# The best place to live **URL:** \ **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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DLurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@DLurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DLurker)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/41 "2003-01-18T22:35:44Z")
Well I guess aside from one post, everyone pretty much wants to live someone on this marble… ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/42 "2003-01-19T00:22:31Z")
Somewhere well above the Mason-Dixon line, with access to a good music scene. Someone mentioned Montreal (I’ll learn how to type with the accent mark _sometime_), and, from my limited experience there, it sounds like it might be a nice place for me. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/43 "2003-01-19T00:51:40Z")
Anywhere there isn’t bugs - I hate creepy crawlies. So where I live now is good for 6 months of the year. I could never live in a climate where there are bugs year round. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/44 "2003-01-19T01:19:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Muldoon III \* > \*\*I’d hate to live underground, that would mean I’d be dead. Get it?🆒 \*\* Not necessarily **Muldoon**. There is an opal-mining town in the north of South Australia (Coober Pedy) where most of the inhabitants live in ‘dug-outs’, or underground houses. They are delightfully cool in the searing desert heat, and while some are no more than just holes in the ground, others are quite palatial and boast every mod-con known. I personally think it would be lovely to have natural rock walls, but I don’t want to have to live in Coober Pedy to do so. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/45 "2003-01-19T05:59:19Z")
Ithaca New York is the greatest town on Earth, IMO, and I’ve been all over. Utne Reader’s Most Enlightened City in America, it’s beautiful all year round, has great access to art, music, film, theatre, great restaurants, access to the resources of an Ivy League university, and is centrally isolated. ::SIGH:: ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/46 "2003-01-19T06:44:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Ithaca New York is the greatest town on Earth, IMO, Speaking as someone who was born in Ithaca, I will fully endorse the fact that it is a very pretty… …However it is also a frozen hell in winter time, along with much of the rest of upstate ;). If you’re one of those bizarre freaks of nature that actually rejoices in such abominations as skiing and ice-skating, more power to ya :p. But it ain’t for me. Despite numerous flaws, I remain sold on my present environs. - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/47 "2003-01-19T06:44:42Z")
According to this [survey](http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/10/04/world.cities/), Melbourne,\* Australia is the best place in the world for expatriates to live. Vancouver, Canada comes in second place, and Perth, Australia third. I live in Perth, incidentally. 🆒 - Must. Resist. Urge. To make. Joke. About Victoria. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/48 "2003-01-19T09:28:50Z")
_We’eeeell_, I was going to refrain from boasting that Melbourne is considered one of the world’s most ‘liveable’ cities, but seeing as you’ve brung it up **Narrad** …😃 Melbourne rocks. And any Vic jokes **Nazza** will be met with the utter disdain they deserve…seeing as we are so cool, we can do that ya know… (Now if I could just manage to find an underground house in my wonderful hometown, I’d be coolly rockin’ too!! 😛 ) (Haven’t seen any Sydneysiders in this thread yet…does that mean they don’t reckon Sydders is all that grouse afterall??? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DLurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@DLurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DLurker)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/49 "2003-01-19T10:23:44Z")
Visited Perth in 83. Seemed like a very laid back city. Didn’t understand everything closing up on the weekends though… ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/50 "2003-01-19T10:55:25Z")
You visited Perth in 1983 **DLurker**? Was it even ‘discovered’ then??? (Hey, we Melburnians aint fussy about who we hang shit on…WA will do if the NSWelshpersons aren’t available…😃 ) ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/51 "2003-01-19T11:12:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kambuckta \* > **(Hey, we Melburnians aint fussy about who we hang shit on…** Judging from the colour of the Yarra, Melbore-nians are equally unfussy about WHERE they shit. 😉 **DLurker** , everything closes up so we can all go to the beach, of course. 🙂 More seriously, the strict regulation of shop trading hours in WA will FINALLY be phased out in the near future (thanks to pressure from the National Competition Council, not the State Government). ---
**Author:** ![DLurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@DLurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DLurker)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/52 "2003-01-19T11:19:31Z")
\*\* Narradv\*\* For a Marine on shore leave, it was bloddy hell trying to get drunk… Didn’t have much interest in going to the beach… Mostly becuase it was July. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![DLurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@DLurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DLurker)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902/53 "2003-01-19T11:20:35Z")
I have no idea where that \*\* v \*\* came from… I really should get these keys fixed… yeah that’s it. It’s the keys… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-place-to-live/147902.md?page=2)