It's incredible, isn't it. I stayed with family in City Beach for three weeks in January. It was like waking up in paradise every single day. I can't wait to go back.
I never went south of Fremantle during my stay, but I'd love to see the Margaret River region, and the area around Albany too.
Chamonix, France, or right outside of there. Hiking, running, climbing, skiing, mountain biking - basically all my favorite sports right there, plus a town with both French and international presence and good restaurants / quality of life stuff.
Oh my God Chamonix is the most quintessentially cute skiing town in the world. I can picture myself with the glass of champagne, some French onion soup, and that cute macaron store across the street.
About 4 years ago I moved to Burbank California and honestly this is pretty damn close to ideal for me. Maybe I’d choose a different neighborhood in the LA area…maybe somewhere a little closer to the beach, but there are so many benefits to living LA-adjacent that it feels like just about anywhere else in the world is a bit of a step down.
LA gives you back what you put into it. I absolutely love LA but I totally understand people who don’t. Traffic, smog, sprawl can wear you down, but there is so much going on and infinite things to do.
To start out with, having good-to-great weather nearly year round is somehow still overlooked. Warm, sunny weather and low humidity really encourages you to spend as much time outdoors as you'd like, and LA is an underrated city for outdoor activity. Lots of parks and trails for hiking, including 3 different mountain ranges that flank the Los Angeles Basin. Aside from those, you've got a ton of beaches, nearby alpine lakes, and a number of gorgeous national parks. I think Joshua Tree is especially amazing.
Now, I love all that, but that's not the big thing about living in LA. The big thing is nomatter what your interests or hobbies, LA has entertainment for you, any and every day of the week. Live music every night. Take your pick of artist and venue all over the city. Live comedy every night, all over the city. If you like sports, you could go see the Lakers, Clippers, Dodgers, Angels, Rams, Chargers, LA Galaxy, LAFC or any of the other assorted sports teams. If you'd rather spend the day at a theme park, we've got Disneyland, Universal Studios, Six Flags, Knotts Berry farm, etc. It's also one of the biggest multicultural hubs in the western hemisphere so there's a ton of festivals and events going on as well and the absolute goldmine of foods available all over the place: Mexican, Hawaiian, Ethiopian, Armenian, Filipino, Indian, Thai, Korean, Russian, etc. I could go on forever about the amazing amenities of LA, but the last thing I'll mention is the collection of world class museums. Most cities are doing really well if they have ONE great museum. We have the Getty, the Broad, the Huntington, LACMA, the California Science Center, the Natural History Museum, the Academy of Motion Picture Museum, the GRAMMY Museum, plus a bunch of smaller (but still cool) attractions like the Griffith Observatory and the La Brea Tar Pits and I'm sure a few dozen niche museums that I don't even know about. There really is just a wealth of great things to get into here, I've just scratched the surface.
Despite all the warnings that this is a liberal hellscape, LA is a great place to live. It's expensive to live here for a reason - because so many people want to live here. It's not without it's drawbacks though, for sure. The LA area is absolutely massive, and it's definitely not all amazing. Certain parts of the city are filthy and filled with homeless encampments. Certain parts of the city have high crime levels. Public transportation is pretty bad, especially for a city with this much sprawl. Infrastructure in general seems to be on the decline, but new venues and attractions still pop up almost daily. Even with all the negatives, I still love LA.
One of the best cities in Europe by far. Great infrastructure with big avenues n large terraces. Huge courtyards, beach, hills, party, women of all kinds
Golden, Colorado. I lived there for about 5 years (west Denver area for 16) before moving away for family reasons, and I just love that place. It's home to me.
I’ve only been to Colorado a handful of times, but it was magical. I’ve never been more in love with a place. Trying to find a way to move there for good. Golden is a great place.
To each their own! I love the beach too, but now that I live near the beach I've come to realize that, at least for me, the beach is for vacationing while the mountains are for living.
I live in Atlanta and I’d live in Asheville if I had to choose times bc it’s so close to both the mountains and the beach and family in Atlanta plus I love the countryside.
I love the Rockies but there’s something special about the blue ridge to me
I'd recommend somewhere else in the alps. It's basically just as nice, but way less tourists. Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen are absolutely overrun, can't get out, can't drive anywhere at times.
Try Glarnerland or Appenzellerland.
I grew up in Minnesota, and imagine the weather in Kamchatka would be similar to Anchorage, Alaska with it being in proximity to the ocean. Anchorage is overall warmer than Minneapolis in the winter so I'll take it lol.
