The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk.
Tertius in Heinlein’s Time Enough For Love. Rejuvenation technology, interstellar travel, the chance to meet Tamara… 
Actually I’m pretty sure ME and Firefly are set in the same universe.
Ummm…cite?
I want to change mine to the DC universe.
Sure I wouldn’t have any super powers, but I could make a fortune selling Super Hero secret identities to the tabloids.
Then I could hire a top scientist to give me super powers.
And, I’d be the only left with a seret ID because I sold out all the others.
Some of my choices, in order :
The Culture.
The 5th Imperium. Multicentury lifespans, massive cybernetic augmentation, instant interstellar teleporters, solar system wide energy shields, warships bigger than the Moon - lots of cool stuff. Plus, they’re in the middle of upgrading and reorganizing human society, so I’d just step in line with everyone else for bioenhancement and remedial education, instead of just being unemployable. By preference, I’d arrive after the Siege of Earth, however.
ST : NG era Federation. Sort of the poor man’s Culture.
I’m already in one, because I live in Cleveland OH and that’s where the new hellmouth opened up in the Buffy-verse . :eek:
Well, Firefly is practically the only space-opera verse you can imagine as being the future of the real world (they actually respect physics in their space battles! Amazing!), and, as we all know, Middle-Earth was the Europe of pre-Abrahamic times…so they’re both our world.
:wally
Either the Buffy-Verse or Firefly verse. The Buffy one I can easily be another Xander (or, more likey, Andrew, what with the giant nerdiness and all. Though I might add that there would be no question as to my sexuality.)
the Buffy-Verse has the nice feature of being set in the now, so no learning curve with technology, and if i get tired of vamps and demons, just move into a rural area with no hellmouth nearby and I’ll be ok it seems.
The Firefly verse has a lot of high tech stuf I’d no nothing about, but with Kaylee as a teacher, I’d be MORE than eager to learn all about it. 
Star Trek or Known Space. SF settings where most of our current problems have been overcome but there’s still enough things going on to keep things interesting.
Varley’s Eight Worlds would be livable. There’s an underlying theme of quiet despair but things are comfortable for the moment.
I wouldn’t want to live in the DC or Marvel universe. There’s always some supervillain or galactic evil being or alien starfleet trying to destroy all life or do something bad. Sure the superheroes have always won in the past, but their luck’s only got to fail once and then you’re stuck in a Brian Michael Bendis or Mark Millar universe.
Larry Niven’s ‘Golden Age’.
Jolly peaceful, so I could enjoy myself being nerdy.
Firefly’s 'verse, as they say, would be cool, or Bujold’s Vorkosigan’s world. But probably from Beta or Earth, not Barrayar.
Much as I love Firefly and Serenity, I think I’d probably rather not actually live in a dystopian society where a corrupt and authoritarian government rules the central planets, and people on the outer planets are dominated to the point of peonage by ruthless robber barons, and occasionally eaten alive by cannibalistic zombie-like savages.
I’ll go with silenus and pick Tertius (or some similarly pleasant world from Heinleins’ Future Universe series after both interstellar travel and life-extension technology for non-Howard Family members have been perfected), or “Star Trek”. Beta Colony or some other high tech, wealthy, politically and socially open planet in Bujold’s universe would also be good.
Grim, heroic, death-defying conflict is fun to read about and/or watch; but not so much to actually live through.
Lets meet at the Prancing Pony. I’ll be looking for work as a carpenter / mechanic / smith. You’ll have to live in Bree also. Us big folks aren’t allowed to live in the Shire.
Alternate is I would live in the Star Trek Universe on Earth and look into Adult re-training as I doubt my skills would be marketable.
Jim (check my location)
Oh, okay! Awesome.
I’m thirding or fourthing that vote.
Fifthing it. (Alternately, the Discworld might be fun to live in. Or I could work in the restaurant at the end of the universe…)
Change your Username to Syndrome, then. :rolleyes:
She looks at her 43 year collection of Legion of Super-Hero comics…
Star Trek’s Voyager would be my second choice.
Rick Cook had a series of books where a software geek was transported to a world of magic - and created a magic compiler. As a software geek, that is the way to go if I have to go to another universe. Note that I haven’t broken the rules, in this universe magic works for software geeks.