# Places That You Would Live In Again In A Flash
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 20, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509 "2011-11-20T02:15:10Z")
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/1 "2011-11-20T02:15:10Z")
So as a complement to **OpalCat** ’s thread [It’s nice to visit but I could never live there again](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=631754), I thought I’d start the opposite thread. What are some places that you’ve lived in before, and have moved away from, but loved and would live in again if you got the chance?
Mine is Asheville, NC. My dad’s family is from there and we lived there off and on when I was a kid, and then I lived there as an adult for a couple of years. It’s sad to say that I didn’t appreciate it like I should have when I lived there, but now I yearn for it. Asheville is an awesome little city, just off the Blue Ridge Parkway, smack in the mountains, and is at the same time hillbilly, artsy-fartsy new age, country, city, sophisticated, and redneck. Lately I’ve been conjuring up the feeling that occurs when you’re on the Parkway, just after a summer rainshower, when the sun comes back out. Ahh, it’s so nice there. I miss it tremendously, and I do plan on moving back- I’ve been trying to for about a year, so one day soon I will.
What’s yours?
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### Author:  [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/2 "2011-11-20T02:22:25Z")
I would go back to Los Angeles in a flash. I only live in Austin because that’s where my husband wants to live. If the time comes that I have no husband I will move back to L.A. the next day.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/3 "2011-11-20T02:28:59Z")
> [@kayT](#):
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> I would go back to Los Angeles in a flash. I only live in Austin because that’s where my husband wants to live. If the time comes that I have no husband I will move back to L.A. the next day.
I’m just curious, because I always think that I would hate L.A.- what do you like about it?
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### Author:  [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/4 "2011-11-20T02:30:18Z")
San Diego, CA. Right now I am wondering why I ever left…
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/5 "2011-11-20T02:34:10Z")
> [@Skara\_Brae](#):
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> San Diego, CA. Right now I am wondering why I ever left…
Now San Diego, I think I would love. Of course, I’d need 14 roommates and I’d still be living in a cardboard box, but still… it’s San Diego.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/6 "2011-11-20T02:37:52Z")
Waukesha Wisconsin.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/7 "2011-11-20T02:38:56Z")
Ithaca, NY. Like I said in the other thread, it’s an 11 out of 13 in my criteria. No other place is even better than a 9. Houses are even not very expensive, too (it’s the property tax that kills ya!)
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/8 "2011-11-20T02:50:39Z")
Grandfather’s summer cottage, Silver Lake, Perry NY. 9 acres, 600 feet of lakefront, sad remains of a small 9 tree apple orchard.
Family winter home, 108 N Main St, also Perry NY.
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Friends flat that I spent a month at back in 2003 in Gaertringen Germany. [Or a similar space same town.]
St Malo, France.
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### Author:  [@JimmyFlair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyFlair)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/9 "2011-11-20T02:59:03Z")
Alameda, CA. We lived there for two years, and even though I knew that our time was finite in the US (Visa related), I cried for weeks before I left and for MONTHS after coming back. It didn’t help that we left the sunny climes of California and moved to Northern Manitoba in the dead of winter.
I loved the quiet little island city sandwiched between two big cities and would pack up and move back there tomorrow.
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### Author:  [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/10 "2011-11-20T03:03:22Z")
I moved from Austin to Tucson about 10 years ago for a job. The job is great, but I so wish I would go back to Austin!
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/11 "2011-11-20T03:12:45Z")
Falmouth Massachusetts. Dad was stationed at Otis Air Force base for nine glorious years. We moved off base and got a house in Falmouth just before they sent him to Viet Nam.
Cape Cod is such a wonderful place to live. I learned to swim at the beaches there. Still miss the cranberry bogs, beaches and homes. Cape Cod style houses are a unique architecture. The one down side is the winter snow. But the Cape is naturally sheltered from the worst of Massachusetts cold weather.
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### Author:  [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/12 "2011-11-20T03:17:30Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#):
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> Waukesha Wisconsin.
This is another place where I have to ask: What do you miss about it? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/13 "2011-11-20T03:17:55Z")
If I could afford it - Boston area.
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### Author:  [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/14 "2011-11-20T03:19:35Z")
> [@lavenderviolet](#):
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> This is another place where I have to ask: What do you miss about it? 🙂
WHAAT? HOW DO YOU NOT LOVE WAUKESHA?!
No, seriously. I love Waukesha. My family is there.
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### Author:  [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/15 "2011-11-20T03:34:19Z")
Oak Island, North Carolina. I hated it at the time, but after over a decade in Chillicothe, Ohio, I’d set my own pubes on fire for a chance to live back there. It’s amazing what living in Redneckistan will do for your perspective.
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### Author:  [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/16 "2011-11-20T03:53:23Z")
Victoria, BC
It has the mildest climate in Canada.
It has all of the amenities of a really big city but not _so_ big that it takes forever to get anywhere or that parking is impossible.
It is a provincial capital and they keep it fairly clean and polished. Downtown is buzzing with activity and old buildings full of character are quaintly wrapped around the harbour.
Snow-capped mountain views across the Straight of Juan de Fuca into the US and the ocean is right there if you need it. Twice, I remember taking a ten-minute walk down to the shoreline and seeing whales playing right off shore. _Whales_.
Seattle and Vancouver aren’t too far away if you need a really big city.
Man, I miss Victoria.
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/17 "2011-11-20T03:59:29Z")
Camarillo, CA. It’s quiet, there are a ton of good restaurants, it’s not far to go anywhere I’d like to go.
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### Author:  [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/18 "2011-11-20T04:08:00Z")
Pittsburgh, PA. There is a reason so many polls rank it high on the list of most liveable cities.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/19 "2011-11-20T04:16:43Z")
Denver. And here I am again.
I keep going other places: Fort Collins, Dayton, Ottawa, St. Louis, yet somehow I always wind up back in the City and County of Denver, Colorado.
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### Author:  [@wellanuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wellanuff)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2011, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/places-that-you-would-live-in-again-in-a-flash/603509/20 "2011-11-20T04:17:52Z")
Tokyo. And if I could also be 22 and single again but still know what I have learned now and also still be in the present, well, that would be beyond golden.
It was the best five years of my life, but that is not a very high hurdle to clear. I could have made so much more of it, and had more fun, too.
It was a lot easier to move there as a college student than it would be to move there with a family of six.
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