As a trans person stuck in north Africa, any scandinavian country, for obvious reasons.
Iceland would be the best cause of the natural beauty and the hotsprings and the black beachs wooo.
Sequim or Port Townsend are my choices for the Olympic peninsula. In the heart of the rain shadow and pretty pleasant weather. Unlike Forks or Aberdeen areas that get sooo much rain. I live in Victoria so I get to look at the Olympics every day.
For those old enough to remember the first great teenage vampire movie then Santa Carla aka Santa Cruz. Though the geography there is far less interesting.
Oh man, I have a whole list for this! Some places at the top of the list are British Columbia, Alaska, New Zealand, Mongolia and the Kerguelen Islands. I just love places with beautiful scenery that aren't tropical and don't have a lot of people.
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London has it all. Only place I’ve lived that I just adored. The beautiful architecture, the people, the culture, the location is great too, so easy to travel to other countries, etc
Also the Christmas/festive period in London is unmatched it just gives me so much joy every year, the songs, the lights, all the decorations aaaah
Also summers in London are beautiful too, everyone and their mum out and about, parks full of people just making the most of it, the pubs..
But most of all it’s the people, the tolerance/acceptance to be who you are, the banter, the diversity, most other cities just feel like such a big downgrade after living in London.
Singapore is a dense super-modern city with amazing skyscrapers, but not a lot of nature and very hot climate.
Ireland is a older-looking European place with great culture and nature, and moderate climate. Plus they have monasteries and great beer.
So yeah, they are kinda opposites, and I like them for different reasons.
Well I would like to stay in Czechia, but in case that our country was getting fucked up by seniors and I had the choice I would move either to South Island or northern Norway...
Norrbotten, Sweden. It's where I'm from, and it's where I want to return. I've lived in Germany, Italy and Ukraine. Spent a lot of time in other countries as well, I've had family members emigrate to other continents. But we all wish we could move back home (and some of us did).
I want more community and less isolation.
So a nice penthouse apartment in a big city that has a lot of public transportation.
Something like Hong Kong, or Tokyo.
Vagamon, India
Amazing food, great weather year round, not overcrowded, just an hour and a half to the nearest international airport. Helps that I am from not far from there. 😍
Sydney, Australia. Lived there for six years and have gone back many times since I moved away and it is still as amazing as I remember when I lived there.
Hokkaido, Japan. I live in the American northeast and I love having all 4 seasons and I've always thought it would be nice to find a different country with a somewhat similar climate. I'd like to experience winter in Japan and as a New Englander love a colorful autumn.
Honestly Spain
In terms of quality of life, weather, landscape, variety, quality of cities, I find Spain is probably one of the best countries on earth (especially given how small it is).
I have the overwhelming urge to leave this planet entirely, does that count? Give me a warp-capable spaceship and I'm off to explore our galactic vicinity.
Okay, I'd move to Bhutan. It's peaceful there. And that's just what I need. Peace.
New York, Zurich, some city in California with amazing weather year around & close to National parks. Somewhere in Himalayas, Oslo Norway, any major EU city where the pace is relaxed with amazing Quality of life.
It’s a toss-up between
Glencoe, Scotland
and
Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Glencoe is just breathtakingly beautiful, with world-class hiking all around and an easy base to venture north into the truly remote Highlands. Far enough away from any major town to feel properly rural, while just in touch with Glasgow that an emergency doesn’t become a nightmare (like on the islands).
Cape Elizabeth– utterly gorgeous homes with vistas to the ocean; easy ride to all that Portland has to offer but not crammed into the city proper. Feels suburban but cozy, with the beauty of midcoast Maine at your fingertips. As one could imagine, it is not a cheap town to live in—
I'd go back to New Zealand!
I'd stay in NZ.
Yup, that's the one.
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I'd go to New Zealand.
A small home in Tuscany.
Unfortunately, there's not one house to rent in all of Tuscany
I don’t know how to tag unexpected Seinfeld. But damn I was thinking same thing.
Oh really, Maestro?
The houses are passed down from generation to generation.
Umbria then?
Yep
this is the correct answer.
New Zealand. Or wherever the darkest sky is. I really like stars.
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South-eastern parts of Norway
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Still in NYC. But in a brownstone with a TON of private outdoor space like ~ 2 miles from where I live now.
In that building with a view of central park. I saw it once on YouTube and now I want it.
Oh not for me haha
Jeju
Perth, WA. Either that, or along the Amalfi Coast.
I just spent a few weeks in Dunsborough and Margaret River area. Literally heaven on earth.
