# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/21 "2009-07-13T23:11:01Z")
churchill manitoba, or newport ri. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/22 "2009-07-13T23:11:27Z")
Stockholm! ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/23 "2009-07-13T23:45:06Z")
New Orleans. ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/24 "2009-07-13T23:47:45Z")
Already done it, Seoul, South Korea. If I could, I would go back there. SSG Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/25 "2009-07-14T01:14:45Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Fredericton, New Brunswick. I loved that place. Wow. I’ll check it out. I live in Canada now, and am considering relocating within the country. ---
**Author:** ![jacob\_wrestling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/76d3ee/32.png) [@jacob\_wrestling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacob_wrestling)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/26 "2009-07-14T01:24:20Z")
Paris. The most beautiful city on earth. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Shroud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@The\_Shroud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Shroud)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/27 "2009-07-14T02:22:21Z")
Since I’ve been in my dream city of NY for 3 years, I’ll have to say Paris. But I gotta say, work sucks most of the fun out of it. Can I just go sit by the Seine and draw pictures? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/28 "2009-07-14T02:35:59Z")
I’d love to go to Japan, New Zealand, or Finland. Also, British Columbia. Of these, I have already been to Helsinki and BC, so I can say I want to go _back_. ---
**Author:** ![snailboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/97f17d/32.png) [@snailboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snailboy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/29 "2009-07-14T02:36:37Z")
Antarctica. How many people can say they’ve lived there? I don’t know if I’d want to stay through the winter though. A more feasible place that I’d love to move to would be Seattle. This may actually happen some day, when I get a good opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/30 "2009-07-14T02:42:24Z")
Edinburgh, or ideally, somewhere in the British countryside. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/31 "2009-07-14T02:47:34Z")
New Zealand. I’ve been a couple of times and loved every minute. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/32 "2009-07-14T04:39:42Z")
I’d love to go back to Vancouver for a year. If it had to be somewhere new, then probably London. ---
**Author:** ![King\_Bobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@King\_Bobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Bobo)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/33 "2009-07-14T04:54:00Z")
I have lived and worked in Caracas, Venezuela - pre Hugo Chavez. If the country were ever to return to the way it was, to my mind it is probably the most beautiful place in the world. I would return to Caracas (pre-Hugo) in a heart beat. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/34 "2009-07-14T05:02:24Z")
Costa Rica might be my choice just because of a combination of things. I could go for Antarctica as well just because of the shear novelty factor. I have been to Paris several times and loved it but I don’t know if I could live there although New York City would rank way below as well as London. There is not much wrong with those places but I am not a big city kind of person. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/35 "2009-07-14T06:08:05Z")
Florida Keys. I haven’t been there before but just browsing the real estate listings there, and checking out the topography, I think I’d like it a lot. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/36 "2009-07-14T16:57:12Z")
Greece. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/37 "2009-07-14T17:40:55Z")
Barrington, RI. ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/38 "2009-07-14T18:54:45Z")
London , England ---
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/39 "2009-07-14T19:33:15Z")
London, Paris, Berlin. Haven’t been to Tokyo, but if the opportunity popped up, I’d jump on it. ---
**Author:** ![Never\_Say\_Dice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee59a6/32.png) [@Never\_Say\_Dice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Never_Say_Dice)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-live-and-work-anywhere-in-the-world-for-a-year-where-would-you-go/502846/40 "2009-07-14T20:03:01Z")
I would go back to South Africa. It was quite an experience. A year may be a bit long but six months would be great. A lot of different cultures in one place but you can go home and be among English speakers and British- and Dutch-ancestry who are happy to make friends with people from other countries. [Previous 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=1) [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=3)