# Where do you want to live? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 21, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289 "2015-02-21T21:17:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/1 "2015-02-21T21:17:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/2 "2015-02-21T21:21:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/3 "2015-02-21T21:49:31Z")
**TruCelt** , [this](http://www.tienchiu.com/wp-content/gallery/dunhuang/camel_parking_lot.jpg) looks nothing like you describe. I’d like to live in [Aptos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptos,_California) again. ---
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/4 "2015-02-21T22:28:54Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/5 "2015-02-21T22:32:29Z")
London, or Islay. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/6 "2015-02-21T23:29:26Z")
Somewhere around Edwardsville PA. Berwick maybe, Shickshinny for sure. Not Kingston though – too highfaluting for my tastes. ---
**Author:** ![yawuntz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a5b964/32.png) [@yawuntz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yawuntz)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/7 "2015-02-21T23:33:15Z")
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 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/8 "2015-02-21T23:53:34Z")
> [@Ayatollah Yawuntz](#): > > 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. . ---
**Author:** ![yawuntz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a5b964/32.png) [@yawuntz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yawuntz)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/9 "2015-02-21T23:59:38Z")
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 . > **[Scientist predicts mass exodus of climate change refugees to Pacific Northwest...](https://globalnews.ca/news/1750950/scientist-predicts-mass-exodus-of-climate-change-refugees-to-pacific-northwest/)** > > British Columbians, brace yourselves for a possible mass migration of Californians to our coastline. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/10 "2015-02-22T00:02:58Z")
If money was no object, I think I’d like living in the Bay Area. That or central america. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/11 "2015-02-22T00:30:51Z")
A warm place with no memory. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/12 "2015-02-22T00:33:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/13 "2015-02-22T01:33:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/14 "2015-02-22T01:41:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CaptainAmerica\_1987](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@CaptainAmerica\_1987](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptainAmerica_1987)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/15 "2015-02-22T01:46:42Z")
The planet Mars and yes I mean that. ---
**Author:** ![tuesdayweld](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@tuesdayweld](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tuesdayweld)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/16 "2015-02-22T01:47:28Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > A warm place with no memory. Sounds perfect. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/17 "2015-02-22T02:05:18Z")
> [@tuesdayweld](#): > > Sounds perfect. Then I have just the place for you. > **[Zihuatanejo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zihuatanejo)** > > Zihuatanejo (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}Spanish pronunciation: \[siwataˈnexo\]), and/or Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, is the fourth largest city in the Mexican state of Guerrero. It was known by 18th-century English mariners as Chequetan and/or Seguataneo. Politically the city belongs to the municipality of Zihuatanejo de Azueta in the w [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XLZEdhU-gGs/maxresdefault.jpg "The Shawshank Redemption - Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLZEdhU-gGs) ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/18 "2015-02-22T02:11:31Z")
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. > [@CaptainAmerica\_1987](#): > > The planet Mars and yes I mean that. so you’re ok with not living very long? ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/19 "2015-02-22T02:19:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CaptainAmerica\_1987](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@CaptainAmerica\_1987](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptainAmerica_1987)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289/20 "2015-02-22T02:33:46Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > so you’re ok with not living very long? Why do say that? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-want-to-live/713289.md?page=2)