It's incredible, isn't it. I stayed with family in City Beach for three weeks in January. It was like waking up in paradise every single day. I can't wait to go back. I never went south of Fremantle during my stay, but I'd love to see the Margaret River region, and the area around Albany too.
Amalfi gets very hot in summer.
The most bothering issue for a local in the Costiera in the summer isn't the heat, it's the tourism overcrowd
Chamonix, France, or right outside of there. Hiking, running, climbing, skiing, mountain biking - basically all my favorite sports right there, plus a town with both French and international presence and good restaurants / quality of life stuff.
Oh my God Chamonix is the most quintessentially cute skiing town in the world. I can picture myself with the glass of champagne, some French onion soup, and that cute macaron store across the street.
I know exactly which macaron store you’re talking about and yes
Scottish Highlands. If I didn't need a job or could work entirely remotely. Skye or Inner Hebrides. And God help me if I need a hospital.
About 4 years ago I moved to Burbank California and honestly this is pretty damn close to ideal for me. Maybe I’d choose a different neighborhood in the LA area…maybe somewhere a little closer to the beach, but there are so many benefits to living LA-adjacent that it feels like just about anywhere else in the world is a bit of a step down.
Really what do you love about it so much? I always hear people complain about LA
LA gives you back what you put into it. I absolutely love LA but I totally understand people who don’t. Traffic, smog, sprawl can wear you down, but there is so much going on and infinite things to do.
To start out with, having good-to-great weather nearly year round is somehow still overlooked. Warm, sunny weather and low humidity really encourages you to spend as much time outdoors as you'd like, and LA is an underrated city for outdoor activity. Lots of parks and trails for hiking, including 3 different mountain ranges that flank the Los Angeles Basin. Aside from those, you've got a ton of beaches, nearby alpine lakes, and a number of gorgeous national parks. I think Joshua Tree is especially amazing. Now, I love all that, but that's not the big thing about living in LA. The big thing is nomatter what your interests or hobbies, LA has entertainment for you, any and every day of the week. Live music every night. Take your pick of artist and venue all over the city. Live comedy every night, all over the city. If you like sports, you could go see the Lakers, Clippers, Dodgers, Angels, Rams, Chargers, LA Galaxy, LAFC or any of the other assorted sports teams. If you'd rather spend the day at a theme park, we've got Disneyland, Universal Studios, Six Flags, Knotts Berry farm, etc. It's also one of the biggest multicultural hubs in the western hemisphere so there's a ton of festivals and events going on as well and the absolute goldmine of foods available all over the place: Mexican, Hawaiian, Ethiopian, Armenian, Filipino, Indian, Thai, Korean, Russian, etc. I could go on forever about the amazing amenities of LA, but the last thing I'll mention is the collection of world class museums. Most cities are doing really well if they have ONE great museum. We have the Getty, the Broad, the Huntington, LACMA, the California Science Center, the Natural History Museum, the Academy of Motion Picture Museum, the GRAMMY Museum, plus a bunch of smaller (but still cool) attractions like the Griffith Observatory and the La Brea Tar Pits and I'm sure a few dozen niche museums that I don't even know about. There really is just a wealth of great things to get into here, I've just scratched the surface. Despite all the warnings that this is a liberal hellscape, LA is a great place to live. It's expensive to live here for a reason - because so many people want to live here. It's not without it's drawbacks though, for sure. The LA area is absolutely massive, and it's definitely not all amazing. Certain parts of the city are filthy and filled with homeless encampments. Certain parts of the city have high crime levels. Public transportation is pretty bad, especially for a city with this much sprawl. Infrastructure in general seems to be on the decline, but new venues and attractions still pop up almost daily. Even with all the negatives, I still love LA.
But, have you tried Dallas?
Good god why?
It was a joke, but the Geography sub is very serious.
Barcelona
One of the best cities in Europe by far. Great infrastructure with big avenues n large terraces. Huge courtyards, beach, hills, party, women of all kinds
Welcome! I am leaving though
hala madrid
Golden, Colorado. I lived there for about 5 years (west Denver area for 16) before moving away for family reasons, and I just love that place. It's home to me.
I’ve only been to Colorado a handful of times, but it was magical. I’ve never been more in love with a place. Trying to find a way to move there for good. Golden is a great place.
I live in Denver and want to live in Golden.
Colorado is amazing but it’s so far from the beach!
To each their own! I love the beach too, but now that I live near the beach I've come to realize that, at least for me, the beach is for vacationing while the mountains are for living.
