Places That You Would Live In Again In A Flash

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Denver has a wonderful climate. It’s mostly sunny and not too humid. There are cool days in the summer, and warm days in the winter. It gets a decent amount of snow, but it usually melts off quickly so you don’t have ice on the streets all winter.

It has a wonderful zoo, a very good science museum, a thriving restaurant culture, and (though I don’t do this as much as I used to) an excellent nightlife/music club scene. It’s not all sports bars here, except when the Broncos are on TV.

Speaking of sports, Coors Field is one of the best baseball stadiums in the country, and every now and then the team makes themselves worthy of it. It also has an NHL team, what passes for an NBA team, major league soccer and lacrosse, and myriad amateur and recreational athletic opportunities.

There are interesting things to see and do all up and down the front range, from Fort Collins to Trinidad. And last but by no means least, the mountains are right there. For a day trip, a weekend excursion, or a week of random wandering , the scenery and small towns are unsurpassed. The mountains never pall on me.

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Hate snow, loved the movie.

San Francisco. Grew up in the city, moved to Orange County (ok, but it’s not my city), then moved back to SF about 4 years ago (yea!). Now, I expect to move within the next 6 months to the East Bay or the Peninsula. I’m dreading the move already even though it’s a matter of 10 miles.

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Seattle. Love that city.

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Treasure Island, in the San Francisco Bay. It was absolutely beautiful, quiet and just wonderful. Well apart from the lack of any facilities, the cordoned off areas due to environmental waste and the waiver you have to sign saying you know you’re pretty much screwed in the event of an earthquake and…well the subtle hints from the real estate company to not drink the water. Other than that! GORGEOUS place to live and even given all that I would move back there in a heartbeat if I could afford it.

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And I’m eager to get the heck out of Ithaca!

I’d move back to the greater Seattle area. Rarely too hot, rarely too cold. Great hiking in the mountains, great bike trails, the Sound, great restaurants, bars, microbreweries, easy access to the ocean and wilderness, great neighborhoods, books, cultural activities, mycology, Portland and Vancouver close by, Victoria not so far away…

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Anywhere on the “Front Range” from Ft. Collins to Pueblo.

Assuming I had the wherewithal, any of Wiesbaden/Mainz, Wurzburg, Schweinfurt, Munich, Bamberg, Bad Kreuznach, or Heidelberg.

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I did a brief stint in Seattle, only four months. I loved the area, and wouldn’t hesitate to go back if circumstances worked out that way.

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I lived in SLO for a few months once. Very nice place, but you better have some money!

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I once spent a year in Paris, and would happily spend many more.

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If anybody has a line on a good-paying job in Waukesha or Pewaukee, drop me a line.

I’d move in a shot.

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ExTank, please tell me what you like about Bad Kreuznach :S Mainz, ok…but Bad Kreuznach? I must have missed the awesome when I was there!

For me, Rio! No place on earth can beat Rio. I lived in a house on a hill with a huge balcony full of comfy chairs & hammocks that overlooked the city. Warm nights were full of music and dancing, days were at the beech (well, that’s what it seems like now anyway) and everybody, everybody is so NICE! Sometimes I wake up and just wonder what on earth I’m doing in the UK.

Second on the list is the jungle of Brazil… or maybe that one is first, not sure…

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Well, I lived in one place or another in SLO County from 1989 until 2003, always in rural areas outside of the cities – most of the time in a guest house on a 50-acre ranch in the North County area near Paso Robles. It wasn’t expensive at all (at least not then), but prices were getting driven up by retirees moving in from Los Angeles. I paid $450/month for the guest house on the ranch, and it was quite a mansion for a guest house! (I’ve got pics of that too, if I can find them.) The owner had many horses, cows (and a bull), and dogs so I had lots of animals to pet. I lived there 10 years, and the owner never raised the rent on me.

The trailer was on a 120-acre spread in the mountains, and I paid $350/month. How affordable is THAT? As you can see in the pics, there was nary another human structure within sight. There too, the owner never raised the rent while I was there.

Living in any of the cities there might have been pricier, but still, I thought the whole county was generally much cheaper than any of the really big places (like L. A. area of S. F. Bay area), where $800-$1000 gets you a broom closet you can call your own!

