever seen before, aisle after aisle of chocolate.[/li][li]Gaming conventions with 10,000 attendees.[/li][li]Malls you can get lost in… stores you can get lost in![/li][li]Consumer goods at prices… well… lets just say a bit cheaper than NZ.[/li][li]Paperbacks at $6-8 each. (Instead of $22)[/li][li]A rental car that was a barge with wheels. (Reminder to self: a Buick Park Avenue is not a compact.[/li][li]Freezing in the stands (high 20’s) watching a College football game with 60,000 people! (Do we get that many for national test matches?!)[/li][/ul]
I’m sure I could go on… but the point is, there are good points to be found almost anywhere. Truth be told, I wasn’t too thrilled last year when I found out I was going to be in Davenport for several months (errr… Hi, Kricket. :)), but in the end I had a great time, thoroughly enjoyed the area and could happily have stayed longer.
I love NZ, and I love being home… but I also miss the US (and Canada…) and hope I’ll get the chance to live there again.
Ok, so maybe I’m mistaken, but my town sucks, at th very least. And I like England better.
Well that’s my neck of the woods as well…I hope you managed to scarf some Whitey’s while you were here
What I like about my area is the proximity to other areas…The town is not fantastic scenery wise (although it has its moments)…but it is a relatively short hop to Wisconsin for the foliage…Chicago or St Louis for the culture…Iowa City for culture and college sports etc…
And as already mentioned…the cost of living is not too shabby.