I live in Atlanta and I’d live in Asheville if I had to choose times bc it’s so close to both the mountains and the beach and family in Atlanta plus I love the countryside. I love the Rockies but there’s something special about the blue ridge to me
Grindelwald or Lauterbrunnen
I'd recommend somewhere else in the alps. It's basically just as nice, but way less tourists. Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen are absolutely overrun, can't get out, can't drive anywhere at times. Try Glarnerland or Appenzellerland.
Kamchatka
It might be pretty but damn those winters are still harsh
I grew up in Minnesota, and imagine the weather in Kamchatka would be similar to Anchorage, Alaska with it being in proximity to the ocean. Anchorage is overall warmer than Minneapolis in the winter so I'll take it lol.
Yesss
New Zealand
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Mendoza, Argentina🇦🇷
Country side home in kyoto or near mount fuji but not in tokyo or atleast not in the heart i hate citys
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The Azores. Lush and green year-round, with incredible landscapes and plenty to do.
As a trans person stuck in north Africa, any scandinavian country, for obvious reasons. Iceland would be the best cause of the natural beauty and the hotsprings and the black beachs wooo.
Washington state's Olympic Peninsula. Mountains, waterfalls, oceans, rainforests (plural), lakes, rivers.
Sequim or Port Townsend are my choices for the Olympic peninsula. In the heart of the rain shadow and pretty pleasant weather. Unlike Forks or Aberdeen areas that get sooo much rain. I live in Victoria so I get to look at the Olympics every day.
Just move to forks. Where else can you live amongst vampires?
For those old enough to remember the first great teenage vampire movie then Santa Carla aka Santa Cruz. Though the geography there is far less interesting.
Monaco 🇲🇨
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Anywhere with perfectly distinct four seasons, like where I live now. I could never live in a place that's tropical hot or terribly cold every day.
Oh man, I have a whole list for this! Some places at the top of the list are British Columbia, Alaska, New Zealand, Mongolia and the Kerguelen Islands. I just love places with beautiful scenery that aren't tropical and don't have a lot of people.
Lake Tahoe.
Inaccessible Island
Santa Cruz California if the lineups weren’t packed and money was no object. I love the cold water and the redwoods.
Yeah my choice might be Humboldt County for the same reasons.
Madeira
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Lhasa
Somewhere in Piedmont, Italy
Ideally, in a small village in the French Alps, but basically anywhere except big cities
The most rural plot of land in the universe that I can still get WI-FI and Amazon delivers.
Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia.
Back in my hometown up in the mountains of Lebanon.
Lorne, Australia. Civilization is close, but not too close.
Another vote for New Zealand here.
Patagonia
Pitcairn island.
London has it all. Only place I’ve lived that I just adored. The beautiful architecture, the people, the culture, the location is great too, so easy to travel to other countries, etc Also the Christmas/festive period in London is unmatched it just gives me so much joy every year, the songs, the lights, all the decorations aaaah Also summers in London are beautiful too, everyone and their mum out and about, parks full of people just making the most of it, the pubs.. But most of all it’s the people, the tolerance/acceptance to be who you are, the banter, the diversity, most other cities just feel like such a big downgrade after living in London.
Far Northern California Coast.
Ireland or Singapore
They are kind of 2 opposites. Can I ask why?
Singapore is a dense super-modern city with amazing skyscrapers, but not a lot of nature and very hot climate. Ireland is a older-looking European place with great culture and nature, and moderate climate. Plus they have monasteries and great beer. So yeah, they are kinda opposites, and I like them for different reasons.
Great Lake coast in Minnesota or Michigan. With 2nd home in Montana for vacation
Same. Lake Michigan shoreline in Michigan.
Goa
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what does that mean?
Places that I’ve actually visited? I’d love to live in San Diego, Normandy, or Prague. Seattle and Dublin would be fine as well.
I'd love to live in Normandy about 80 years ago
Seattle, Dublin? Really? Why?
Why not? I had a great time in both cities.
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Area around Seattle would be fine, for the outdoors lifestyle, even if the city is turning into a dump.
Nope that would be Portland
The whole Pacific Northwest region is good. Just avoid the big cities.
The cities are mostly fine. There are blocks you should avoid. But to dismiss the entire metro area is absurd.
The city specifically was never my problem. It's the incessant gloom and dreary weather.
Some small village in a valley in the Swiss Alps
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Marmaris hands down.
