# You Can Live And Work Anywhere In The World For A Year: Where Would You Go? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 13, 2009, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846 "2009-07-13T07:58:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/1 "2009-07-13T07:58:01Z")
Assuming you got a great job and could live and work anywhere in the world, where would you go? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/2 "2009-07-13T08:43:38Z")
Istanbul or Singapore. ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/3 "2009-07-13T09:20:19Z")
The first thing that comes to mind is New York City. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/4 "2009-07-13T09:45:34Z")
It wasn’t a great job, but it was in Ankara. I think Istanbul would have been more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/5 "2009-07-13T11:59:31Z")
London, Istanbul, or Cartagena, Colombia, I think. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/6 "2009-07-13T12:04:50Z")
Rio de Janeiro Not sure how the summer would be; I was only there in summer (i.e. January) once, and it was _hot_. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/7 "2009-07-13T12:33:30Z")
Apperantly Michigan’s UP. I can live & work wherever I want, and this is where I am. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/8 "2009-07-13T12:39:51Z")
Hawai. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/9 "2009-07-13T13:07:30Z")
London, definitely. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/10 "2009-07-13T13:10:51Z")
Tuscany ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/11 "2009-07-13T13:12:34Z")
Maranello, Italy. Wouldn’t mind even some menial job at a little ol’ employer called Ferrari S.p.A ! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/12 "2009-07-13T13:23:51Z")
Lots places, and I usually have lots of opportunities, as long as my company does business there. Ghent, Belgium comes to mind as a place I’d love to spend a year, although my company may stop doing business there. I’d also love to go back to Mexico for a year, just not to Mexico City. Oh, wait, guess where I’m going for a year next month? Oh well, still better than border towns, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/13 "2009-07-13T13:30:54Z")
Either Edinburgh (I’m planning on it) or, if I could get all the relatives I have there shipped to the South Pole without parkas, Barcelona. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/14 "2009-07-13T18:43:05Z")
I’d love to move back to Tokyo. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/15 "2009-07-13T19:27:05Z")
I’ve never been to Tokyo, but it would be my choice too. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/16 "2009-07-13T19:29:40Z")
Pottsville, Australia. A friend is there. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/17 "2009-07-13T19:46:50Z")
Paris. It’s where I am right now (for the 4th time), and it’s the hardest place in the world to leave. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/18 "2009-07-13T20:06:04Z")
Fredericton, New Brunswick. I loved that place. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/19 "2009-07-13T23:07:21Z")
Either Auckland or Wellington, NZ. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/20 "2009-07-13T23:08:25Z")
Yep, New Zealand. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846.md?page=2)