I love where I live - NW NJ…Morris county.
Rural (5 acres), but I can be on Broadway in 50 minutes.
VCNJ~
I currently live in the Youngstown, Ohio area.
I don’t love it here, but I don’t actively hate it, like I did the Atlanta area. I moved here for a job, and I expect to move on in a few years. Not because I don’t like the job, but because this isn’t where I want to be for the rest of my life.
Where would I like to live? I used to think that I wanted nothing more than to move back to Maine(where I went to college). I don’t necessarily still think that.
I figure either someplace around Boston, D.C. or heading west for my next location - Oregon or Washington would be nice. I could go back south too.
Basically, I haven’t found “home” yet, but I plan to keep looking.
I live in Thunder Bay, Ontario, which is a small city on the North Shore of Lake Superior. The rugged North Shore is wonderfully beautiful, and mostly uninhabited, so it makes for amazing paddling. I very much enjoy living here.
Current location: Southfields SW London (it’s where the “Wimbledon” tennis tournament is held). It’s nice enough, apart from the two weeks the tennis is on when it gets very crowded.
I need to have easy access to Central London for my job, and my wife has a similar requirement, so we are stuck with commutable distances from there.
However we are planning to move a few miles down the road (and up-market) to Wimbledon Village - the home of the legendary Wombles. Which is basically a moer expensive and up-market version of where we are now.
If money were no object I would go to Kew or Richmond, and if I didn’t need to work to Winchester or Bath (or thereabouts). Maybe one day?
Mostly I do. There is a paper factory near me, and it lets out some terrible smells, but if it were gone, I’d be pretty content.
I live in Troy, NY, which is near Albany, the state capital. I really like the Capital Region. It’s got a small city feel with suburban and rural areas within short driving distances so you can live in whatever type of environment suits you. It’s also only about 3 hours from NYC and Boston so when you want to go to the Big City, it’s easy enough to do. I love cross-country skiing and snowshoeing and (usually though not this year) there’s plenty of winter for that. The summers are not too hot, which is nice.
Although parts of Troy are run down, and it doesn’t have the best reputation, it’s got some gorgeous architecture from the 1800s when it was a wealthy city. The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall has some great - and inexpensive - concerts, and it’s considered one of the most accoustically perfect music halls in the world. I think the city’s poised for a comeback. Some of the beautiful old buildings downtown are being converted to lofts, and it’s going to become trendy to live there. And then I’ll be able to look down my nose at all the new comers.
I would like to have the opportunity to live in Europe for a year or so at some point, but I think this area will always be home.
NW London, Hendon. The burbs it is. I like it, as its quiet (house backs on to a Park), but since random wanker chosen by Landlady moved in last year, I spend as little time there as possible. Its a ballache if you want any food/cigs/beer past 7pm too, there are literally no shops open around mine.
Moving to Walthamstow soon anyways.
As for London itself, I love it. Everything I want and more, compared to my hometown.
Karachi, Pakistan.
Pro:
Nice, moderate weather (between 35 and 15 degrees Celcius), summers are sometimes a bit hot.
Cons:
Nothing to do, except go to the beach.
Horrible traffic.
I’d love to live at different places in the world for two years each…
I live in Toronto, Ontario, and specifically in the Beaches. We moved a whole main street south last summer, and now live on a Yuppie commerical street. I like it okay, in spite of the thousands of yoga-mat-carrying women with two strollers, a golden Lab, and a latte.
I like Toronto. I don’t drive, and I like living in a city that is walkable and has good public transportation. I also really like the diverse multiculturalism. It’s fun to tootle off to a neighborhood and spend the day walking around feeling like you’re in Korea, or India, or Italy- and being able to walk from one into another. I love multi-ethnic grocery stores, and interesting restaurants.
I’m comfortable here. We’ve thought of moving up to Ottawa when we have kids, because it’s a smaller, safer city etc., and we might, but for now I’m happy.
I live about 40 miles west of Chicago, Illinois. It’s a town that started out as a city, then slowly devolved into suburban sprawl. I hate the weather; we have extremes, hot and sticky in the summer and brutally cold in the winter. I’ve lived in the Chicago area my whole life, so I suppose I should be used to it.
Advantages: while I live in a subdivision, my house backs up to the woods and a protected creek that ensures nothing will be built behind us. If you’re in my backyard, you feel like you’re in the middle of nowhere. We’re close enough to Chicago that all its cultural offerings are reasonably accessible. The area is ethnically mixed, so my kid isn’t being raised in a white-bread world with no exposure to other cultures. Because of recent development, everything’s pretty convenient - grocery shopping, doctors, restaurants, etc. City services are pretty decent.
Disadvantages: the aforementioned suburban sprawl means nothing is really close enough to walk to, and it’s typically ugly (strip malls all down the two main roads.) The public school system is a mess - too big to be effective and too financially screwed up.