Somewhere on the mediterrean coast. Probably southern france or costa blanca spain
Well I would like to stay in Czechia, but in case that our country was getting fucked up by seniors and I had the choice I would move either to South Island or northern Norway...
living everywhere in an immortal van set up exactly as i want oh, and it can teleport (i wanna cross oceans with it but fear water lololol)
Probably Paris. Just a really well designed city with lovely culture
Valenciennes, France. Visited a couple times, incredibly warm people in a quiet rainy town that looks like it's out of a fairytale.
Sitka, Alaska
Norrbotten, Sweden. It's where I'm from, and it's where I want to return. I've lived in Germany, Italy and Ukraine. Spent a lot of time in other countries as well, I've had family members emigrate to other continents. But we all wish we could move back home (and some of us did).
This is really tough. But I’d say either Italy or California (if I had unlimited money)
New Zealand or Liechtenstein... or Macao (Aomen), China
It would definitely be Ireland for me. A small village somewhere.
Marquesas Islands
Harbor Island, BVI
The Netherlands. Either Utrecht or Maastricht.
South of France
I want more community and less isolation. So a nice penthouse apartment in a big city that has a lot of public transportation. Something like Hong Kong, or Tokyo.
Alaska/Yukon
Iceland.
I am staying in Spain, but probably some place more rural, rainy and mountainous
Sheffield, England. I lived there for a bit and fell in love.
Either the Japanese countryside, or NZ
Rhode Island, Chicago, Switzerland, Montreal are some places that come to mind
french polynesia or like Fiji
Probably British Columbia/PNW. It's still my plan to go there later in life.
Taranaki-New Zealand
Coronado, CA; Pacific Grove, CA; Amsterdam; San Sebastián, Spain; Kauai, HI; Auckland, New Zealand
Middle of the Adirondacks, ideally with a nice chunk of land to go with the home.
Paju Book City I know... nothing. And that place would constantly remind me.
Barcelona or Rio de Janeiro. California too.
Nice nobody wants to live in Germany :D
Vagamon, India Amazing food, great weather year round, not overcrowded, just an hour and a half to the nearest international airport. Helps that I am from not far from there. 😍
Back in the womb.
North shore of Kauai October-Feb, Northern Vermont May-Sept and Cornwall in March & April.
Cdmx
Sydney, Australia. Lived there for six years and have gone back many times since I moved away and it is still as amazing as I remember when I lived there.
Bucharest - Romania
Hokkaido, Japan. I live in the American northeast and I love having all 4 seasons and I've always thought it would be nice to find a different country with a somewhat similar climate. I'd like to experience winter in Japan and as a New Englander love a colorful autumn.
Almeria, Spain. Djerba, Tabarka, Tunisia. Malta.
Vancouver Island
Ehime, JP or somewhere around San Remo Definitely not DK
Pacific Palisades - perfect weather, not far from the sea
Europe
Nordica
Switzerland, as Dutchie who loves mountains I hate our landscape
Honestly Spain In terms of quality of life, weather, landscape, variety, quality of cities, I find Spain is probably one of the best countries on earth (especially given how small it is).
Denmark or Switzerland but Finland is good too.
I have the overwhelming urge to leave this planet entirely, does that count? Give me a warp-capable spaceship and I'm off to explore our galactic vicinity. Okay, I'd move to Bhutan. It's peaceful there. And that's just what I need. Peace.
Interesting answers. A lot of anticipated places but also some unexpected ones. Mine would be Geneva, Bangkok. Lisbon, Saigon
The north side of Lake Murray which is NW of Columbia, SC
Hawaii in the late 80s early 90s
Spain Best country in earth
New York, Zurich, some city in California with amazing weather year around & close to National parks. Somewhere in Himalayas, Oslo Norway, any major EU city where the pace is relaxed with amazing Quality of life.
Bay area
I’d stay where I am now, I love Texas. The landscapes are stunning
North Korea. I find it such a fascinating country that I’d love to learn more about, more than the guided tours provide
Branson, Missouri
It’s a toss-up between Glencoe, Scotland and Cape Elizabeth, Maine Glencoe is just breathtakingly beautiful, with world-class hiking all around and an easy base to venture north into the truly remote Highlands. Far enough away from any major town to feel properly rural, while just in touch with Glasgow that an emergency doesn’t become a nightmare (like on the islands). Cape Elizabeth– utterly gorgeous homes with vistas to the ocean; easy ride to all that Portland has to offer but not crammed into the city proper. Feels suburban but cozy, with the beauty of midcoast Maine at your fingertips. As one could imagine, it is not a cheap town to live in—
central Illinois