HEY ALICE! (Or anyone who’s reading this!) Wouldn’t you love to live in an area like that again? How about let’s you and me pack our bags and find a place like that in rural SLO County again! Maybe we could find an 800-1000 sq. ft. double-wide mobile to rent in some back-country area for, say, about $800-$1000/mo. – we could afford to live like that by sharing the rent, and have enough room so we could each have some private space each to ourselves. Or if not SLO County, then ANYWHERE similar to those pictures I posted.

I think I wouldn’t mind trying to share a place with someone, in order to be able to afford living like that. No, I’m not looking for a partner or a wife or a lover or a LTR or anything like that. Just a quiet rural back-country place to live, and someone sufficiently compatible to share living with without getting too much on each other’s nerves, to share the rent (and perhaps other general living expenses) so it’s affordable. Doesn’t necessarily have to be SLO County – I think I’d like any place in Northern California (or perhaps Oregon) where the country is beautiful and the weather is mild, and maybe the owner would have a ranch with horses and dogs around, away from any big cities.

The above is not a serious suggestion. Wait a minute. Or is it? Maybe? Okay, semi-serious? Anybody else, reading this thread, who could get semi-serious about that? or serious? Think about it? Someone who would do anything (almost) to live in a beautiful rural setting like that? Alice? Anyone?

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This thread has made me realize I haven’t lived anywhere that I really liked.

Even the places I’ve visited that I liked had something about them that made me not consider living there. In short, the warm places either have unpleasant politics (Arizona) and the interesting places (Boston, New York, California) are all too expensive.

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For me it’s Independence, OH. It’s a suburb about 15 minutes south of downtown Cleveland. LOVED it. The weather was perfect. Good amount of snow in winter, gorgeous spring with flowers and bunnies, warm summers with an awesome public pool that was cheap to join for the season (and had high dives and a water slide), colorful autumns. We had deer in our yard almost every day. There was a thriving arts scene in Cleveland. Despite being so close to both Cleveland and two major interstates, we never had to lock our doors, it was that safe in our neighborhood. I would move back in a heartbeat.

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What wasn’t there to like? As most middling-small German cities, it was small enough to get around on foot, picturesque, shops, cafes, restaurants…

In the end, none of my selections would be particularly “awesome” to most people. I’m not “selling” any of those places to anyone else as the mostest “awesome” places to live.

They are just places I have been, for some time in each, and would not have a problem living in again. YMMV.

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Larsen Bay, Alaska.

I would really want to be younger and in better shape to do it again, though. Best/worst 5 years of my life!

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I lived in or around NYC for 25 years, from the age of 24 to 49. Then I relocated back to the Cleveland area (where I am from) to help take care of my aging parents. I had every intention of moving back to New York when I was no longer needed here. Well, both parents are gone now and I’m still here. And so is my partner.

New York can be a wonderful place to live if you’re young or rich. I am neither.

Besides, I have a whole house full of belongings now, including an art studio. There’s no way I can go back to living in a 1-bedroom apartment.

But there are so many things I miss about New York. If I could go back in time, I would stay there. There were alternatives my parents could have done, rather than have me relocate.

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Ha, fair enough ExTank :slight_smile: I was just curious, as I couldn’t really imagine what would be so attractive about the place that you’d want to live there. Thought maybe I’d missed out when I was there… The countryside around was nice I remember. I think I didn’t really like the architecture outside the old centre. (Sorry if this was a hijack, thought maybe we could also discuss what we liked about places?)

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Bend, Oregon. It’s a smallish town in the middle of central Oregon, up in the high desert. Fantastic weather, if a bit on the dry and dusty side. Short, hot summers- but it can still get down to below freezing at night. So much outdoorsy stuff to do- biking, hiking, camping, hunting, skiing, snowboarding, kayaking, and all of that within thirty minutes of town.

I lived there for about four years, and I’ve really regretted moving away. My wife and I are talking about retiring there eventually.

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Indianapolis. I did 20 years there before moving to Virginia.

Eastern North Carolina. I loved the hermit-like existence. It’s a great place to raise kids, or have grandkids come for a long stay, but if you’re hunting for an SO, the pickings are kinda slim.