I want to live in a cool, green rainforest with mountains and pine forests, and a vast, hot desert that is minutes from the Pacific Ocean and walking distance from the French Quarter.
Someplace with lots of lush vegetation, tall trees and a deep clear lake to swim in. The temperature should stay between 60 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit at all times. The rain should fall only after sundown, and by 8:00pm the moonlight should appear.
I want to live exactly where I live right now. Could someone please explain that to my husband? It was 8 degrees today and the crocuses are blooming. Toronto on the other hand…
London, or Islay.
Somewhere around Edwardsville PA. Berwick maybe, Shickshinny for sure. Not Kingston though – too highfaluting for my tastes.
Vancouver BC, for the “cool, green rainforest with mountains and pine forests,…minutes from the Pacific Ocean”. If this isn’t the most perfect place in the universe - it will do, until the most perfect place comes along 
I’m about 30 miles south of there. No desert nearby, and it’s a little farther than I want to walk to the French Quarter.
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It’s so beautiful. I remember reading something recently (but I can’t remember where) that this little slice of geography, the Pacific Northwest, is the most blessed place on the planet in terms of climate, present and future. And politics.
This must be it. No politics .
If money was no object, I think I’d like living in the Bay Area. That or central america.
A warm place with no memory.
Here, only with more rain and less crime. And also unlimited travel. I’d totally live in another country for a year–I’m not picky as to where–but I like here for a permanent situation.
I’d like to live in the land where
the bluebird sings by the lemonade springs
and the soda water fountains,
where a bum can stay till his very last day
and he won’t need any money.
Or, as second choice,
I’d like to live some place
where July and August cannot be too hot,
winter if forbidden till December
and exits March the second on the dot,
where the rain may only fall after sundown,
and by 8:00 a.m. the morning fog must disappear.
Pacific Northwest, also. We went to western Oregon last spring and it was magical. We’re working on a move to the Seattle area, hoping to do it this summer.
The planet Mars and yes I mean that.
Sounds perfect.
Then I have just the place for you.
I’m fine with metro Detroit. the bulk of the populace is clustered around southern Macomb county, southeast Oakland county, and northern Wayne county. And there’s a fairly hard cutoff between the metro area and the more rural regions; where I live it’s less than a 30 minute drive between the northern Detroit border and rural northern Macomb county. When I want to be around people in a “dense” downtown area, I can hang about the Woodward Corridor of Ferndale, Royal Oak, and Birmingham. when hunting season starts I can get afield in Richmond or Emmett without having to drive for hours. in the warm months I can walk to the end of my street and fish.
so you’re ok with not living very long?
I’m planning on retiring in a little less than 2 years. We have already started looking in the Port Townsend, Washington area. Small town, right on Puget Sound, miles from the big city but only a few hours away if we need anything. Plus that area only get half the rain of the Seattle area.
Why do say that?