My husband grew up in this town, and his parents are here (and becoming quite dependent as they age.) I grew up moving all over the place and never had “roots” until I moved in with him. I like that my kid has roots, too. My mom and two of my sibs are in the area, but another sib has moved to Tennessee and Mom’s making noises about retiring to the south or the southwest. On one hand I like being settled in one place; on the other hand, I’d like to be somewhere the weather is less ridiculous.
I live in north Atlanta right now (Alpharetta specifically), and while we have a nice house and good weather, I would give it up in a heartbeat to be able to move back to Maine or New Hampshire. The lack of crime, lack of traffic, and lack of hustle and bustle have had me longing to go back for as long as I can remember.
Unfortunately, with my calling in IT and with the utter lack of IT jobs in those two states, I do not see myself going back anytime soon. Most frustrating is that I want to get there before my son is of school age so he can get a better education than what is offered here. 
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada…I love being Canadian - after all, we’re so polite!!! We are very well accepted when we travel; we have four great seasons and we’re tough enough to get through them; overall, it’s a great country!!!
If I could live part of the year elsewhere: the dales in England (I read all of James Herriott and would love to see the Dales and the pubs in the them, of course!); the heather growing wild in Ireland; the island where my hubby’s favourite scotch comes from 'cause it smells so good (Islay); a very small town in Mexico where the people and the food are wonderful; and the north atlantic ocean in a storm (safety on shore somewhere of course).
No, this is the Isle of Man in Asia, where Dopers and chess are illegal.
[sub]Joking, obviously. It would be interesting to meet another doper 
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I live in Oakland. Never, ever move to Oakland. It sucks, mostly for the reason that its inhabitants completely disrespect their own city. Its really dirty and crime is high. My car has been broken into twice. People dump their trash randomly on the street and sidewalks and they piss everywhere, not to mention there are crackheads and wanna-be gangsters everywhere.
I’d love to live in Paris. My gods, what a beautiful city. Or Edinburgh, which is my home away from home (if a bit dark and chilly.) Or Munich, Germany which is another beautiful city even if the southern accent they have there is funny. Or maybe Hamburg.
Yeah, but I’d move anywhere to get out of Oakland. Luckily I’ll be doing that in about six weeks.
I live in Glens Falls, NY (the setting for “The Last of the Mohicans”), located 5 minutes from this wonderful lake, which is 32 miles long and goes from Fort William Henry to Fort Ticonderoga.
We are midway between New York City and Montreal. About 20 minutes West of Vermont and 15 minutes North of Saratoga Springs. We are right at the entrance to Adirondack Park. It’s very snowy but also very beautiful and Autumn is absolutely glorious.
I’ll let you know if I enter the tournament!
Great Pacific Northwest.
Pro: Like the people. Coffee is the bean of the gods.
Con: People get heatstroke if the thermometer gets anywhere near 70 freakin’ F! Honey, it ain’t freakin’ hot until it’s triple-degree. 70F is just barely human-livable, thankyakindly. (Not to mention the cost of living. $4 for a box of cereal? :eek: )
If I could get a summer where I actually break a sweat stepping outside, I’d be happy. Unfortunately, that’s typically the South. And much as I love its history and weather, the current political climate makes me uninterested in moving away from the West Coast.
Denver, CO.
Like it fine. No earthquakes or tsunamis. Day to day life is much more laid back than Seattle. Pretty even in the winter. I’d much rather live in Western Colorado–much more rural, more snow, more hills–wild bliss. 'course, not a lot to do over there for income which is why I stay within sight of the Evil Flatlands of Kansas.
I live in Northern Nevada, Sparks, to be exact. I like it here a lot. I like the mountain views, Lake Tahoe, and the (usually) mild climate.
I’m originally from Toledo, OH, but I haven’t lived there in 20+ years. Sparks is much, much better than there.
However, I’ve been dreaming of living in California, on the coast. I love the ocean and would love to take my morning bike ride along the Pacific. I’d like to live somewhere between Santa Cruz and San Juan Capistrano.
Why don’t I move there?
The cost of living is so much higher in California. I could never afford the lifestyle I have here. I also know, I would hate the traffic and the smog. And, well, the truth is, Californians are leaving California in droves and moving to Nevada. So maybe I have it better than I thought.
Chicago Suburbs.
I agree with LifeOnWry about the crappy weather. You get two weeks of nice weather in spring, two in fall. That’s about it.
I would also complain about the traffic, but I promised myself I wouldn’t anymore after going to Orange County for a couple of weeks on business.
Chicago downtown is always a blast to go to.
I would probably move back to Dallas given the chance. Maybe Austin, TX.
Gotta go where the jobs are!