# The best place to live
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 11, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902 "2003-01-11T04:39:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@DLurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DLurker)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/1 "2003-01-11T04:39:40Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/2 "2003-01-11T05:34:51Z")
**The best place to live?**
Wherever says “home” to you. For me, it was 2300 miles from my birthplace.
YMMV
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### Author:  [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2003, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/3 "2003-01-11T09:29:20Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@DLurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DLurker)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/4 "2003-01-13T02:40:33Z")
\*\* 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?
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### Author:  [@Ave\_Minerva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ave_Minerva)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/5 "2003-01-13T03:06:12Z")
Venice or Amsterdam. I think I have a thing for canals.
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### Author:  [@yola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yola)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/6 "2003-01-13T04:23:21Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/7 "2003-01-13T04:33:42Z")
combine the coast of california and a small mountain town in utah… awwwwww now that would be wonderful 🙂
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### Author:  [@DLurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DLurker)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/8 "2003-01-13T04:42:37Z")
\*\* 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.
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### Author:  [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/9 "2003-01-13T05:07:25Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/10 "2003-01-13T05:43:22Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@DLurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DLurker)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/11 "2003-01-13T05:48:32Z")
\*\* 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…
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### Author:  [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/12 "2003-01-13T05:49:22Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@DLurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DLurker)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/13 "2003-01-13T05:58:21Z")
\*\* Achernar \*\* Not actually having ever been there, isn’t NY city about the same thing?
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### Author:  [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/14 "2003-01-13T06:23:50Z")
Yeah NYC is pretty good. I would be satisfied with there, but ideally, I’d want a place that’s NYC, only more so.
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### Author:  [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/15 "2003-01-13T06:59:39Z")
> [@](#):
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> _Originally posted by DLurker \*
> \*\*\*\* kniz [_\* Looks like a good place but there are several hundred thousand people there… Plus I don’t speak Spanish… 🙂
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> Or do you know of an hidden groto there? \*\*
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]
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### Author:  [@AfterAugust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AfterAugust)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/16 "2003-01-13T09:05:30Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by cadolphin \*
> \*\*combine the coast of california and a small mountain town in utah… awwwwww now that would be wonderful 🙂 \*\*
Noooo! I live in a small mountain town in Utah…you don’t want that. No no no no no no…
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### Author:  [@BrightEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightEyes)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/17 "2003-01-13T11:15:35Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Reuben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reuben)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/18 "2003-01-13T12:31:32Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@odd-socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/odd-socks)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/19 "2003-01-13T13:34:14Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@DLurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DLurker)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/20 "2003-01-13T14:43:48Z")
\*\* 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… 😃
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