Obviously a purely subjective topic but after talking with a very attractive lady who seemed to like the chilly clime of Chicago, I started to wonder where people envision as their perfect place to live.
For instance. after seeing the Brenner pass in Austria, I found mine… Not much city, few people, and lots of trees and mountains… Ahh perfection.
Just where do you want to live?
The best place to live?
Wherever says “home” to you. For me, it was 2300 miles from my birthplace.
YMMV
Actually, here is damn nice. There are many, many nice places to live, but to give you an answer: I would go live on Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
** kniz [** Looks like a good place but there are several hundred thousand people there… Plus I don’t speak Spanish… 
Or do you know of an hidden groto there?
Venice or Amsterdam. I think I have a thing for canals.
The Sandwich Islands also known as Hawaii, the 50th state.
I live in the 49th state Alaska. Both states are the best of both worlds!
combine the coast of california and a small mountain town in utah… awwwwww now that would be wonderful
** Ave Minerva ** Venice gets very humid and the canals sometimes don’t smell so great. At least the ones that don’t get much water circulation. Still a very beautiful place with an amazing amount of history.
** cadolphin ** I would like to hear more about a place like that.
Really like Carson City.
There’s just enough winter to call it winter. There are umerous ski areas in an hour or so’s drive.
Ten miles to the east and it’s all desert and public land. One mile to the west and we have the foothills of the Sierras. Lake Tahoe is thirty minutes away.
No income tax.
From May to November it almost never rains (a half inch is about average), just day after day of blue sky.
For big city needs Reno/Sparks is thirty minutes away. For bigger city stuff Sacramento is two hours. And four hours puts you in San Francisco.
Housing prices are getting higher, but we already have one and over the five years we’ve lived here the value of our home has risen faster than what we’re paying for it.
Yep, all in all, a fine place to live.
Camden, Maine – if you can live with the bitter cold and the black flies. I have seen objective reports that recommend Portland, Maine for its clean air, clean water, low crime, etc.
** SandyHook **. You paint a good picture for Carson City… Maybe could have listed that it isn’t in CA.
CA is just not my kind of place. Nothing personal…
For me, Coruscant. Or as close as we can get to a gargantuan, infrastructure-laden, steel-and-concrete covered, vertical, urban mess here on Earth. I want to live on the 320th floor of something.
** Achernar ** Not actually having ever been there, isn’t NY city about the same thing?
Yeah NYC is pretty good. I would be satisfied with there, but ideally, I’d want a place that’s NYC, only more so.
Fact is DLurker the Canary Islands are referred to as the European Caribbean. You will see loads of English there. The language is not a problem and since hardly anyone from the U.S. goes there, they think we are rather special. The climate is great, the scenery beautiful and food is out-of-this-world.
[sup]And beaches filled with topless women![/sup]
Noooo! I live in a small mountain town in Utah…you don’t want that. No no no no no no…
Canada.
But ofcourse I already live in it, the most wonderful place ever, a paradise, probably the best place to live in the entire universe.
There is a small working fishing village on the north coast of Devon that is the last word in beauty : No cars, really narrow cobbled streets, a maze of the most beautiful old-world cottages you ever saw. And perfect scenery all around.
When I saw it for the first time, it took my breath away. It makes you realise that cheap soulless modern architecture is the curse of our age.
I’d love to live there, but doubt I’ll ever be able to. The waiting list for cottages is generations long!
Alaska. dream…dream
A little bit closer to ‘home’ (and therefore slightly more likely ;)) southern Ireland.
Also, as with ** Reuben, ** Devon and Cornwall. It’s not so much the waiting list (family from Dawlish area - grin) it’s the * cost! If I get the chance though, that’s where I’ll be.
** kniz ** You say the beaches are top, err, I mean the scenery is beautiful? Well, you have peaked my Interest. Yeah Interest, that’s it… 