# Where would you live on "Earth-2"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 21, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356 "2006-11-21T23:13:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/1 "2006-11-21T23:13:50Z")
Inspired by [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=395452), and hopefully not too derivative… There’s a people-less identical Earth on the other side of the Sun. Animals run happy and free, and you have first dibs on where to live. Where’s you first pick, geographically? Feel free to elaborate as to what you take, if you like. ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/2 "2006-11-22T00:17:48Z")
[QUOTE=Love Rhombus] Inspired by [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=395452), and hopefully not too derivative… There’s a people-less identical Earth on the other side of the Sun. Animals run happy and free, and you have first dibs on where to live. Where’s you first pick, geographically? Feel free to elaborate as to what you take, if you like. [/QUOTE] The Mediterranean. Most hospitable climate I’ve ever been to. But really, any pristine wilderness, besides harsh desert or arctic tundra, is worth the trip. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/3 "2006-11-22T00:29:25Z")
Orange County, CA, if I had a portable desalination plant (or some other way of getting fresh water.) Otherwise, the site of Johannesburg. Not too hot, not too cold. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/4 "2006-11-22T00:43:16Z")
First I’d want to know a little more about those animals. If this planet is identical to Earth except that _H. sapiens_ never evolved there, then probably there never was a [Pleistocene extinction event](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_extinction_event) (causes debated, but anthropogenic is most likely). So you’ve got sabretooths, cave bears, carnivorous quadrupedal kangaroos, and a lot of other potentially dangerous mammalian megafauna who have no fear of humans because they’ve never seen one . . . ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/5 "2006-11-22T00:50:46Z")
This is true, Brainy (can I call you Brainy?), except that if there was the event you speak of, the “new” animals wouldn’t be scared of us either. Not much of a choice, you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/6 "2006-11-22T00:55:27Z")
Oooh! Oooh! Can I have Italy? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/7 "2006-11-22T01:30:30Z")
Flagstaff. With a nice view. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/8 "2006-11-22T01:43:42Z")
Manhattan. I don’t really care about that piece of land myself but at some point, a group of rich New Yorkers are going to get shipped over and then get homesick. I will be 10 times more rich as Donald Trump on this version of earth. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/9 "2006-11-22T03:58:45Z")
[QUOTE=Love Rhombus] This is true, Brainy (can I call you Brainy?), except that if there was the event you speak of, the “new” animals wouldn’t be scared of us either. Not much of a choice, you ask me. [/QUOTE] 😕 Yes, you may, but what are these “new” animals? If you mean the “old” animals . . . those that, on our Earth, went extinct in the Pleistocene . . . well, that was **my** point. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/10 "2006-11-22T04:00:20Z")
Or perhaps by the “new” animals you mean those that evolved **since** the Pleistocene . . . well, most of those **are** afraid of humans (for very good reasons), as you’ll find out if you take a walk in the woods. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/11 "2006-11-22T04:41:24Z")
I’d agree that somewhere in the Med would be best. You’ve gotta have a nice climate, with with few natural disasters. California’s nice but has easrthquakes, so that’s out. Say, the south of France. Great climate, few disasters. Not a lot of poisonous animals, either. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/12 "2006-11-22T06:47:55Z")
Just to clarify…is this a world where there were never any people, or a world where all the people are _dead?_ (Plague, or war, or everyone decidede that being a “-2” world was too lame to live with, so they all offed themselves, whatever.) If it’s the latter, there might be some infrastructure (or at least some good ruins) left. But, anyway…I’d probably pick southern Marin county, California. One of the most beautiful places on Earth, and colonizing a perverse, lifeless version of Earth is probably the only chance I’m ever going to have to make a nice home, there. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/13 "2006-11-22T06:56:36Z")
[QUOTE=Dragwyr] Oooh! Oooh! Can I have Italy? [/QUOTE] Tuscany’s mine. Do what you want with the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/14 "2006-11-22T09:18:39Z")
New Zealand, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/15 "2006-11-22T09:23:08Z")
I’d stay right here in L.A. Ah, sweet beautiful sunny L.A. - with no people! What a concept. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/16 "2006-11-22T13:37:29Z")
Great Britain, near where London ought to be. I’d fish for trout, in the River Fleet. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/17 "2006-11-22T13:45:37Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Great Britain, near where London ought to be. I’d fish for trout, in the River Fleet. [/QUOTE] Watch out for bears and wolves! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/18 "2006-11-22T13:46:43Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Watch out for bears and wolves! [/QUOTE] And you watch out for Moa & Giant marsupial predators! ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/19 "2006-11-22T13:59:17Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] Manhattan. I don’t really care about that piece of land myself but at some point, a group of rich New Yorkers are going to get shipped over and then get homesick. I will be 10 times more rich as Donald Trump on this version of earth. [/QUOTE] Damn, I didn’t someone would beat me to it, but you beat me to it 🙂 I was going to drop down at the tip of Manhattan island with a humungous stash of Lender’s frozen bagels (motto: “for frozen, they’re really pretty good”) and a solar powered toaster oven. Then, regardless of whatever economy develops, I will be in a position of great power and influence WAHAHA. I will also have the appropriate cabling to power a Playstation 2 or N64 for an hour at a time. But seriously, I’m not a real outdoorsy type of guy, so I would probably only want to visit Earth-2 rather than live there. “Animals run happy and free” is a great mental image but not one that draws me as a place to live, especially animals like Cave Bears that also want to live where I’d want to live and aren’t afraid to say so. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356/20 "2006-11-22T14:04:26Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] And you watch out for Moa & Giant marsupial predators! [/QUOTE] I plan to eat the Moas, just like last time. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-would-you-live-on-earth-2/381356.md?page=2)